Happy 57th birthday mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova.

On this day in 1791 Cherubini’s Lodoiska premiered in Paris.

Birthday anniversaries of composer Giovanni Bononcini (1670); mezzo-soprano and composer Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821)l conductors Kurt Masur and Carlo Franci (both 1927); and baritone Yury Mazurok (1931).

Happy 68th birthday composer Tobias Picker.