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Events relating to opera
The French chef Auguste Escoffier creates and names a dessert in honour of the Australian soprano Nellie Melba
Giacomo Puccini has his first success when his opera Manon Lescaut opens in Turin
In Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi writes his last opera, and his only comedy since the early days of his career.
Hansel and Gretl, an opera by German composer Engelbert Humperdinck, has its premiere in Weimar
The tenor Enrico Caruso makes his debut in his home town of Naples
Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème has an unsuccessful premiere in Turin
Jewish composer Gustav Mahler is baptized a Christian so as to be eligible to conduct the Vienna Opera
The Australian soprano Nellie Melba forms the Melba Grand Opera Company as a touring venture in the USA
Giacomo Puccini's Tosca brings in the new century with a January premiere in Rome
Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise has Paris premiere at the Opéra-Comique
Vast crowds line the streets for the Milan funeral of a national hero, the 87-year-old composer Giuseppe Verdi
Rusalka, by the Czech composer Anton Dvorák, is performed in Prague
Frederick Delius completes his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, but it is not performed until 1907 in Berlin
Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande has its premiere in Paris
Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his US debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera
Leos Janacek's opera Jenufa, based on a play by Gabriela Preissová, has its premiere in Brno
Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly falls victim at La Scala to claques paid for by rivals
Richard Strauss's Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play, has wide success in spite of censorship difficulties
Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow opens in Vienna at the start of an immensely successful run
Ethel Smyth's most successful opera, The Wreckers, is premiered in Leipzig
Frederick Delius's Walk to the Paradise Garden is added to his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet to cover a scene change during the Berlin premiere
Sergei Diaghilev presents Fyodor Chaliapin in Boris Godunov at the Paris Opera
The opera Elektra, the first collaboration between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has its premiere in Dresden
Arnold Schoenberg composes his opera for a single voice, Erwartung, which remains unperformed until 1924 in Prague
Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel has its premiere in Moscow
