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'<b><span class="nprnewspacks_title">November 20</b></span> ',
'<li class="nprnewspacks_teaser">1805 -- Ludwig van Beethoven conducts the first performance of his only ',
'opera, <I>Fidelio,</I> in Vienna. The audience was sparse, as the ',
'French army had entered the city the previous week.',
'<li class="nprnewspacks_teaser">1894 -- Death of pianist, conductor and composer Anton Rubinstein, 62, in Peterhof, Russia.',
'<li class="nprnewspacks_teaser">1907 -- Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin makes his American debut singing in Boito\'s',
'<I>Mefistofele</I> at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.',
'<li class="nprnewspacks_teaser">1923 -- Polish harpsichordist Wanda Landowska performs with the Philadelphia Orchestra, marking ',
'her American debut.  Leopold Stowkowski conducts.',
'<li class="nprnewspacks_teaser">1941 -- American double bass virtuoso Gary Karr is born in Los Angeles.',
'<li class="nprnewspacks_teaser">1948 -- Birth of soprano Barbara Hendricks in Stephens, Arkansas.',
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