On this day in 1965 bass Nicolai Ghaiurov made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Méphistophélès

Birthday anniversaries of tenor Joseph Rogachevsky (1891), contralto Res Fischer (1896), conductors Alberto Erede (1908) and Lamberto Gardelli (1915), and bass and composer Jerome Hines (1921)

Happy 76th birthday soprano Elizabeth Gale

Photo: Margaret Marshall