On this day in 1970 tenor Nico Castel made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Don Basilo in Le Nozze di Figaro. He sang a total of 793 Met performances ending in 1997.
Birthday anniversaries of poet Paul Verlaine (1844) and baritone John Heddle Nash (1926).
Happy 80th birthday soprano Laila Andersson-Palme.
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