On this day in 1955 conductor Rudolf Kempe made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Tannhäuser.

Today the premiere performance anniversaries of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte (1790, Vienna), Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier (1911, Dresden) and Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites (1957, Milan)

Birthday anniversary of mezzo-soprano Frances Bible (1927).

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