This Day in the Arts: September 16
1098:
Hildegarde of Bingen, a mystic, author, and composer, is born in Germany.
1925:
B.B. King, American blues guitarist and singer and leader of an urban blues revival in the 1960s, is born.
1966:
The new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York opens with the debut performance of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra, starring Leontyne Price.
