On this day in 1959 mezzo-soprano Giulietta Simionato made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Azucena.
Birthday anniversaries of sopranos Giuditta Pasta (1797) and Tiana Lemnitz (1897); singer Mahalia Jackson (1911).
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