July 31 — On This Day in Opera

Italian composer and conductor Lorenzo Perosi, whose stage works include the opera "La risurrezione di Cristo", was born in Tortona.

Birth of Spanish tenor Pedro Lavirgen in Bujalance, Córdoba, who had a legendary international career from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Death of American operatic tenor William Bosworth Martin, who sang Werther at Opéra‑Comique and premiered in Le poème du soir.

Hungarian-American dramatic soprano Anne Roselle, remembered for creating the title role in the first post-war production of Strauss's "Turandot" in Dresden and for her Metropolitan Opera appearances, died in New York.

Death of Austrian‑born conductor Walter Taussig, longtime coach and associate conductor at the Metropolitan Opera.

Death of Turkish operatic soprano Mesude Çağlayan, a pioneer of opera in Turkey and first Cio‑Cio‑san in Turkish Madama Butterfly.