History Hop Tags - Premieres

1160-12-06

Jean Bodels "Jeu de St Nicholas" premieres in Arras

1602-12-05

Giulio Caccini's "Euridice," premieres in Florence

1607-02-24

Claudio Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo," premieres in Mantua

1608-05-28

Claudio Monteverdi's "Arianna" premieres in Mantua

1628-11-24

John Ford's "Lover's Melancholy" premieres in London

1633-02-02

M Rossi's opera "Erminia sul Giordano," premieres in Rome

1635-05-28

Zorilla's "El Desafio de Carlos V" premieres in Madrid

1637-02-02

Zorilla's "El más Impropio Verdugo Para Las," premieres in Madrid

1640-03-09

Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris

1640-08-03

Zorilla's "Bire el Ojo" premieres in Toledo

1643-04-27

Tirso de Molina's "Bellaco Sois, Gomez," premieres in Madrid

1649-01-05

Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice

1659-01-24

Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe," premieres in Paris

1664-07-31

Pierre Corneille's "Othon" premieres in Paris

1665-09-22

Molieres "L'amour Medecin," premieres in Paris

1665-12-04

Jean Racine's "Alexandre le Grand" premieres in Paris

1667-11-07

Jean Racines "Andromaque," premieres in Paris

1668-07-13

Van Marco Cesti's opera "Il Pomo d'Oro" (the Golden Apple or Tomato) premieres in Vienna

1668-12-13

Jean Racine's "Britannicus" premieres in Paris

1670-11-28

Pierre Corneille's "Tite et Berenice" premieres in Paris

1672-01-01

Jean Racine's "Bajazet," premieres in Paris

1673-01-13

Jean Racine's "Mithridate," premieres in Paris

1674-08-18

Jean Racine's "Iphigénie" premieres in Versailles

1674-10-11

Pierre Corneille's "Surena" premieres in Paris

1679-01-31

Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon," premieres in Paris

1682-02-09

Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserved," premieres in London

1683-11-22

Purcell's "Welcome to All the Pleasures" premieres in London

1686-02-15

Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide," premieres in Paris

1689-01-26

Jean Racine's "Esther," premieres in Saint-Cyr

1689-12-30

Henry Purcell & Tates opera "Dido & Aeneas," premieres in Chesea

1695-04-30

William Congreve's "Love for Love" premieres in London

1696-11-21

J Vanbrughe's "Relapse or Virtue in Danger" premieres in London

1696-12-19

Jean-Francois Regnard's "Le Joueur" premieres in Paris

1705-01-08

George F Handel's 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg

1705-04-23

Richard Steele's "Tender Husband" premieres in London

1705-11-23

Nicholas Rowe's "Ulysses" premieres in London

1705-12-29

Prosper Jolyot's "Idomenée," premieres in Paris

1708-12-14

Prosper Jolyot's "Electre" premieres in Paris

1709-01-11

Colley Cibber's "Rival Fools," premieres in London

1711-02-24

Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres at Haymarket theatre in London

1714-02-02

Nicholas Rowe's "tragedy of Jane Shore," premieres in London

1715-04-20

Nicholas Rowe's "Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey" premieres in London

1717-07-17

Handel's "Water Music" premieres on the river Thames in London

1718-11-18

Voltaire's "Oedipe" premieres in Paris

1720-10-17

Pierre de Marivaux' "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour," premieres in Paris

1722-05-03

Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris

1722-11-07

Richard Steele's "Conscious Lovers," premieres in London

1723-01-12

Handel's opera "Ottone" premieres at the King's Theatre London

1724-02-20

George F Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto," premieres in London

1724-04-07

Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig

1724-12-09

Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt" premieres in London

1725-11-11

George Frederick Handel's opera "Tamerlano" premieres in London

1726-05-05

Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opera of Paris

1728-01-29

John Gays' "Beggar's Opera," premieres in London [NS=Feb 9]

1728-02-28

George F Handel's opera "Siroe, re di Persia," premieres in London

1728-04-22

Pierre de Marivaux' "Le Triomphe de Plutus" premieres in Paris

1728-05-04

George Frederick Handel's opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto" premieres in London

1729-04-15

Johann Sebastian Bach's "St Matthew Passion" premieres in Leipzig

1730-12-11

Voltaire's "Brutus" premieres in Paris

1731-02-02

George F Handel's opera "Poro," premieres in London

1732-08-13

Voltaire's "Zaire" premieres in Paris

1736-02-19

George Frideric Handel's "Alexander's Feast," premieres

1743-03-23

George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London

1745-02-15

Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny," premieres in London

1750-05-02

Carlo Goldoni's "La Botega di Caffè" premieres in Mantua

1750-05-23

Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo" premieres in Mantua

1750-10-05

Carlo Goldoni's "Il teatro comica," premieres in Venice

1753-05-29

Joseph Haydn's "Krumme Teufel" premieres

1762-02-02

Thomas Arnes opera "Artaxerxes," premieres in London

1767-05-13

Mozart's opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus" premieres in Salzburg

1770-01-13

De Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis," premieres in Paris

1771-09-26

Denis Diderot's "Le Fils Naturel" premieres in Paris

1771-11-04

Carlo Goldoni's "Le Bourru Bienfaisant" premieres in Paris

1772-03-13

Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti" premieres in Brunswick

1773-03-18

Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer," premieres in London

1774-04-19

CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis" premieres in Paris

1775-01-17

R B Sheridan's "Rivals," premieres in London

1775-09-13

Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main

1776-02-08

Wolfgang von Goethes' "Stella," premieres in Hamburg

1776-04-01

Friedrich von Klinger's "Sturm und Drang" premieres in Leipzig

1777-05-01

RB Sheridan's "School for Scandal" premieres in London

1778-01-27

Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris

1781-01-29

Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" premieres, Munich

1782-07-16

Mozart's opera "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," premieres in Vienna

1785-01-15

Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres

1786-05-01

Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)

1790-01-26

Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres in Vienna

1791-09-06

Mozart's opera "La Clemenza di Tito" premieres in Prague

1791-09-30

Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna

1792-02-07

D Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto," premieres in Vienna

1792-02-23

Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres

1794-02-10

Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres

1795-02-02

Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres

1795-10-16

M von Böhms "Oorlogscantate" premieres

1796-03-31

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Egmont" premieres in Weimar

1797-02-12

Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," premieres in Vienna

1797-03-13

Cherubini's opera "Medée" premieres in Paris

1798-10-12

Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Lager" premieres in Weimar

1799-01-10

Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini," premieres in Weimar

1799-03-19

Joseph Haydn's "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna

1799-04-20

Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod" premieres in Weimar

1800-05-14

Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth" premieres in Weimar

1800-11-24

Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen" premieres in Freiburg

1801-04-11

Johann von Schiller's "Die Jungfrau von Orleans" premieres in Leipzig

1803-03-19

Friedrich Schiller's "Die Braut von Messina" premieres in Weimar

1804-03-17

Friedrich Schiller's play "Wilhelm Tell" premieres

1805-11-20

Beethoven's "Fidelio," premieres in Vienna

1808-03-27

Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna

1810-03-18

"Converse", 1st US opera, premieres in NY

1813-12-08

Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres

1814-02-27

Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres

1816-02-20

Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome

1817-01-25

Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome

1817-01-31

Franz Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau," premieres in Vienna

1818-04-21

Franz Grillparzer's "Sappho" premieres in Vienna

1818-12-25

Handel's Messiah, premieres in the US in Boston

1821-03-26

Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess" premieres in Vienna

1823-02-02

Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premieres in Venice

1823-04-24

Eugene Scribes "Le Menteur Veridique" premieres in Paris

1823-12-20

Franz Schubert's "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde," premieres in Vienna

1824-03-07

Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto" premieres in Venice

1824-05-07

Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna

1825-02-19

Franz Grillparzer's "Konig Ottokars Gluck," premieres in Vienna

1825-06-19

Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims" premieres

1825-10-17

1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris

1825-11-29

1st Italian opera in US, "Barber of Seville" premieres (NYC)

1826-04-12

Weber's opera "Oberon" premieres in London

1828-02-28

Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener," premieres in Vienna

1828-08-20

Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory" premieres in Paris

1829-01-19

Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres

1829-08-03

Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell" premieres in Paris

1830-01-28

Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris

1830-02-25

Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris

1830-03-04

V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice

1830-12-05

Hector Berlioz' "Symphonique Fantastique" premieres in Paris

1830-12-25

Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic" premieres

1830-12-26

Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena," premieres in Milan

1831-03-06

Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula" premieres in Milan

1831-09-26

Robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator" premieres in NYC

1831-10-17

Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres

1831-12-26

Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma," premieres in Milan

1832-03-12

The ballet La Sylphide first premieres at the Opéra de Paris.

