On this day in 1782 Mozart‘s Die Entführung aus dem Serail premiered in Vienna

Happy 44th birthday to Broadway’s Laura Benanti

Born on this day in 1918 director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman

Born on this day in 1924 tenor Carlo Bergonzi

Born on this day in 1895 soprano Kirsten Flagstad

Born on this day in 1925 soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs…

Happy 55th birthday tenor Jonas Kaufmann

Happy 87th birthday painter and designer David Hockney

Born on this day in 1912 soprano Christel Goltz

Born on this day in 1860 composer Gustav Mahler

Born on this day in 1907 (1910?) soprano Dorothy Kirsten

Born on this day in 1889 writer, filmmaker and designer Jean Cocteau

Happy Independence Day to all U.S. Parterrians!

Born on this day in 1878 composer and performer George M Cohan

Born on this day in 1714 composer Christoph Willibald von Gluck

On this day in 1933 Richard Strauss‘s Arabella premiered in Dresden

Happy 66th birthday conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

Born on this day in 1914 conductor and composer Rafael Kubelík

Born on this day in 1902 composer Richard Rodgers

Born on this day in 1932 soprano Anna Moffo

Born on this day in 1916 baritone Giuseppe Taddei

On this day in 1870 Wagner‘s Die Walküre premiered in Munich

On this day in 1967 the Metropolitan Opera’s first Met in the Parks performance in Crocheron Park, Bayside, Queens

Born on this day in 1927 dancer and choreographer Bob Fosse