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1912
 
     
The opera Ariadne auf Naxos, by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has its first premiere in Stuttgart        
1914
 
   
The tenor Beniamino Gigli wins an international singing competition in Parma, and makes his operatic debut later in the same year      
1916
 
    
The opera Goyescas, by Spanish composer Enrique Granados, has its premiere in New York       
1916
 
    
The success of Jenufa in Prague finally brings international recognition to Leos Janacek, already in his sixties       
1917
 
   
Otto Klemperer starts a seven-year spell as music director of Cologne opera, and begins to acquire an international reputation      
1918
 
    
Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle is finally staged in Budapest, nine years after its composition       
1921
 
    
Janacek's opera Kátya Kabanová, based on Ostrovsky's play The Storm, has its premiere in Brno       
1923
 
    
Albert Roussel's opera-ballet Padmâvâti is premiered in Paris       
1924
 
    
Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, based on verses by Rudolf Tesnohlídek, is premiered in Brno       
1924
 
     
Giacomo Puccini dies without finishing his opera Turandot, which is subsequently completed by Franco Alfani