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| 1934 |
| | | The first opera festival at Glyndebourne, a country house in Sussex, opens with a performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Swedish tenor Jussi Björling makes his debut in Stockholm, in Puccini's Manon Lescaut | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Paul Hindemith's opera Mathis der Maler is banned by the Nazis and is not performed until 1938 in Zurich | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Arthur Honegger's opera Joan of Arc at the Stake has its premiere in Basel | |
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| 1935 |
| | | In A Night at the Opera the Marx Brothers make the first of their films as the famous threesome, Groucho, Harpo and Chico | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Leningrad's opera and ballet company is renamed the Kirov, in memory of the city's recently assassinated commissar | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Italian baritone Tito Gobbi makes his operatic debut in Gubbio in Bellini's La Somnambula | |
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| 1935 |
| | | George Gershwin's 'folk opera' Porgy and Bess, based on the novel by DuBose Heyward, opens on Broadway | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Alban Berg's opera Lulu is incomplete when the composer dies | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears give a series of recitals in the USA at the start of a lifelong partnership | |
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