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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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| 1939 |
| | | Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan becomes music director of the Berlin State Opera | |
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| 1941 |
| | | Greek soprano Maria Callas sings her first Tosca, in the opera house in Athens | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes has its premiere in London, at the Sadler's Wells theatre | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Sadler's Wells Ballet moves to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden (and is known from 1956 as the Royal Ballet) | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff makes his debut in Puccini's La Bohème in Reggio Calabria | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Francis Poulenc makes an opera of Guillaume Apollinaire's play Les Mamelles de Tirésias ('The Breasts of Tiresias') | |
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