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Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Amilcare Ponchielli Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886) Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) Victor Massé Victor Massé (1822–1884)

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Today in Opera History — June 30

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1685
John Gay, English dramatist best remembered for the ballad opera "The Beggar’s Opera", was born in Barnstaple.
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1845
Italo Campanini, Italian operatic tenor and early Metropolitan Opera leading singer, was born in Parma.
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1877
Birth of Polish-American operatic soprano Bella Alten, who performed at the Metropolitan Opera House in the early 1900s.
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1886
Arturo Toscanini, at age 19, made his conducting debut by leading Verdi’s Aida from memory in Rio de Janeiro during an opera company's performance.
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1985
Dorothy Rudd Moore’s opera "Frederick Douglass" received its world premiere at Aaron Davis Hall in New York.
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