Birthday anniversaries of conductor Antonino Votto (1896)
and soprano Käthe Heidersbach (1897)

Happy 77th birthday countertenor and conductor René Jacobs
Happy 68th birthday baritone François Le Roux

Three Broadway Premieres:
In 1940, Cole Porter’s Panama Hattie
In 1949, Kurt Weil and Maxwell Anderson‘s Lost in the Stars
In 2003, Stephen Schwartz‘s Wicked