On this day in 1876 Ponchelli’s La Gioconda premiered in Milan

Birthday anniversaries of conductors Adrian Boult (1889) and Josef Krips (1902),
tenors Raoul Jobin (1906), Paul Kuen (1910) and Walter Raffeiner (1947),
bass-baritone Walter Berry (1929),
baritone John Reardon (1930)
and soprano Sabine Hass (1949)

Happy 77th birthday mezzo-soprano Bruna Baglioni
Happy 71st birthday mezzo-soprano Diana Montague
Happy 67th birthday baritone Anthony Michaels-Moore

Happy birthday to parterre scribe Joel Rozen!