Born on this day in 1962 baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky

On this day in 1972 conductor Henry Lewis made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting La bohème on what was his 40th birthday.

Birthday anniversaries of writer Eugene O’Neill (1888), bass Guus Hoekman and baritone Gino Bechi (both in 1913), and mezzo-soprano Margreta Elkins (1930 or 1932)

Happy 94th birthday conductor James Lockhart