On this day in 1994 Shostakovich‘s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk finally bows at the Met. Maria Ewing was Katerina.
Birthday anniversaries: Composers Francois Couperin (1668) and Henri Rabaud (1873), singer Jane Froman (1907), composer Ennio Morricone and composer/lyricist Marilyn Bergman (both 1928), and tenor Graham Clark (1941)
On this day in 1970 the Richard Rodgers-Martin Charnin musical Two by Two opened on Broadway
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