1832-05-12

Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'elisir d'amore" premieres in Milan

1832-05-14

Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" premieres

1832-11-15

Felix Mendelssohn's "Reformation" premieres

1833-01-10

Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," premieres in Berlin

1833-01-26

Gaetano Dinozetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia," premieres in Milan

1834-10-04

Franz Grillparzer's "Der Traum ein Leben," premieres in Vienna

1834-11-23

Hector Berlioz's "Harold in Italy" premieres

1835-01-25

Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris

1835-04-26

Frederic Chopin's "Grand Polonaise Brillante" premieres in Paris

1835-09-26

Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" premieres in Naples

1836-02-29

Giacomo Meyerbeers opera "Les Huguenots," premieres in Paris

1836-04-19

Nikolai Gogol's "Revisor" premieres in St Petersburg

1836-05-22

Felix Mendelssohn's oratorium "St Paul" premieres in Dusseldorf

1837-12-05

Hector Berlioz' "Requiem" premieres

1838-03-06

Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt," premieres in Vienna

1838-09-10

Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris

1838-11-08

Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas" premieres in Paris

1839-11-17

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Oberte Conti Di" premieres in Milan

1840-02-11

Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris

1840-03-14

Jose Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey" premieres in Madrid

1840-07-06

Christian Hebbel's "Judith" premieres in Berlin

1840-12-02

Gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Favorita" premieres in Paris

1841-03-04

Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance," premieres in London

1841-06-28

The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle

1841-12-06

Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D premieres

1842-01-07

Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris

1842-03-09

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco" premieres in Milan

1842-12-09

St M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla" premieres in Petersburg

1843-01-02

Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden

1843-01-04

Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in Paris

1843-02-11

Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan

1843-12-04

Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri" premieres in Leipzig

1844-02-03

Hector Berlioz' "Carnaval Romain," premieres in Paris

1844-03-09

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani" premieres in Venice

1844-03-28

Jose Zorilla's "Don Juan Tenorio" premieres in Madrid

1845-10-19

Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhäuser," premieres in Dresden

1846-03-13

Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena" premieres in Königsberg

1846-08-26

Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah" premieres

1846-11-05

Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C premieres

1846-12-08

Hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust" premieres

1847-03-17

"Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence

1847-11-26

Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice" premieres in Paris

1848-02-12

Ballet "Faust" premieres, Milan

1848-11-21

Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto" premieres in Paris

1849-03-09

Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" premieres

1849-04-16

Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Le prophète, premieres in Paris

1849-11-21

Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin" premieres in Vienna

1849-12-08

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller" premieres in Naples

1850-08-28

Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar, Germany

1851-02-06

Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Dusseldorf

1851-03-06

Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze" premieres in London

1851-03-11

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice

1851-10-30

Alfred de Musset's "Bettine" premieres in Paris

1852-02-02

Alexandre Dumas Jr's "Le Dame aux Camélias," premieres in Paris

1852-03-25

Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer" premieres in Munich

1852-04-30

Anton Rubinsteins opera "Dmitri Donskoi" premieres in St Petersburg

1852-09-27

George L Aiken's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" premieres in Troy, NY

1852-11-20

Charles Reade/Tom Taylor's "Masks & Faces" premieres in London

1852-12-08

Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten" premieres in Breslau

1853-01-10

Charles Reade's "Gold," premieres in London

1853-01-19

Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome

1853-03-06

Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata" premieres in Venice

1854-01-25

Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bednost ne Porok," premieres in Moscow

1854-02-16

Franz Liszts symphony "Orpheus," premieres

1854-04-16

Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa" premieres

1854-11-09

Franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres

1855-10-18

Franz Liszt's "Prometheus," premieres

1857-01-08

Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in NYC

1857-03-12

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra" premieres in Venice

1857-12-29

Franz Liszt's "Die Hunnenschlacht," premieres in Weimar

1858-02-22

Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown," premieres in NYC

1858-05-28

Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play" premieres in London

1858-10-21

Jacques Offenbach's opera "Orphée aux Enfers" premieres in Paris

1859-01-22

Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover

1859-02-17

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in maschera" premieres in Napoli

1859-03-19

Opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris

1859-11-16

Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza" premieres in Moscow

1859-12-05

Dion Boucicault's "Octaroon" premieres in NYC

1860-02-10

John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres

1860-03-29

Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn" premieres in NYC

1860-12-24

Joseph Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle" premieres in NYC

1861-01-31

Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod," premieres in Weimar

1861-05-18

Friedrich Hebbel's "Kriemhildes Rache" premieres in Weimar

1862-02-08

Opera "Lily of Killarney," premieres in London

1862-02-28

Opera "La Reine de Saba," premieres in Paris

1862-04-21

Ellen Price Wood's "East Lynne" premieres in Boston

1862-08-09

Berlioz' opera "Beatrice et Benedict" premieres in Baden-Baden

1863-01-01

Franz Schubert's "Missa Solemnis," premieres in Leipzig

1863-09-10

George Bizet's opera "Les Pêcheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris

1864-03-14

Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle" premieres in Paris

1864-03-19

Opera "Mireille" premieres in Paris

1865-04-28

Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine" premieres in Paris

1865-06-08

Tristanderl und Zusholde, premieres

1865-11-11

Thomas Robertson's "Society" premieres in London

1865-12-17

Franz Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" premieres

1866-01-15

Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori v Cechach," premieres in Prague

1866-03-30

Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride) premieres

1866-05-30

Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)

1867-01-12

Leo Tolstoy's "Smert Ioonna Groznogo," premieres in St Petersburg

1867-02-13

Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna

1867-03-11

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos" premieres in Paris

1868-03-05

Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele," premieres in Milan

1868-03-09

The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris

1868-05-09

Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres

1868-05-16

Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor" premieres in Prague

1868-06-21

Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg" premieres in Munich

1868-10-22

Jacques Offenbach's opera "Genevieve de Brabant" premieres in NYC

1869-02-26

Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic," premieres

1869-09-22

Richard Wagner's opera "Rhine Gold" premieres in Munich

1869-10-06

John Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer" premieres

1869-10-18

Henrik Ibsen's "De Unges Forbund," premieres in Christiania (Oslo)

1870-03-19

The opera "Guarany" premieres in Milan

1870-06-26

Wagner's opera "Valkyrie" premieres in Munich

1871-12-24

Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at the opening of the Suez canal

1872-09-24

Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg" premieres in Vienna

1872-11-22

Franz Grillparzer's "Die Judin von Toledo" premieres in Prague

1873-05-24

Leo Delibes' opera "Le Roi l'a Dit" premieres in Paris

1874-01-21

Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna

1874-01-24

Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St Petersburg

1874-04-05

Johann Strauss Jr's opera "Die Fledermaus" premieres in Vienna

1875-01-24

Camille Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre," premieres

1875-03-03

Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris)

1875-03-14

Smetana's "Vysehrad" premieres

1875-12-08

Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty" premieres in St Petersburg

1876-02-24

Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," premieres in Oslo

1876-04-08

Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda" premieres in Milan

1876-08-16

Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth

1876-08-17

Wagner's opera "Götterdämmerung" premieres in Bayreuth

1876-11-04

John Brahms' 1st Symphony in C premieres

1877-03-04

Tchaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer" premieres in Moscow

1877-05-13

Caesar Franck's "Lesson Eolides" premieres

1877-10-20

Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres

1877-11-17

Gilbert and Sullivan's operette "Sorcerer" premieres in London

1877-12-02

Camille Saint-Saëns' opera "Samson et Dalila" premieres in Weimar

1877-12-16

Anton Bruckner's 3rd Symphony in D, premieres

1877-12-30

Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna

1878-02-10

Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres

1878-05-25

Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "HMS Pinafore" premieres in London

