On this day in 2002 the Metropolitan Opera presented its premiere of Wolf-Ferrari’s Sly.

Birthday anniversaries of writer Antoine Francois Prevost (1697); composers Ferruccio Busoni (1866), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873) and William Bergsma (1921); tenor/baritone Renato Zanelli (1892); director and administrator Günther Rennert (1911) and tenor Hermin Esser (1928).