Premieres of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann in Paris (1881),
Rimski-Korsakov‘s Snyegurochka in St. Petersburg (1882),
and Howard Hanson‘s Merry Mount in New York City (1934)

Birthday anniversaries of playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898),
mezzo-soprano Gianna Pederzini (1900),
soprano Maria Cebotari (1910),
conductor Henry Krips (1912) and

bass Cesare Siepi (1923)

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