On this day in 1992 soprano Deborah Polaski made her Met debut as Kundry.

Born on this day in 1847 composer Francesco Paolo Tosti.

Birthday anniversaries of tenor Julius Patzak (1898); singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson (1898); conductor Antal Dorati (1906); mezzo-soprano/contralto Cloe Elmo (1910) and bass-baritone Claudio Desderi (1943).