1878-11-06

Henrik Ibsen's "Samfundets Stotter" premieres in Oslo

1878-11-10

Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa" premieres in Moscow

1879-01-01

John Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig

1879-01-21

Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem," premieres in Copenhagen

1879-03-29

Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow

1879-05-16

Antonin Dvorák's "Slavic Dancing" premieres

1879-12-26

John Brahms' "Tragic Ouverture," premieres

1879-12-30

Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance," premieres

1879-12-31

Gilbert and Sullivan's Opera "Pirates of Penzance," premieres in NYC

1880-02-04

Steele MacKay's "Hazel Kirke," premieres in NYC

1881-01-02

Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres

1881-01-04

Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" premieres, Breslau

1881-02-10

Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman," premieres in Paris

1881-05-11

Bedrich Smetana's opera "Libusa" premieres in Prague

1882-02-10

Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka," premieres in St Petersburg

1882-05-08

David Belasco's "La Belle Russe" premieres in NYC

1882-05-20

Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" (Gengangere) premieres in Chicago

1882-07-28

Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal" premieres in Beirut

1882-11-05

Bedrich Smetana's "Ma Vlast" premieres

1882-12-10

John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen" premieres

1882-12-11

Victorien Sardous "Fedora" with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris

1883-01-13

Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo

1883-04-14

Leo Delibes' opera "Lakmé" premieres in Paris

1883-05-17

Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha

1883-11-05

Musical "Cordelia's Aspirations" premieres in NYC

1883-11-18

Antonin Dvorák's "Husitska" premieres

1883-12-02

John Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres

1883-12-22

August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja" premieres

1884-01-19

Jules Massenet's opera "Manon," premieres in Paris

1884-05-19

Ringling Brothers circus premieres

1884-09-24

Dixey, Rice & Gill's musical "Adonis" premieres in NYC

1884-12-30

Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig

1885-01-11

Henrik Ibsen's "Vildauden," premieres in Oslo

1885-01-25

Vincent d'Indy's "Saugefleurie," premieres

1885-03-04

Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London

1885-03-14

Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera "Mikado" premieres in London

1885-10-24

Johann Strauss' operetta "Zigeunerbaron (Gypsy Baron)" premieres in Vienna

1885-10-25

John Brahms' 4th Symphony in E premieres

1885-11-09

Opera "Ermine," premieres in London

1885-11-30

Opera "El Cid" premieres (Paris)

1885-12-02

Opera "Regina di Saba" premieres in Vienna

1886-02-23

Tsjaikovski's symphony "Manfred," premieres

1886-05-19

Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Symphony in C premieres

1886-10-26

Modest Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain" premieres in Russia

1886-11-04

Edward MacDowell's "Ophelia" premieres

1887-02-05

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy

1887-04-12

Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm" premieres in Oslo

1887-05-18

Emmanuel Chabrier's opera "Le Roi Malgré Luis" premieres in Paris

1887-10-31

Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol" premieres in St Petersburg

1887-11-24

Victorien Sardou's "La Tosca" premieres in Paris

1887-12-17

Georges Feydeau's "Tailleur Pour Dames" premieres in Paris

1888-02-28

Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres

1888-03-21

Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender" premieres in London

1888-05-07

Edouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys" premieres in Paris

1888-11-17

Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony premieres in St Petersburg

1889-02-12

Caesar Francks Symphony in D, premieres

1889-02-12

Henrik Ibsens "Fruen fra Haven," premieres in Oslo

1889-03-14

August Strindberg's "Froken Julie" premieres in Copenhagen

1889-05-18

Jules Massenet's opera "Esclarmonde" premieres in Paris

1889-05-29

August Strindberg's "Hemsoborna" premieres in Copenhagen

1889-10-20

Gerhart Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang," premieres in Berlin

1889-11-27

Hermann Sudermann's "Ehre" premieres in Berlin

1889-12-07

Gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers" premieres in London

1890-01-10

Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot & Elaine," premieres

1890-05-17

Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel" premieres in NYC

1890-05-17

Pietro Mascagni's opera "Rustic Chivalry" premieres in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi

1890-06-09

Opera "Robin Hood" premieres in Chicago

1890-11-04

Alexander Borodin's opera "Prince Igor" premieres in Petersburg

1890-12-05

Berlioz' opera "Les Troyens" premieres in Karlsruhe

1891-01-26

Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua," premieres in NYC

1891-02-26

Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler," premieres in Oslo

1891-05-15

Jules Massenet's opera "Griselde" premieres in Paris

1891-07-26

Henry James' "American" premieres in London

1892-02-16

Opera "Werther," premieres in Vienna

1892-02-22

"Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James (London)

1892-02-25

James Barrie's "Walker London," premieres in London

1892-05-21

Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci" premieres in Milan

1892-12-17

Tchaikovski's ballet "Casse-noisette" premieres in St Petersburg

1892-12-18

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Nutcracker Suite" premieres

1892-12-18

Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony premieres

1893-01-07

Hermann Sudermanns "Heimat," premieres in Berlin

1893-01-10

Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg

1893-01-19

Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin.

1893-01-28

Edward Mcdowell's "Hamlet & Ophelia," premieres in Boston

1893-02-01

Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin

1893-02-09

Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan

1893-06-21

1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)

1893-10-14

George Edwarde's "Gaiety Girl" premieres in London

1893-10-23

C Dazey's "In Old Kentucky" premieres in NYC (27 seasons)

1893-11-14

Gerhart Hauptmann's "Hanneles Himmelfahrt" premieres in Berlin

1893-12-15

Dvoráks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC

1893-12-16

Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres

1894-01-09

Georges Feydeau's "Un à la Patte," premieres in Paris

1894-03-16

Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs" premieres in Paris

1894-04-19

Jules Massenet's opera "Werther" premieres in NYC

1894-04-21

George Bernard Shaw's "Arms & the Man" premieres in London

1894-05-12

Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show" premieres in NYC

1894-11-05

Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegels" premieres

1894-12-05

Georges Feydeaus' "L'hôtel du libre échange" premieres in Paris

1894-12-22

Claude Debussy's "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune" premieres

1894-12-23

Debussy's ballet "L'aprés-midi d'un faune" premieres in Paris

1895-01-13

Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London

1895-01-15

Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg (1/27 NS)

1895-02-08

Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg

1895-03-04

Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony premieres in Berlin

1895-10-22

David Belasco's "Heart of Maryland" premieres in NYC

1896-01-05

Isaac Albeniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez," premieres in Barcelona

1896-01-15

Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel," premieres in London

1896-01-23

Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E, premieres

1896-02-01

Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin

1896-02-08

Georges Feydeaus' "Le Dindon," premieres in Paris

1896-02-11

Oscar Wilde's "Salome," premieres in Paris

1896-03-07

Gilbert & Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke" premieres in London

1896-03-23

Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chénier," premieres in Milan

1896-04-13

John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan" premieres at the Tremont Theatre in Boston,

1896-04-20

1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan" premieres in NYC

1896-04-25

Sidney Jones & Harry Greenbacks musical premieres in London

1896-08-31

Louis Napoleon Parker's "Rosemary" premieres in NYC

1896-10-05

William Gillette's "Secret Service," premieres in NYC

1896-10-17

Anton Tsjechovs "Chayka," premieres in St Petersburg

1896-12-02

Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die versunkene Glocke" premieres in Berlin

