…also born on this day in 1930 conductor Thomas Schippers

Operatic premieres:  Verdi’s Nabucco premiered in Milan (1842), his Ernani in Venice (1844), Otto Nicolai’s Die lustige Weiber von Windsor in Berlin (1849) and Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet in Paris (1868).

Birthday anniversaries of librettist and composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839),
basses Nicola Zaccaria (1923) and Franz Crass (1928),
and tenor Sergej Larin (1956)