On this day in 1977 Alban Berg‘s Lulu premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in the as-yet incomplete 2 act version.

Birthday anniversaries of composers Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844) and Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882), soprano Ofelia Nieto (1900) and basses John Maccurdy (1929) and Jules Bastin (1933).