Ljuba Welitsch was born #OTD in 1913.

Unique, incomparable and still for many the definitive Salome, heard here in the final scene in 1948, with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1cEtLnkZAE

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Verdi's Aida was first performed in Cairo #OTD in 1871.

Here's a performance from the Met in 1950, conducted by Emil Cooper, with Ljuba Welitsch, Margaret Harshaw, Ramon Vinay, Robert Merrill and Jerome Hines:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKmO_1ESYEY

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