On this day in 1840 Donizetti‘s La Favorite premiered in Paris

On this day in 1877 Camille Saint-Saens’s opera Samson et Dalila premiered in Weimar

Birthday anniversaries of tenor and teacher Paul Althouse (1899)
conductors Peter Herman Adler (also 1899) and
John Barbirolli (1923)
and mezzo-soprano Irina Arkhipova (1925)