Tenor Peter Pears and baritone John Shirley-Quirk made their debuts.

Three Broadway Openings on this day:
Bock/Harnick’s The Apple Tree (Barbara Harris, Alan Alda and Larry Blyden) in 1966;
Ahrens/Flaherty‘s Once on This Island in 1990 and
the ABBA musical Mamma Mia in 2001.

Birthday anniversaries of composer Baldassare Galuppi (1706)
actress and singer Lotte Lenya (1898)
conductor Otto Ackermann (1909)
tenor Alexander Young (1920)
sopranos Camilla Williams (1922)
and Berit Lindholm (1934)
and baritone Barry McDaniel (1930)

Happy 86th birthday soprano Catarina Ligendza

Happy 78th birthday tenor Henry Price

Happy 76th birthday soprano Margarita Castro Alberty