Maria Jeritza was the Helena (from a performance in Dresden that year)

Birthday anniversaries of bass Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (1920)
baritone Renato Capecchi (1923)
mezzo-soprano Beverly Wolff (1928)
and countertenor James Bowman (1941)

Happy 84th birthday tenor Eberhart Büchner
Happy 80th birthday mezzo-soprano Nadine Denize