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Events relating to opera
Gioacchino Rossini's opera William Tell has its premiere in Paris
Gaetano Donizetti's opera L'elisir d'amore has its premiere in Milan
Gaetano Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor has its premiere in Naples
The success of the opera Nabucco, premiered in Milan, is a turning point in the fortunes of Giuseppe Verdi
The Flying Dutchman is the first of Richard Wagner's major operas to be staged, with its premiere in Dresden
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto, based on a play by Victor Hugo, is a huge success at its premiere in Venice
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore is a success at its premiere in Rome
Just six weeks after the success of Il Trovatore, Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata is a disaster at its premiere in Venice
Hector Berlioz completes his 4-hour opera The Trojans (not performed as a complete work until 1890)
The opera Faust, by French composer Charles Gounod, has its premiere in Paris
English surgeon Joseph Lister introduces the era of antiseptic surgery, with the use of carbolic acid in the operating theatre
Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde has its premiere in the Munich court theatre
Richard Wagner's opera The Mastersingers of Nuremberg has its premiere in Munich
Das Rheingold, with its premiere in Munich, is the first part of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle to be staged
Coppélia, with choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon to music by Delibes, has its premiere at the Paris Opera
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, is commissioned for the Cairo opera house, part of the process of Egypt becoming westernized
Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov has its premiere in St Petersburg
Johann Strauss's operetta Die Fledermaus has its premiere in Vienna
Georges Bizet's opera Carmen has its premiere in Paris and meets at first with a lukewarm response
An agreement is signed between France and Britain to cooperate in the construction of a tunnel beneath the Channel
Richard Wagner's sequence of four operas, The Ring of the Nibelungen, has its first complete performance at Bayreuth
Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, based on Pushkin's poem, has its premiere in Moscow
Alexander Borodin dies without finishing his opera Prince Igor (completed later by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov)
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello has its premeiere at La Scala in Milan
The Australian soprano Nellie Melba makes her operatic debut as Gilda in Rigoletto in Brussels
