Birthday anniversaries of playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898), mezzo-soprano Gianna Pederzini (1900), soprano Maria Cebotari (1910), conductor Henry Krips (1912) and bass Cesare Siepi (1923).
Love for music
Happy 96th birthday soprano Leontyne Price.
Premieres of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffman in Paris (1881), Rimski-Korsakov’s Snegurochka in St Petersburg (1882) and Howard Hanson’s Merry Mount in New York City (1934).
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