On this day in 1999 the Metropolitan Opera presented its main stage premiere of Floyd’s Susannah. Renee Fleming, Samuel Ramey and Jerry Hadley starred.
Birthday anniversaries of composers Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732), conductor Clemens Krauss (1893), tenor Franz Völker (1899) soprano Elisabeth Grümmer (1911) and bass Frederick Guthrie (1924).
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