The audio streaming platform Spotify was launched on this day in 2008, regarded as enabling easy access to large amounts of recorded music.

October 7, 2019 by Scott Davis

The opéra bouffe “La Périchole,” by Jacques Offenbach, was first staged at the Théâtre des Variétés, in Paris, on this day in 1868.

October 6, 2019 by Scott Davis

Opera singer Jenny Lind, the “Swedish Nightingale,” was born in Stockholm on this day in 1820.

October 6, 2019 by Scott Davis

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote the “Heiligenstadt Testament,” a letter to his brothers expressing the despair he felt over his increasing deafness – never shared with either – on this day in 1802.

October 6, 2019 by Scott Davis

The opera “Orfeo ed Euridice,” by Christoph Willibald Gluck, was first staged in Vienna on this day in 1762.

October 5, 2019 by Scott Davis

The opera “Ariadne auf Naxos” (Ariadne on Naxos), by Richard Strauss, was premiered in its second version at the Vienna Opera on this day in 1916.

October 4, 2019 by Scott Davis