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Events relating to opera
Lee De Forest broadcasts Enrico Caruso live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, but with mixed success owing to the poor quality
The Snowman, a pantomime opera by the 11-year-old Erich Korngold, is a huge succes in Vienna
Thomas Beecham sponsors and conducts his own season of opera at Covent Garden
Giacomo Puccini's opera Girl of the Golden West premieres in New York
Richard Strauss changes musical direction with his opera Der Rosenkavalier, once again with libretto by Hugo von Hoffmannsthal
Scott Joplin completes a ragtime opera, Treemonisha
The Berlin Opera Ballet is founded to perform in the city's new opera house
The opera Ariadne auf Naxos, by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has its first premiere in Stuttgart
The tenor Beniamino Gigli wins an international singing competition in Parma, and makes his operatic debut later in the same year
The opera Goyescas, by Spanish composer Enrique Granados, has its premiere in New York
The success of Jenufa in Prague finally brings international recognition to Leos Janacek, already in his sixties
Otto Klemperer starts a seven-year spell as music director of Cologne opera, and begins to acquire an international reputation
Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle is finally staged in Budapest, nine years after its composition
Janacek's opera Kátya Kabanová, based on Ostrovsky's play The Storm, has its premiere in Brno
Albert Roussel's opera-ballet Padmâvâti is premiered in Paris
Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, based on verses by Rudolf Tesnohlídek, is premiered in Brno
Giacomo Puccini dies without finishing his opera Turandot, which is subsequently completed by Franco Alfani
Maurice Ravel and Colette provide music and libretto for the opera The Child and the Enchantments
Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck has its premiere in Berlin
Karel Szymanowski's opera King Roger has its first performance in Warsaw
Zoltán Kodály's opera Háry J´nos has its first performance in Budapest
Leos Janacek's opera The Makropoulos Affair, based on the play by Karel Capek, has its first performance in Brno
Ernst Krenek's jazz opera Jonny Strikes Up has its premiere in Leipzig
The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, opens to great acclaim in Berlin
The opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, opens in Leipzig
