Only Metropolitan Opera appearances were six performances of Fidelio in 1982

On this day in 1830 Vincenzo Bellini‘s I Capuleti e i Montecchi premieres in Venice, and in 1913 Gabriel Fauré‘s Pénélope premieres in Paris

Birthday anniversary of composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678),
soprano Dora Labbette (1898),
and conductor Ferdinand Leitner (1912)

Happy 88th birthday composer Aribert Reimann
Happy 83rd birthday conductor Yury Simonov