July 11 — On This Day in Opera

Premiere of the military opera “Leo the Royal Cadet” at Martin's Opera House in Kingston, Ontario.

Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" was included in Sir Joseph Beecham's Grand Season of Russian Opera and Ballet at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, part of the first British performances of the work.

Derrick Wang's comic opera "Scalia/Ginsburg" received its world premiere at the Castleton Festival.

Bohemian operatic tenor Joseph Aloys Tichatschek, later the first Rienzi and Tannhäuser in Wagner's operas, was born in Ober-Weckelsdorf, Bohemia.

Death of Italian operatic soprano Eugenia Tadolini in Paris.

Death of American operatic soprano Marcia Van Dresser in London.

Italian composer Giorgio Federico Ghedini, later composer of the opera "Billy Budd", was born in Cuneo.

Birth of groundbreaking American opera singer Mattiwilda Dobbs in Atlanta.

Swedish operatic tenor Nicolai Gedda was born in Stockholm.