On this day in 1976 soprano Hildegard Behrens made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Giorgetta! Tenor Neil Shicoff made his debut as Rinuccio.

Much later as Mozart‘s Elettra:

Birthday anniversaries of soprano Margaret Burke Sheridan (1889) and mezzo-soprano Bruna Castagna (1905)

Happy 93rd birthday baritone Heinz Horst Blankenburg