On this day in 1962 soprano Regine Crespin made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Marschallin. Mezzo Hertha Töpper debuts as Octavian and Lotte Lehmann is stage director.

Birthday anniversary of playwright, librettist and stage director Giovacchino Forzano (1884)

Footage from Forzano’s 1927 production of La figlia di Iorio

Birthday anniversary of conductor David Lloyd-Jones (1934)