Renee Fleming, Samuel Ramey, and Jerry Hadley star.

Birthday anniversaries of composers Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732), conductor Clemens Krauss (1893),
tenors Franz Völker (1899) and John Mitchinson (1932),
soprano Elisabeth Grümmer (1911) and bass Frederick Guthrie (1924)

Happy 86th birthday bass-baritone Jozsef Dene
Happy 84th birthday soprano Olivia Stapp
Happy 78th birthday soprano Christine Weidinger
Happy 70th birthday tenor Dénes Gulyás
Happy 69th birthday tenor Robert Gambill
Happy 63rd birthday composer Jake Heggie
Happy 57th birthday baritone Matthias Goerne