1896-12-05

Henrik Ibsen's "Kejsor og Galileer" premieres in Leipzig

1896-12-10

Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris

1897-01-10

Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors

1897-01-10

Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam & Brussels

1897-03-12

Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal" premieres in Brussells

1897-05-18

Paul Dukas' "L'Apprenti Sorcier Pruimtabak on the Market" premieres

1897-08-03

John McNally's musical "Good Mr Best" premieres in NYC

1897-09-18

Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of NYC," premieres in NYC

1897-10-04

George Bernard Shaw's "Devil's Disciple," premieres in NYC

1897-12-28

Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac," premieres in Paris

1898-01-01

d'Annunzio's "Sogno d'un mattino di primavera," premieres in Rome

1898-03-08

Richard Straus' "Don Quixote" premieres in Keulen

1898-05-27

Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the Wells" premieres in London

1898-09-26

Victor Herbert/Harry Smith's musical premieres in NYC

1898-11-05

Gerhart Hauptmann's "Fuhrmann Henschel" premieres in Berlin

1898-11-22

Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)

1898-12-24

Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto" premieres in Amsterdam

1899-11-11

Stuart/Rubens/Boyd-Jones' "Floradora" premieres in London

1899-12-10

Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang" premieres in Berlin

1900-01-02

Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris

1900-01-03

Gerhart Hauptmann's "Schluck und Jau," premieres in Berlin

1900-01-06

Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso," premieres in Paris

1900-01-14

Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca," premieres in Rome

1900-01-18

Jan Blockx's "Tÿl Uilenspiegel" premieres in Brussels

1900-01-26

Henrik Ibsen's "Naar vi Dode Vaaguer," premieres in Stuttgart

1900-02-02

Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris

1900-05-02

George Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell" premieres in London

1900-07-02

Sibelius' "Finlandia" premieres in Helsinki

1900-08-27

Gabriel Faures opera/cantata "Prométhée" premieres in Beziers

1900-10-03

Edward Elgar/Cardinal Newmans oratorium premieres in Birmingham

1900-12-21

Gerhart Hauptmann's "Michael Kramer" premieres in Berlin

1900-12-24

Herman Heijermans' "Hope of Blessing" premieres in Amsterdam

1901-01-21

Clyde Fitch's "Climbers," premieres in NYC

1901-02-25

George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son," premieres in NYC

1901-10-14

Justin Huntly McCarthy's "If I were King" premieres in NYC

1901-10-19

Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March," premieres in Liverpool

1901-11-04

Clyde Fitch's "Way of the World" premieres in NYC

1901-11-11

Maurice Ravel composition "Jeux d'eau" premieres

1901-11-21

Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot" premieres in Dresden

1901-11-27

Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der rote Hahn" premieres in Berlin

1901-11-28

Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony in G premieres

1901-12-04

Anne Russell's 'Girl and the judge' premieres in NYC

1902-01-10

Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam)

1902-01-25

Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg

1902-02-01

Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben," premieres in Berlin

1902-02-18

Opera "Hunchback of Notre Dame," premieres in Monte Carlo

1902-02-28

Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo

1902-03-18

Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht" premieres in Vienna

1902-04-05

Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte" premieres in Paris

1902-04-30

Debussy's opera "Pelléas et Mélissande" premieres in Paris

1902-10-25

Maxim Gorki's "Na dne" premieres in Moscow

1902-11-25

Franz Lehar's opera "Wiener Fraueen" premieres in Vienna

1902-11-29

Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der arme Heinrich" premieres in Vienna

1902-12-17

Frank Wedekind's "Der Erdgeist" premieres in Berlin

1902-12-25

Clyde Fitch' "Girl with Green Eyes" premieres in NYC

1903-01-07

Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger," premieres in Brussel

1903-01-21

"Wizard of Oz," premieres in NYC

1903-02-11

Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna

1903-03-14

WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass" premieres in Dublin

1903-09-21

1st cowboy film "Kit Carson" premieres in US

1903-10-08

J M Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen" premieres in Dublin

1903-10-13

Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland" premieres in NYC

1903-11-15

Eugen d'Albert's opera "Tiefland" premieres in Prague

1903-11-16

V Herbert & H Smith' musical "Babette" premieres in NYC

1903-11-24

George Ade's "County Chairman" premieres in NYC

1903-12-28

Clyde Fitch's "Glad of It," premieres in NYC

1904-01-21

Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno

1904-01-25

J M Synge's "Ruders to the Sea," premieres in Dublin

1904-01-31

Bela Bartok's symphony "Kossuth," premieres

1904-02-04

John Millington Synges "Well of Saints," premieres in Dublin

1904-02-17

Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," premieres in Milan

1904-02-28

Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres

1904-03-02

Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio," premieres in Milan

1904-04-20

George Bernard Shaw's "Candida" premieres in London

1904-05-17

Maurice Ravel's "Shéhérazade" premieres in Paris

1904-09-20

George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in NYC

1904-09-26

Charles Kleins "Music Master" premieres in NYC

1904-09-26

GB Shaw's "How He Lied to Her Husband" premieres in NYC

1904-10-18

Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony premieres in Cologne

1904-11-01

George Bernard Shaw's "John Bull's Other Island" premieres in London

1904-11-17

George Cohan's musical "Little Johnny Jones" premieres in NYC

1904-12-12

CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna" premieres in NYC

1904-12-27

W B Yeats/Lady Gregory's "On Baile's Strand," premieres in Dublin

1905-01-14

Hubbell, Shubert & Smith's musical "Fontana," premieres in NYC

1905-01-26

Arnold Schoenberg's "Pelleas und Melissande," premieres in Vienna

1905-02-18

Frank Wedekind's "Hidada, oder Sein und Haben," premieres in Munich

1905-03-04

Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga" premieres in Berlin

1905-04-05

James Barrie's "Alice-sit-by-the-fire" premieres in London

1905-09-05

Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide" premieres in Detroit

1905-10-15

Claude Debussy's "La Mer" premieres

1905-10-23

Edward Milton Royle's "Squaw Man" premieres in NYC

1905-10-30

George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession" premieres in NYC

1905-11-14

David Belasco's "Girl of Golden West" premieres in NYC

1905-11-18

George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara" premieres in London

1905-12-25

V Herbert/H Blossoms musical "Mlle Modiste" premieres in NYC

1906-01-06

Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," premieres in Paris

1906-01-19

Gerhart Hauptmann's "Und Pippa Tanzt!," premieres in Berlin

1906-01-25

Del Valle Inclans "El Marqués de Bradomin," premieres in Madrid

1906-02-12

George Cohans musical "George Washington," premieres in NYC

1906-02-18

Vincent d'Indy's "Jour D'été à La Montagne," premieres in Paris

1906-03-19

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro Rusteghi" premieres in Munich

1906-03-20

George Bernard Shaw's "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" premieres in London

1906-03-31

GB Shaw's German version of "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in Berlin

1906-05-28

Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor" premieres in NYC

1906-09-24

V Herbert & H Blossom's musical "Red Mill" premieres in NYC

1906-09-25

John Galsworthy's "Silver Box" premieres in London

1906-10-03

William Vaughan Moody's "Great Divide" premieres in NYC

1906-10-31

George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in NYC

1906-11-11

Ethel Smyth's "Standrecht" premieres in Leipzig

1906-11-18

Langdon Mitchells "New York Idea" premieres in NYC

1906-11-20

George Bernard Shaw's "Doctor's Dilemma" premieres in London

1907-01-04

George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," premieres in London

1907-01-07

Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in NYC

1907-02-05

Arnold Schoenberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna

1907-02-22

Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka," premieres in St Petersburg

1907-02-25

George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer," premieres in London

1907-03-02

Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce à l'Oreille," premieres in Paris

1907-03-09

Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon" premieres in Dublin

1907-04-18

Augustus Thomas' "Witching Hour" premieres in NYC

1907-05-10

Paul Dukas' opera "Ariane et Barbe Bleue" premieres in Paris

1907-07-18

Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907" premieres in NYC

1907-09-25

Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony premieres

1907-10-16

David Belasco's "Grand Army Man," premieres in NYC

1907-12-03

George Cohans musical "Talk of the Town" premieres in NYC

1907-12-22

Saint-Saëns/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne" premieres in St Petersburg

1908-01-18

Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres

1908-01-21

August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten," premieres in Stockholm

