On this day in 1964 Metropolitan Opera debuts of Leonard Bernstein, Franco Zeffirelli and Luigi Alva in a new production of Verdi’s Falstaff.

On this day in 1831 Vincenzo Bellini’s La sonnambula premiered in Milan.

Birthday anniversaries of composer Oscar Straus (1870), tenor Fernand Ansseau (1890), soprano Gina Cigna (1900), conductors Julius Rudel (1921), Sarah Caldwell (1924) and Lorin Maazel (1930), and bass-baritone Norman Treigle (1927).

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