"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful"

Happy 57th birthday soprano Sumi Jo.

On this day premieres of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable in Paris (1831) and Pietro Mascagni’s Iris in Rome (1898).

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