1908-01-25

John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp

1908-05-12

George Bernard Shaw's "Getting Married" premieres in London

1908-05-21

1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago

1908-05-24

John Masefields "Tragedy of Nan" premieres in London

1908-08-17

B Tarkington & HL Wilson's "Man from Home" premieres in NYC

1908-09-03

James Barries "What Every Woman Knows" premieres in London

1908-09-19

Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony premieres in Prague

1908-09-30

Maurice Maeterlinck's "L'oiseau Blue" premieres in Moscow

1908-11-06

Leonid Andreyev's "Dui Nashey Zhizni" premieres in St Petersburg

1908-11-14

Oscar Strauss' musical "Der tapfere Soldat" premieres in Vienna

1908-12-03

Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A premieres

1908-12-11

Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden" premieres

1909-01-19

Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in NYC

1909-02-21

John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London

1909-03-06

Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda" premieres in Vienna

1909-03-26

August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti" premieres in Stockholm

1909-11-11

J M Synge's "Tinker's Wedding" premieres in London

1909-12-21

Clyde Fitch' "City" premieres in NYC

1910-01-13

JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin

1910-01-22

Opera "Germania," premieres in NYC

1910-02-07

Edmond Rostand's "Chantecler," premieres in Paris

1910-02-21

John Galsworthy's "Justice," premieres in London

1910-02-23

George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," premieres in London

1910-03-05

Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon," premieres

1910-09-12

Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians

1910-09-19

George Cohan's "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" premieres in NYC

1910-11-19

Ferenc Molnàr's "Tester" premieres in Budapest

1911-01-13

Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin

1911-01-17

Percy Mackaye's "Scarecrow," premieres in NYC

1911-01-26

Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden

1911-02-25

Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in Philadelphia

1911-03-13

Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady" premieres in NYC

1911-04-03

Harry James Smith's "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh" premieres in NYC

1911-04-19

George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play" premieres in London

1911-05-19

Maurice Ravel's opera "L'Heure Espagnole" premieres in Paris

1911-09-18

Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in NYC

1911-10-21

RS Hichens & M Hudsons "Garden of Allah" premieres in NYC

1911-11-20

Gustav Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" (Song of the Earth) premieres in Munich

1911-12-07

Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy" premieres in NYC

1911-12-23

Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire" premieres in Munich

1911-12-25

Edward Knoblock's "Kismet" premieres in NYC

1912-04-29

Frank Wedekind's "Tod und Teufel" premieres in Berlin

1912-06-26

Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna

1912-08-19

Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Shepherd's Key" premieres

1912-09-03

Arnold Schoenberg's "Funf Orchesterstucke" premieres

1912-10-16

Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," premieres

1912-11-09

Ferenc Molnàrs "Farkas," premieres in Budapest

1912-12-12

R Friml/O Harbachs musical "Firefly" premieres in NYC

1912-12-20

J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart" premieres in NYC

1912-12-20

Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faite à Marie" premieres in Paris

1913-02-03

Golden/Cawthorne's musical "Sunshine Girl," premieres in NYC

1913-02-10

Edward Sheldons "Romance," premieres in NYC

1913-03-04

Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope" premieres in Monte Carlo

1913-09-01

George Bernard Shaw's "Androcles & the Lion" premieres in London

1913-09-22

George Cohan's "Seven Keys to Baldpate" premieres in NYC

1913-12-29

1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago

1914-01-03

Kelman/Cushing/Heath' musical "Sari," premieres in NYC

1914-01-17

Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der Bogen des Odysseus," premieres in Berlin

1914-01-22

Paul Claudel's "L'échange," premieres in Paris

1914-01-24

Opera "Madeleine," premieres in NYC

1914-02-02

James Royce Shannon's musical "Shameen Dhu," premieres in NYC

1914-02-19

Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini," premieres in Turin

1914-02-24

Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks," premieres in NYC

1914-04-11

George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" premieres

1914-05-15

Henri Rabaud's opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire" premieres in Paris

1914-08-19

Elmer Rice' "On Trial" premieres in NYC

1914-08-24

Jerome Kern & Michael E Rourles musical premieres in NYC

1914-11-02

V Herbert & H Blossoms "Only Girl" premieres in NYC

1914-12-08

Irving Berlin's musical "Watch your Step" premieres in NYC

1915-01-15

Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike," premieres in NYC

1915-01-25

Giordano, Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gêne" premieres in NYC

1915-04-15

Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Amor Brujo" premieres in Madrid

1915-09-29

Herbert/Blossoms musical "Princess Pat" premieres in NYC

1915-10-09

Louis Kaufmans "Unchastened Woman" premieres in NYC

1915-10-28

Richard Strauss' Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin

1915-11-30

St John Ervine's "John Ferguson" premieres in Dublin

1915-12-08

Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E premieres

1915-12-23

J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie" premieres in NYC

1915-12-25

Irving Berlin & Harry B Smith's musical premieres in NYC

1916-01-28

Opera "Goyescas," premieres (NYC)

1916-02-17

Romberg/Hanley/Atteridge/Smith' musical premieres in NYC

1916-03-16

James Barries' "Kiss for Cinderella" premieres in London

1916-04-23

Lord Dunsany's "Night at an Inn" premieres in NYC

1916-08-31

Oscar Asche's musical "Chu Chin Chow" premieres in London

1916-10-31

Clare Kummer's "Good Gracious Annabelle" premieres in NYC

1916-11-16

Eugene O'Neill's "Bound East for Cardiff" premieres in NYC

1916-11-16

I Berlin/V Herbert/H Blossoms musical premieres in NYC

1916-12-13

Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin

1917-01-11

Guy Bolton & PG Wodehouse's "Have a Heart," premieres in NYC

1917-02-20

Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!," premieres in NYC

1917-03-28

Puccini's "La Rondine" premieres in Monte Carlo

1917-04-07

De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos" premieres in Madrid

1917-04-07

James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her" premieres in London

1917-04-12

Domenico Scarlatti & Jeab Cocteaus ballet premieres in Rome

1917-05-13

Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo" premieres

1917-05-18

Satie/Massine/Picasso's ballet "Parade" premieres in Paris

1917-10-31

Eugene O'Neill's "In the Zone" premieres in NYC

1917-11-10

Faure's 2nd Violo Sonate, premieres

1917-11-28

Sigmund Rombergs revue "Over the Top" premieres in NYC

1917-12-25

"Why Marry" 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in NYC

1917-12-25

Hirsch/Harbach's musical "Going Up" premieres in NYC

1918-01-27

"Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater

1918-02-01

Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest

1918-02-01

Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical premieres in NYC

1918-02-09

Sacha Guitry's "Deburan," premieres in Paris

1918-02-14

H Atteridge & S Rombergs musical "Sinbad," premieres in NYC

1918-03-03

Richard Goering's "Seeschlacht," premieres in Berlin

1918-03-07

H Carroll & J McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!" premieres in NYC

1918-08-19

Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank" premieres in NYC

1918-08-26

W Smith & F Bacon's "Lightnin'" premieres in NYC

1918-10-04

Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in NYC

1918-11-07

Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Misteriya Buff" premieres in Petrograd

1918-12-14

Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico" premieres in NYC

1918-12-20

Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees" premieres in NYC

1919-01-15

Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit," premieres

1919-01-15

W Collison & O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room," premieres in NYC

1919-02-03

Herbert/Blossom's musical "Velvet Lady," premieres in NYC

1919-03-05

Louis Hirsch & Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in NYC

1919-03-12

George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit" premieres in NYC

1919-03-16

Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung" premieres in Hamburg

1919-03-30

Paul Claudel's "Tête d'Or" premieres in Paris

1919-06-17

"Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres

1919-07-22

De Falla & Massine's "Three-cornered Hat" premieres in London

1919-08-23

"Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune

1919-08-30

Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung" premieres in Berlin

1919-09-01

Frank Wedekind's "Herakles" premieres in Munich

1919-09-13

Guy Bolton & George Middleton's "Adam & Eve," premieres in NYC

1919-09-20

Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in NYC

1919-09-30

Avery Hopwood's "Gold Diggers" premieres in NYC

1919-10-07

Fritz Kreisler & F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms" premieres in NYC

