On this day in 2014 Metropolitan Opera premiered John Adams‘s The Death of Klinghoffer.  Protests break out during the performance.

On this day in 1954 Mary Martin in Peter Pan flew on Broadway (score by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green)

Happy 93rd birthday contralto Lauris Elms
Happy 81st birthday dramatic soprano/mezzo-soprano Dunja Vejzovic
Happy 78th birthday tenor John Joseph Elwes
Happy 77th birthday baritone Wolfgang Brendel

Photo: Kevin Fox