She created the role of Lavinia in Levy‘s Mourning Becomes Electra for her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1967 and her farewell was as the Marschallin in 1985.

Birthday anniversaries of bass-baritone Karl Dönch (1915)
basses Giorgio Tozzi (1923) and Yevgeny Nesterenko (1938)
composer Benjamin Lees (1924)
and director Elijah Moshinsky (1946).