"I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is"

On this day in 1855 Verdi’s Les vêpres siciliennes premiered in Paris

Birthday anniversaries of soprano Anna Báthy (1901), conductor Oliviero De Fabritiis (1902) and tenor Kurt Equiluz (1929).

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