On this day in 1893 Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel premiered in Weimar.

Born on this day in 1946 soprano Edita Gruberova.

Born on this day librettist Ranieri de’Calzabigi (1714), composer Rafael Calleja (1874), baritone Karl Schmitt-Walter (1900), basses Josef Greindl (1912) and Alexander Filippovich Vedernikov (1927)
and conductor Claudio Scimone (1934).

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