1919-10-10

Richard Strauss & Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna

1919-10-23

Romberg & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show" premieres in NYC

1919-10-26

B C Hilliam's musical "Buddies" premieres in NYC

1919-10-26

Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, premieres in Queen's Hall London

1919-11-18

H Tierney & J McCarthy's musical "Irene" premieres in NYC

1919-12-01

AA Milne's "Mr Pim Passes By" premieres in Manchester

1919-12-15

Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in NYC

1920-01-03

Arthur Honegger's "Chant de Nigamon," premieres

1920-02-21

Darius Milhaud & Jean Cocteau's ballet, premieres in Paris

1920-02-28

Maurice Ravel's "Le tombeau de Couperin," premieres

1920-03-02

Karel Capék's "Loupeznik," premieres in Prague

1920-04-21

John Galsworthy's "Skin Game" premieres in London

1920-08-23

M R Rinehart & A Hopwood's "Bat" premieres in NYC

1920-09-02

W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez" premieres in London

1920-10-20

"1st Year" with Frank Craven premieres in NYC

1920-11-01

Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones" premieres in NYC

1920-11-10

George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" premieres in NYC

1920-11-15

Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen" premieres in Nuremberg

1920-11-21

Karel Capék's "Vec Makropulos" premieres in Prague

1920-12-12

Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse" premieres in Paris

1920-12-21

Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally" premieres in NYC

1921-01-04

Eugene O'Neill's "Diff'rent," premieres in NYC

1921-01-18

William Archer's "Green Goddess," premieres in NYC

1921-01-25

Karel Capék's "RUR," premieres in Prague

1921-02-17

Arthur Honegger's "Pastorale D'ete," premieres

1921-04-18

Philip James Barry's "Punch for Judy" premieres in NYC

1921-05-10

Luigi Pirandello's "Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore" premieres

1921-05-30

Lord Dunsany's "If" premieres in London

1921-08-13

Simon Kaufman & Marc Connelly's "Dulcy" premieres in NYC

1921-10-23

Leos Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova" premieres in Brno

1921-11-02

Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" premieres in NYC

1921-11-07

Ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool" premieres in NYC

1921-11-29

Z Parenteau & Schuyler Green's musical "Kiki" premieres in NYC

1922-01-20

Arthur Honegger's ballet "Skating Rink" premieres, Paris

1922-01-26

Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony," premieres in London

1922-02-07

John Willard's "Cat & the Canary," premieres in NYC

1922-02-20

Marc Connelly & George Kaufman's "To the Ladies," premieres in NYC

1922-02-27

G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II," premieres in NYC

1922-03-05

"Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin

1922-03-06

GB Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV" premieres in NYC

1922-03-09

Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in NYC

1922-03-13

George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh V" premieres in NYC

1922-04-27

Fritz Langs "Dr Mabuse, der Spieler" premieres in Berlin

1922-08-28

Albert von Tilzer & Neville Fleesons musical premieres in NYC

1922-09-20

Goodman & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC

1922-09-23

Berthold Brecht's "Drum in the Night" premieres in Germany

1922-10-23

Channing Pollock's "Fool" premieres in NYC

1922-10-31

Karel & Josef Capék's "World We Live In" premieres in NYC

1922-11-13

George Cohan's musical "Little Nellie Kelly" premieres in NYC

1922-11-13

Marc Connelly/George Kaufman's "'49ers" premieres in NYC

1922-11-20

Zoe Akins' "Texas Nightingale" premieres in NYC

1923-02-01

Noel Coward's "Young Idea," premieres in London

1923-02-10

Owen Davis' "Icebound," premieres in NYC

1923-02-19

Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres

1923-02-19

Philip Barry's "You & I," premieres in NYC

1923-02-21

Andre Charlot's musical "Rats," premieres in London

1923-03-09

Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine" premieres in NYC

1923-03-16

Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche" premieres in Vienna

1923-04-09

Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman" premieres in Dublin

1923-05-30

Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic" premieres

1923-09-03

Dorothys Donelly's "Poppy" premieres in NYC

1923-09-04

A Charlot & N Coward's revue "London Calling" premieres in London

1923-09-17

Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound," premieres in London

1923-09-19

Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann," premieres in Leipzig

1923-11-19

Béla Bartòk's "Tancsuite" premieres

1923-12-04

Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten Commandments" premieres

1923-12-28

George Bernard Shaw's "St Joan," premieres in NYC

1923-12-31

H Tierney/J McCarthy's musical "Kid Boots," premieres in NYC

1924-01-06

Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo

1924-02-04

George Kelly's "Show-Off," premieres in NYC

1924-02-12

George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Aeolian Hall, NYC

1924-02-12

George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback," premieres in NYC

1924-03-03

Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock," premieres in Dublin

1924-03-11

Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife" premieres in London

1924-03-17

Eugene O'Neill's "Welded" premieres in NYC

1924-04-19

"National Barn Dance" premieres on WLS Chicago

1924-05-08

Arthur Honegger's "Pacifica 231" premieres

1924-09-03

L Stallings & M Anderson's "What Price Glory?" premieres in NYC

1924-10-14

Arnold Schoeberg's opera "Die Gluckliche Hand" premieres in Vienna

1924-12-01

George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Lady Be Good" premieres in NYC

1924-12-14

Respighi's symphony "Pini di Roma" premieres in Paris

1924-12-16

Noel Coward's "Vortex" premieres in London

1924-12-22

Philip Barry's "Youngest" premieres in NYC

1925-01-05

James Gleason & Richard Tabers "Is zat so?" premieres in NYC

1925-01-07

Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in NYC

1925-01-12

John Howard Lawson's "Processional," premieres in NYC

1925-01-14

Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck," premieres in Berlin

1925-02-08

Kaufman & Berlin's "cocoanuts," premieres in NYC

1925-04-21

Noel Coward's "Fallen Angels" premieres in London

1925-09-23

George Kaufman's "Butter & Egg Man" premieres in NYC

1925-10-21

Sidney Howards "Lucky Sam McGarver" premieres in NYC

1925-11-16

Philip Barry's "In a Garden" premieres in NYC

1925-11-28

Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville Tn

1925-12-07

Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue" premieres in NYC

1925-12-21

Eisenstein's movie Battleship Potemkin premieres in Moscow

1925-12-28

George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes," premieres in NYC

1926-01-23

Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown," premieres in NYC

1926-03-17

Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premieres in NYC

1926-04-25

Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" premieres in Milan

1926-05-12

Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony premieres in Leningrad

1926-08-06

Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system (NY)

1926-09-16

Philip Dunning & George Abbott's "Broadway," premieres in NYC

1926-09-26

JB Fagan's "And So to Bed" premieres in London

1926-10-15

Philip Barry's "White Wings!" premieres in NYC

1926-10-26

Arthur Goodrich's "Caponsacchi" premieres in NYC

1926-11-08

George Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay" premieres in NYC

1926-11-23

Noel Coward's "This Was a Man" premieres in NYC

1926-11-27

Béla Bartok's ballet "Miraculous Mandarin" premieres in Keulen

1926-11-29

W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife" premieres in NYC

1926-12-16

Darius Milhauds opera "Le Pauvre Matelot" premieres in Paris

1926-12-20

Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord" premieres in NYC

1926-12-30

Paul Eliot Greens "In Abraham's Bosom," premieres in NYC

1927-01-09

Dmitri Shostakovitch' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow

1927-01-10

Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres

1927-01-26

Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children," premieres in NYC

1927-02-02

Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's "Rio Rita," premieres in NYC

1927-02-16

Noel Coward's "Marquise," premieres in London

1927-02-21

Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch," premieres

1927-03-22

Federico Garcia Lorca's "El Maleficio" premieres in Madrid

1927-04-14

The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.

