On this day in 1868 Bizet‘s Les pêcheurs de perles premiered in Paris

Happy 80th birthday baritone Thomas Allen

Happy 75th birthday soprano Francoise Pollet

Happy 67th birthday tenor and director Laurence Dale

Birthday anniversaries of composers Henry Purcell (1659), and Niccolò Jommelli (1714), soprano Judith Nelson (1939), and conductor Christopher Hogwood (1941)

Happy 85th birthday bass Hans Sotin
Happy 78th birthdays stage director David Pountney and composer Adriano Guarnieri

Photo: © Les Pêcheurs de perles – maquette décors Antoine Fontaine