Today's Birthdays in Music: June 4 (Bartoli, Merrill)

1966 - Cecilia Bartoli, Rome, Italy; opera and concert soprano and mezzo-soprano

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Cecilia Bartoli sings "Siam navi all 'onde algenti" from Vivaldi's Ottone in Villa (Il Giardino Armonico, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris)



1917 - Robert Merrill, New York, U.S.A.; opera baritone

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Robert Merrill sings "Il balen" from Verdi's Il Trovatore (1957)