1927-05-05

Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony premieres in Berlin

1927-09-06

Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Good News" premieres in NYC

1927-09-12

Sigmund Romberg's musical "My Maryland," premieres in NYC

1927-10-06

"Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)

1927-11-03

Rodgers & Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee" premieres in NYC

1927-11-22

George Gershwin's "Funny Face" premieres in NYC

1927-11-28

J McHugh & D Fields' musical "Delmar's Revels" premieres in NYC

1927-12-04

Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Symphony premieres in Moscow

1927-12-27

Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat" premieres in NYC

1927-12-27

Philip Barry's "Paris Bound" premieres in NYC

1927-12-28

George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC

1928-01-09

Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in NYC

1928-01-10

G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in NYC

1928-01-12

Philip Barry & Elmer Rice's "Cock Robin," premieres in NYC

1928-01-23

"Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk" premieres in Berlin

1928-01-30

Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," premieres in NYC

1928-03-05

Karl Zuckmayer's "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick," premieres in Berlin

1928-03-13

Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers" premieres in NYC

1928-03-22

Noel Coward's musical "This Year of Grace" premieres in London

1928-04-09

Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed" premieres in Pasadena

1928-08-14

Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur's "Front Page," premieres in NYC

1928-08-31

Brecht & Weils "Dreigroschenoper" premieres

1928-09-07

Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal" premieres in NYC

1928-09-15

Stothard, Kalmar & Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in NYC

1928-09-24

Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great" premieres in NYC

1928-09-28

Valentin Katayev's "Kvadratura Kruga" premieres in Moscow

1928-10-08

Cole Porter & E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris" premieres in NYC

1928-10-09

Marcel Pagnol's "Topaz" premieres in Paris

1928-10-22

ESL Robinson's "Far-Off Hills" premieres in Dublin

1928-11-02

Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Phila

1928-11-08

George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl" premieres in NYC

1928-11-26

Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily" premieres in Dresden

1928-11-26

Philip Barry's "Holiday" premieres in NYC

1928-12-04

Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee" premieres in NYC

1928-12-12

Nichols/Brownes "Wings over Europe" premieres in NYC

1928-12-13

George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC)

1929-01-07

"Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres

1929-01-09

Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru" premieres in NYC

1929-01-10

Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in NYC

1929-01-21

Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London

1929-02-11

Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo," premieres in NYC

1929-02-13

Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop," premieres in Moscow

1929-03-09

Marcel Pagnol's "Marius" premieres in Paris

1929-03-18

Dmitri Shostakovitch' "The new Babylon" premieres in Leningrad

1929-05-21

Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son" premieres in Paris

1929-09-18

Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in NYC

1929-10-09

G Kaufman & R Lardner's musical "June Moon" premieres in NYC

1929-10-11

Sean O'Casey's "Silver Tassle" premieres in London

1929-11-04

John Baldridge' "Berkeley Square" premieres in NYC

1929-11-08

Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38" premieres in Paris

1929-12-30

Cole Porter's musical "Wake Up & Dream," premieres in NYC

1930-01-07

Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in NYC

1930-01-18

Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad

1930-01-30

Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya," premieres in Leningrad

1930-02-01

Arnold Schönbergs opera, Von heute auf Morgen premieres in Frankfurt

1930-02-18

Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi," premieres in Milan

1930-02-18

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon," premieres in NYC

1930-02-21

Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," premieres in NYC

1930-04-01

"Blue Angel" starring unknown Marlene Dietrich premieres in America

1930-04-14

Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe" premieres in NYC

1930-04-21

Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid" premieres in Moscow

1930-09-24

G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime" premieres in NY

1930-09-24

Noel Coward's "Private Lives" premieres in London

1930-09-25

Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it" premieres in NYC

1930-10-14

George Gershwin/Walter Donaldsons musical premieres in NYC

1930-10-22

Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930" premieres in NYC

1930-10-26

Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "Zolotoy Vyek" premieres in Leningrad

1930-11-08

Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro" premieres in Berlin

1930-11-13

WA Drake's "Grand Hotel" premieres in NYC

1930-11-17

Musical "Sweet & Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in NYC

1930-11-18

Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope and Fred Astaire premieres in NYC

1930-11-28

Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic" premieres

1930-12-03

Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen" premieres in London

1930-12-08

Cole Porter's musical "NYCers" premieres in NYC

1930-12-24

F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa" premieres in Madrid

1931-01-26

Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs," premieres in NYC

1931-01-30

Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater

1931-01-31

Philip Barry's "Tomorrow & Tomorrow," premieres in NYC

1931-02-07

US opera, "Peter Ibbetson," by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera NYC

1931-02-10

Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Harts premieres in NYC

1931-04-08

Dmitri Shostakovitch's ballet "The Arrow" premieres

1931-05-08

Operette "Land of Smiles" premieres in London

1931-09-17

Operetta "Victoria & Her Husband," premieres in London

1931-10-05

Paul Green's "House of Connelly," premieres in NYC

1931-10-10

William Waltons "Belshazzar's Feast" premieres in Leeds

1931-10-13

Musical "Everybody's Welcome" with T/J Dorsey premieres in NYC

1931-10-13

Noel Cowards "Cavalcade" premieres in London

1931-10-26

Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra" premieres in NYC

1931-11-02

Warren, Dixon & Young's musical "Laugh Parade" premieres in NYC

1931-11-04

Jean Genet's "Judith" premieres in Paris

1931-11-12

Sibelius/Ashton's ballet "Lady of Shalott" premieres in London

1931-11-22

Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite" premieres

1931-12-09

Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry" premieres in NYC

1931-12-26

George/Ira Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing," premieres in NYC

1932-01-12

Philip Barry's "Animal Kingdom," premieres in NYC

1932-02-15

John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in NYC

1932-02-17

Irving Berlin's musical "Face the Music," premieres in NYC

1932-04-04

George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good" premieres in NYC

1932-04-12

Emmanuel Chabriers & Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo

1932-04-14

Bizet, Massine & Mira's "Jeux d'Enfants" premieres in Monte Carlo

1932-04-25

Rose Franken's "Another Language" premieres in NYC

1932-04-26

Jean Anouilh's "L'Ermine" premieres in Paris

1932-05-02

Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)

1932-09-29

"Bill of Divorcement" premieres at the Mayfair

1932-10-10

"Betty & Bob" premieres on radio

1932-10-22

George Kaufman & Edna Ferbers "Dinner at 8" premieres in NYC

1932-10-23

"Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio

1932-11-29

Cole Porters musical "Gay Divorcee" premieres in NYC

1932-12-12

S N Behrman's "Biography" premieres in NYC

1933-01-24

Noel Coward's "Design for Living," premieres in NYC

1933-02-02

Ucicky's "Rotten Morning," premieres in Berlin

1933-02-20

Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn," premieres in NYC

1933-02-27

Jean Genet's "Intermezzo," premieres in Paris

1933-03-02

"King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy NYC

1933-03-04

Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC

1933-03-06

Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses" premieres in NYC

1933-05-24

Dmitri Shostakovitch's Preludes premieres in Moscow

1933-07-01

Strauss & von Hofmannsthal's opera "Arabella," premieres in Dresden

1933-09-26

Sidney Kingsley's "Men in White" premieres in NYC

1933-09-30

Berlin/Hart/Heyman/Myers ballet "As Thousands Cheer," premieres in NYC

1933-10-02

Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness" premieres in NYC

1933-10-13

JDJ Boularan's "Tovarich" premieres in Paris

1933-10-24

Langston Hughes' "Mulatto" premieres in NYC

1933-12-04

Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road" premieres in NYC

1934-01-04

1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange," premieres

1934-01-08

Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam

1934-01-18

Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in NYC

1934-01-22

Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady MacBeth," premieres in Leningrad

1934-02-10

Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount," premieres in NYC

1934-02-10

Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in NYC

1934-03-06

Sidney Howard & Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket" premieres in NYC

1934-03-12

Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler" premieres in Berlin

1934-05-25

Béla Bartòk's "Enchanted Deer" premieres

1934-08-27

Arlen, Ira Gershwin & Harburgs musical premieres in NYC

1934-09-09

G Kaufman & M Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premieres in NYC

