Soprano Gundula Janowitz, bass Karl Ridderbusch, and mezzo Gwendolyn Killebrew all making their Met debuts as Sieglinde, Hunding, and Waltraute

Birthday anniversaries of writer and philosopher Francois-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire) (1694) and conductor James dePriest (1936)

On this day in 1901 Richard Strauss’s Feuersnot premiered in Dresden

Happy 82nd birthday mezzo-soprano Julia Hamari
Happy 78th birthday soprano Anne-Marie Rodde
Happy 59th birthday singer Bjork

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