On this day in 2005 mezzo-soprano Joyce Di Donato made her Met debut as Cherubino

Birthday anniversaries of composer Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), tenor Giuseppe Lugo (1898), baritone Sigurd Björling (1907), composer Harold Faberman (1929), soprano Ruth Falcon (1942), film and stage director Patrice Chéreau (1944), and composer and conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946)

Happy 81st birthday soprano Faye Robinson
Happy 70th birthday soprano Marie McLaughlin