Portal:Opera/Selected anniversaries/June

3 June 1875 – Georges Bizet, the composer of Carmen, died in Bougival, France, at the age of 36.
4 June 1966 – Italian mezzo-soprano, Cecilia Bartoli, was born in Rome.
6 June 1928 – Die ägyptische Helena by Richard Strauss had its world premiere at the Dresden Semperoper.
11 June 1913 – The popular American mezzo-soprano, Risë Stevens, was born in New York City.
13 June 1801 – Vienna's Theater an der Wien was officially inaugurated. Amongst the world premieres which have taken place there are Beethoven's Fidelio and Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow.
14 June 1884 – The celebrated Irish tenor, John McCormack (pictured), was born in Athlone.
21 June 1868 – Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg had its world premiere at the National Theatre Munich conducted by Hans von Bülow.
22 June 1910 – British tenor, Sir Peter Pears, was born in Farnham, Surrey. He created the leading tenor roles in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, Albert Herring, Billy Budd, The Turn of the Screw and Death in Venice.