Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal, poet, and scholar, who was influential in the development of the Italian language, was born on this day in 1470.

May 20, 2019 by Scott Davis

Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “Linda di Chamounix” was premiered in Vienna on this day in 1842.

May 19, 2019 by Scott Davis

Maurice Ravel’s opera “L’heure espagnole” was premiered in Paris on this day in 1911.

May 19, 2019 by Scott Davis

U. S. composer Douglas Moore’s folk opera “The Devil and Daniel Webster” was premiered in New York City on this day in 1939.

May 18, 2019 by Scott Davis

French composer Paul Dukas’s symphonic poem “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” was first performed in Paris on this day in 1897.

May 18, 2019 by Scott Davis

Sergei Prokofiev’s cantata “Alexander Nevsky” was first performed in Moscow on this day in 1939.

May 17, 2019 by Scott Davis