On this day in 2002 the Metropolitan premiere of Forzano and Wolf-Ferrari‘s Sly

Birthday anniversaries of writer Antoine Francois Prevost (1697)
composers Ferruccio Busoni (1866), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873) and William Bergsma (1921)
tenor/baritone Renato Zanelli (1892),
director and administrator Günther Rennert (1911),
and tenor Hermin Esser (1928)