On this day in 2013 the world premiere of Nico Muhly‘s Two Boys took place at the Met

Birthday anniversaries of librettists Michel Carré (1822) and Giuseppe Giacosa (1847), composer Joseph Canteloube (1879), tenors John Alexander (1923) and Kenneth Collins (1935), and soprano Virginia Zeani(1925)

Happy 77th birthday bass and teacher Richard Crist

Happy birthday to parterre box‘s intrepid Publisher (and factotum) Nick Scholl!