Handel‘s Alcina (London, 1735)…

Meyerbeer‘s Le prophète (Paris, 1849)…

…and Gounod‘s Sapho (Paris, 1851)

Happy 82nd birthday baritone Leo Nucci

Birthday anniversaries of playwright John Millington Synge (1871),
mezzo-soprano Constance Shacklock (1913)
contralto Carol Brice (1918)
and soprano Marie Collier (1927)

Happy 80th birthday conductor Dennis Russell Davies

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