On this day in 1972 conductor Henry Lewis made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting La bohème on what was his 40th birthday.

Birthday anniversaries of writers Oscar Wilde (1854) and Eugene O’Neill (1888)

bass Guus Hoekman and baritone Gino Bechi (both in 1913)

and mezzo-soprano Margreta Elkins (1930 or 1932)

Happy 93rd birthday conductor James Lockhart