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| 1851 |
| | | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto, based on a play by Victor Hugo, is a huge success at its premiere in Venice | |
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| 1853 |
| | | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore is a success at its premiere in Rome | |
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| 1853 |
| | | Just six weeks after the success of Il Trovatore, Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata is a disaster at its premiere in Venice | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Hector Berlioz completes his 4-hour opera The Trojans (not performed as a complete work until 1890) | |
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| 1859 |
| | | The opera Faust, by French composer Charles Gounod, has its premiere in Paris | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde has its premiere in the Munich court theatre | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Richard Wagner's opera The Mastersingers of Nuremberg has its premiere in Munich | |
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| 1869 |
| | | Das Rheingold, with its premiere in Munich, is the first part of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle to be staged | |
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| 1870 |
| | | Coppélia, with choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon to music by Delibes, has its premiere at the Paris Opera | |
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| 1871 |
| | | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, is commissioned for the Cairo opera house, part of the process of Egypt becoming westernized | |
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