Happy 60th birthday tenor Roberto Alagna.

On this day in 1945 Britten’s Peter Grimes premiered at Sadlers Wells Theatre in London.

Birthday anniversaries of conductor George Szell (1897), soprano Margaret Ritchie (1903), tenor Mario Filippeschi (1907), conductor, director and teacher Boris Goldovsky (1908), soprano Margherita Carosio, (1908), set designer Gunther Schneider-Siemssen (1926) and tenor Andrea Velis (1927).

Happy 56th birthday soprano Patrizia Ciofi.