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24 May
BIRTHS * Ferdinand Fränzl German composer. (1767) * Henry Prunières French musicologist. (1886) * Zdeněk Blažek Czech composer. (1905) * Krešimir Fribec Croatian composer. (1908) * Marģers Zariņš Latvian composer. (1910) * Joan Hammond Australian soprano. (1912) * Giuseppe Valdengo Italian baritone. (1914) * Martin Kalmanoff American composer. (1920) * Sadao Bekku Japanese composer. (1922) * András Kórodi Hungarian conductor. (1922) * Konrad Boehmer Dutch composer. (1941) * Fiona Kimm English mezzo-soprano. (1952)

DEATHS * Friedrich Fesca German composer. (1826) * Benjamin Carr American composer. (1831) * Viktor Isidorovich Dolidze Georgian composer. (1933) * Cloe Elmo Italian mezzo-soprano. (1962) * Bernard Rogers American composer. (1968)

PREMIERES Hans Heiling Heinrich August Marschner; Berlin, Hofoper, 24 May 1833. Le roi l'a dit Léo Delibes; Paris, Opéra-Comique , 24 May 1873. Cendrillon Jules Massenet; Paris, Opéra-Comique , 24 May 1899. Bluebeard's Castle Béla Bartók; Budapest, Opera, 24 May 1918.
 

25 May
BIRTHS * Edward Bulwer-Lytton English writer. (1803) * Camille Erlanger French composer. (1863, 150 years) * Gilardo Gilardi Argentine composer. (1889) * Heinz Rehfuss Swiss bass-baritone. (1917) * Havelock Nelson Irish conductor. (1917) * Gino Negri Italian composer and critic. (1919) * Aldo Clementi Italian composer. (1925) * Gerhard Croll Austrian musicologist. (1927) * Beverly Sills American soprano and director. (1929) * Franco Bonisolli Italian tenor. (1937) * Maria Slatinaru Romanian soprano. (1938) * Elena Souliotis Greek soprano. (1943)

DEATHS * Pedro Calderón de la Barca Spanish writer and librettist. (1681) * Barbara Gerl Austrian singer and actress. (1806) * Domenico Puccini Italian composer. (1815) * Johann Nepomuk Nestroy Austrian playwright, actor and singer. (1862) * Paolo Giorza Italian composer and conductor. (1914) * Léon Vasseur French composer. (1917) * Gustav Holst English composer. (1934) * Ján Levoslav Bella Slovak composer. (1936) * Rosa Ponselle American soprano. (1981) * Adelaide Saraceni Argentine soprano. (1995)

PREMIERES Amadigi di Gaula George Frideric Handel; London, King's Theatre, 25 May 1715. Il Geloso in cimento Pasquale Anfossi; Vienna, Burgtheater, 25 May 1774. HMS Pinafore Arthur Sullivan; London, Opera Comique, 25 May 1878. Ukroshcheniye stroptivoy Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin; Kuybïshev , Opera and Ballet Theatre, 25 May 1957. Samstag aus Licht Karlheinz Stockhausen; Milano, Palazzo dello Sport , 25 May 1984.
 

26 May
BIRTHS * Luigi Vanvitelli Italian scene designer and inventor of stage machinery. (1700) * Joseph Drechsler Bohemian composer. (1782) * Felipe Gutiérrez Espinosa Puerto Rican composer. (1825) * Arthur Coquard French composer. (1846) * Josef Urban American architect and stage designer. (1872) * Eugene Goossens English composer and conductor. (1893) * Inge Borkh Swiss soprano. (1917) * Herbert Handt American tenor and conductor. (1926) * Joseph Horovitz British composer. (1926) * Kari Nurmela Finnish baritone. (1933) * German| Tenor . (2) * Teresa Stratas Canadian soprano. (1938) * William Bolcom American composer. (1938) * Imants Kalniņš Latvian composer. (1941)

DEATHS * Aimé Maillart French composer. (1871) * August Conradi German composer. (1873) * Jan Blockx Belgian composer. (1912) * Victor Herbert American composer. (1924) * Tamaki Miura Japanese soprano. (1946) * Ferdinand Frantz German bass-baritone. (1959) * Maggie Teyte English soprano. (1976) * Yelena Andreyevna Stepanova Russian soprano. (1978) * Nanny Larsén-Todsen Swedish soprano. (1982)

PREMIERES Cox and Box Arthur Sullivan; private performance, London, probably 26 May 1866. The Nightingale Igor Stravinsky; Paris, Opéra, 26 May 1914. Drömmen om Thérèse Lars Johan Werle; Stockholm, Royal Opera , 26 May 1964. L'ispirazione Sylvano Bussotti; Florence, Teatro Comunale, 26 May 1988.