Birgit Nilsson, Carlo Bergonzi, Irene Dalis, Mario Sereni and Katherine Dunham‘s choreography.

On this day in 1961 Frank Loesser‘s musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying opens on Broadway with Robert Morse, Charles Nelson Reilly and Rudy Vallee.

Birthday anniversaries of composers Heinrich Schütz (1585) and José Serrano (1873), composer and conductor Alexander Zemlinsky (1871), soprano Ellen Faull (1918), tenor Enrico di Giuseppe (1932), and composer Kaija Saariaho (1952)