She made her historic debut at Bayreuth 1961 as Venus, Met debut 1965 as Eboli, and her Met farewell at the James Levine gala in 1996.

Birthday anniversaries of composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710)
conductor Percy Pitt (1869)
and conductor/impresario Gaetano Merola (1881).

Happy 74th birthday soprano Margaret Marshall
Happy 70th birthday tenor Peter Seiffert