On this day in 2002 the Metropolitan premiere of Wolf-Ferrari’s Sly.

Birthday anniversaries of writer Antoine Francois Prevost (1697), composers Ferruccio Busoni (1866), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873) and William Bergsma (1921), tenor/baritone Renato Zanelli (1892), director and administrator Günther Rennert (1911) and tenor Hermin Esser (1928).

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