Born on this day in 1935 conductor Seiji Ozawa

On this day in 1829 Rossini‘s Guillaume Tell premieres in Paris

Born on this day in 1922 soprano/mezzo-soprano/opera director Regina Resnik

Born on this day in 1926 baritone Thomas Stewart

Happy 83rd birthday bass Paul Plishka

Happy 75th birthday Irish mezzo-soprano (not Canadian pop singer) Ann Murray

Born on this day in 1915 soprano Gré Brouwenstijn

Born on this day in 1918 composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein

Born on this day in 1900 composer Ernst Krenek

Born on this day in 1862 composers Claude Debussy

On this day in 1828 Rossini’s Le comte Ory premiered in Paris

Born on this day in 1883 designer Coco Chanel

Born on this day in 1750 composer Antonio Salieri

Born on this day in 1686 composer Nicola Porpora

On this day in 1876 Wagner’s Siegfried premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus

Happy 68th birthday tenor Bruce Ford

Happy 64th birthdays to soprano Cecilia Gasdia

Happy 76th birthday soprano Kathleen Battle

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Rjy-zpW7M Born on this day in 1944 tenor Peter Hofmann httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtFBTjwxbjM Birthday anniversaries of tenor Antonio Cortis (1891), mezzo-contralto Maria Olszewska (1892), soprano Trude Eipperle (1910), and opera director Harry Kupfer (1935) Happy 74th birthday soprano Melanie Holliday httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqXx-RBWRgI

Born on this day in 1927 conductor Raymond Leppard

Happy 65th birthday soprano Maria Guleghina

Happy 87th birthday stage director Sonja Frisell