Birthday pictures 23 June 2009

Kim Begley, British tenor, is 57 today. Performing as Parsifal in Richard Wagner’s opera ‘Parsifal’ performed at English National Opera, 1999. Directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff. (photographer Billy Rafferty)

Nicholas Cleobury, British conductor, at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, September 2006, is 59 today. (Graham Salter)

James Levine, American conductor and pianist, conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra 2007, is 66 today. (photographer Chris Christodoulou)