On this day in 1724 Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto premiered in London.
On this day in 1816 Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia had its disastrous premiere in Rome.
Birthday anniversaries of director and administrator Carl Ebert (1887) sopranos Nadine Conner (1913) and Margareta Hallin (1931, she passed on February 9) and tenor Giorgio Merighi (1939)
Happy 71st birthday composer Anthony Davis.
Happy 69th birthday conductor Riccardo Chailly.
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