On this day in 1951 Benjamin Britten‘s Billy Budd premiered in London
Broadway openings on this day:
In 1956 Leonard Bernstein‘s Candide
In 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s Flower Drum Song
In 1968 Burt Bacharach-Hal David‘s Promises Promises
Birthday anniversaries of composers Ernest Reyer (1823)
and Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych
and mezzo-soprano Heather Begg (1932)
Happy 63rd birthday soprano Leontina Vaduva
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