(Claudia Muzio, Giuseppe de Luca, and Giovanni Martinelli singing in Italian)

On this day in 2011 the first Metropolitan Opera performance of Rossini‘s Le Comte Ory

Birthday anniversaries of soprano Maria Malibran (1808),
bass Fritz Ollendorf (1912),
sopranos Luisa Bosabalian (1936) and Christiane Eda-Pierre (1932),
director and designer Herbert Wernicke (1946)

Happy 87th birthday baritone Benjamin Luxon
Happy 69th birthday soprano Charlotte Margiono