Happy 59th birthday mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova

On this day in 1791 Cherubini‘s Lodoiska premiered in Paris

Birthday anniversaries of composer Giovanni Bononcini (1670),
mezzo-soprano and composer Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821),
conductors Kurt Masur and Carlo Franci (both 1927),
and baritone Yury Mazurok (1931)