httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icpHzlFVGp0

In 2001 Prokofiev‘s The Gambler (Vladimir Galouzine, Olga Guryakova, and Elena Obraztsova, conducted by Valery Gergiev)

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnwPanJx028

In 1913 Mussorgsky‘s Boris Godunov (Adamo Didur, Paul Althouse, and Louise Homer, singing in Italian)

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hurto7StPYU

In 1884 Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots (Marcella Sembrich, Italo Campanini and Christine Nilsson, singing in Italian)

Happy 78th birthday soprano Diana Soviero

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9DJd2vyRuw

On this day in 1859 Charles Gounod’s Faust premiered in Paris; five years later, his opera Mireille also premiered

Birthday anniversaries of composer Francesco Gasparini (1661),
librettist Salvadore Cammarano (1801),
impresario Sergey Pavlovich Dyagilev (1872),
baritone Armando Borgioli (1898),
tenor Erich Witte (1911),
lyricist and librettist Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912),
mezzo-soprano Nancy Evans (1915),
baritone Robert McFerrin (1921),
bass Boris Timofeyevich Shtokolov (1930),
baritone Hermann Becht (1939)

Happy 80th birthday soprano Eugenia Moldoveanu
Happy 75th birthday mezzo-soprano Carolyn Watkinson