On this day in 1951 Benjamin Britten‘s Billy Budd premiered in London
Broadway openings on this day:
In 1956 Leonard Bernstein‘s Candide
In 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s Flower Drum Song
In 1968 Burt Bacharach–Hal David’s Promises Promises
Birthday anniversaries of composers Ernest Reyer (1823) and mezzo-soprano Heather Begg (1932)
Happy 64th birthday soprano Leontina Vaduva
Image: Bluerasberry, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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