On this day in 1927 Ermanno Wolf-Ferari‘s opera Sly, also inspired by The Taming of the Shrew, premiered at La Scala

Happy 70th birthday soprano June Anderson

On this day in 1954 the Harold Arlen-Truman Capote musical House of Flowers opened on Broadway

Birthday anniversaries of composer Paul Bowles (1910)
tenor Gösta Winbergh (1943)
and stage director Graham Vick (1953)