Happy 64th birthday mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore.

On this day in 1868 Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg premiered in Munich.

Birthday anniversaries of conductor Hermann Scherchen (1891), mezzo-soprano Larisa Avdeyeva (1925) and soprano Judith Raskin (1928).

Happy 75th birthday soprano Lucy Peacock.

Happy Pride Month to countertenor David Daniels and husband Scott Walters.