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1900
 
    
Giacomo Puccini's Tosca brings in the new century with a January premiere in Rome       
1900
 
    
Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise has Paris premiere at the Opéra-Comique       
1901
 
   
Vast crowds line the streets for the Milan funeral of a national hero, the 87-year-old composer Giuseppe Verdi      
1901
 
    
Rusalka, by the Czech composer Anton Dvorák, is performed in Prague       
1901
 
    
Frederick Delius completes his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, but it is not performed until 1907 in Berlin       
1902
 
    
Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande has its premiere in Paris       
1903
 
    
Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his US debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera       
1904
 
     
Leos Janacek's opera Jenufa, based on a play by Gabriela Preissová, has its premiere in Brno        
1904
 
    
Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly falls victim at La Scala to claques paid for by rivals       
1905
 
     
Richard Strauss's Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play, has wide success in spite of censorship difficulties