1934-09-25

John Van Druten's "Distaff Side" premieres in NYC

1934-10-14

"Lux Radio Theatre" premieres

1934-10-17

"The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio

1934-11-20

Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour" premieres in NYC

1934-11-24

SN Behrman's "Rain from Heaven" premieres in NYC

1934-12-08

Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock" premieres in Zurich

1934-12-25

Samson Raphaelson's "Accent on Youth" premieres in NYC

1934-12-27

Vernon Duke & James Hanley's musical premieres in NYC

1934-12-29

Federico Garcia Lorca's "Yerma," premieres in Madrid

1935-01-07

Zoe Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in NYC

1935-01-15

Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in NYC

1935-02-01

1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol

1935-02-19

Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing," premieres in NYC

1935-03-21

Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier" premieres in Paris

1935-04-08

Bartoks 5th String quartet premieres in Wash DC

1935-04-10

Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London

1935-09-25

Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset" premieres in NYC

1935-09-30

Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premieres in Boston

1935-10-12

Cole Porters musical "Jubilee," premieres in NYC

1935-10-28

Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End" premieres in NYC

1935-11-01

TS Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" premieres in London

1935-11-16

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo" premieres in NYC

1935-11-21

Jean Giraudoux' "La Guerre de Troie n'Aura" premieres in Paris

1936-01-09

Noel Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London

1936-02-17

SN Behrmann's "End of Summer," premieres in NYC

1936-04-11

Rodgers & Hart's musical "On Your Toes" premieres in NYC

1936-05-02

"Peter & the Wolf" premieres in Moscow

1936-05-12

Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Poisoned Kiss" premieres in London

1936-06-09

Page Miss Glory (1936), premieres in USA

1936-10-11

"Professor Quiz" first radio quiz show premieres

1936-11-06

Terence Rattigan's "French Without Tears" premieres in London

1936-11-24

Noel Coward's "Tonight at 8:30" premieres in NYC

1936-12-16

John Monks/Fred Finklehoff's "Brother Rat" premieres in NYC

1937-01-09

Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in NYC

1937-01-25

Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premieres on radio

1937-02-08

Maxwell Anderson's "Masque of Kings," premieres in NYC

1937-02-16

Jean Anouilh's "Le Voyageur Sans Baggage," premieres in Paris

1937-02-26

C Isherwood/WH Auden's "Ascent of F6," premieres in London

1937-05-19

John Murray/Allen Boretz's "Room Service" premieres in NYC

1937-07-10

Dutch Django Reinhardts "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club"

1937-07-19

Joris Ivens' "Spanish Earth" premieres in Hollywood

1937-10-07

Johan Wagenaar's "Feestmars" premieres in Amsterdam

1937-10-21

Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres

1937-11-21

Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad

1937-11-23

Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy" premieres in NYC

1937-11-23

John Steinbeck's "Of Mice & Men" premieres in NYC

1937-12-21

1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premieres (Snow White)

1937-12-21

The first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre

1938-01-10

Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage," premieres in Paris

1938-01-10

Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed," premieres in NYC

1938-01-22

"Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH, premieres (NJ)

1938-01-25

Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born," premieres in NYC

1938-02-03

Paul Osborn's "On Borrowed Time," premieres in NYC

1938-03-16

Noel Coward's musical "Operette" premieres in London

1938-04-13

Clifford Goldsmith' "What a Life" premieres in NYC

1938-05-08

Stravinsky's "Dumbarton Oaks" premieres in Washington, DC

1938-05-28

Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler" premieres in Zurich

1938-07-21

Paul Hindemith & Leonide Massines ballet premieres in London

1938-09-20

Dmitri Shostakovitch's Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres

1938-09-20

Emlyn Williams' "Corn is Green," premieres in London

1938-09-28

Clare Boothe's "Boys Goodbye" premieres in NYC

1938-10-08

G Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid" premieres in NYC

1938-10-09

Aaron Copland's & Eugene Loring's ballet "Billy the Kid" premieres in Chicago

1938-10-15

Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" premieres in NYC

1938-11-24

Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon" premieres in NYC

1938-12-07

Philip Barry's "Here Come the Clowns" premieres in NYC

1939-01-20

Charles Ives' 1st Sonate "Concord," premieres

1939-01-21

George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in NYC

1939-02-15

Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes," premieres in NYC

1939-02-24

Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston

1939-03-08

Lenore Coffee & William Joyce Cowan's "Family Portrait" premieres

1939-03-28

Philip Barry's "Philadelphia Story" premieres in NYC

1939-04-13

W Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands" premieres in NYC

1939-04-17

SN Behrman's "No Time for Comedy" premieres in NYC

1939-08-03

Jean Genet's "Ondine" premieres in Paris

1939-08-15

"The Wizard of Oz", premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, stars Judy Garland (Dorothy), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Man), Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion), Frank Morgan (Wizard), Billie Burke (Glinda), and Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch).

1939-08-28

Sammy Fain/Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres

1939-10-11

Gertrude Lawrence's "Skylark" premieres in NYC

1939-10-18

R Rodgers & Lorenz Harts "Too Many Girls," premieres in NYC

1939-10-25

George Kaufman/Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner" premieres in NYC

1939-10-25

William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life" premieres in NYC

1939-11-03

Clare Booth's "Margin for Error" premieres in NYC

1939-11-08

H Lindsay & R Crouse' "Life with Father" premieres in NYC

1939-11-09

"Ninotchka," with Greta Garbo premieres

1939-11-17

Jerome Kern/Hammerstein II's "Very Warm for May" premieres in NYC

1939-11-27

Maxwell Anderson's "Key Largo" premieres in NYC

1939-11-30

Paul Osborn's "Mornings at 7" premieres in NYC

1939-12-03

Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Symphony premieres

1939-12-06

Cole Porter's musical "Du Barry was a Lady" premieres in NYC

1939-12-07

William Walton's violinist concert premieres in Cleveland

1939-12-15

"Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta

1940-01-09

J Thurber & E Nugent's "Male Animal," premieres in NYC

1940-01-11

Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo & Juliet premieres in Leningrad

1940-01-30

Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London

1940-01-31

C Turney & J Horwin's "My Dear Children," premieres in NYC

1940-02-07

Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio," premieres (NYC)

1940-02-08

Lewis & Hamilton's musical "Two for the Show," premieres in NYC

1940-04-04

R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's "Higher & Higher" premieres in NYC

1940-04-16

Heitor Villa-Lobos' opera "Izaht" premieres in Rio de Janeiro

1940-04-29

Robert Sherwood's "There Shall be No Night" premieres in NYC

1940-05-28

Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase" premieres in NYC

1940-06-28

"Quiz Kids?" premieres on radio

1940-09-18

Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda," premieres in NYC

1940-10-18

Kaufman & Harts "George Washington Slept Here," premieres in NYC

1940-10-25

Duke, Latouche & Felter's musical premieres in NYC

1940-10-30

Cole Porters musical "Panama Hattie" premieres in New York City

1940-11-07

Stravinsky's Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago

1940-12-23

John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance" premieres in NYC

1940-12-25

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Harts "Pal Joey" premieres in NYC

1940-12-26

JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in NYC

1941-01-03

Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia

1941-01-10

Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in NYC

1941-01-20

Bela Bartok's 6th string quartet, premieres in NYC

1941-02-22

Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres

1941-02-22

Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres

1941-03-24

Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son" premieres in NYC

1941-04-01

Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine" premieres in NYC

1941-04-03

Walton's overture "Scapino" premieres in Chicago

1941-04-19

B Brecht's "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder" premieres in Zurich

1941-05-01

"Citizen Kane", directed & starring Orson Welles, premieres in NY

1941-07-02

Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" premieres in London

1941-10-01

H Martin/R Blane's musical "Best Foot Forward" premieres in NYC

1941-10-22

Maxwell Anderson's "Candle in the Wind" premieres in NYC

1941-10-29

Cole Porter's musical "Let's Face It" premieres in New York City

1941-11-17

Virgil Thomson's 2nd Symphony, premieres

1941-11-18

Jerome Chodorov/Joseph Fields' "Junior Miss" premieres in NYC

1941-12-05

Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street" premieres in NYC

1941-12-21

David Diamond's 1st Symphony premieres

1942-01-24

Musical "Star & Garter," premieres in NYC

1942-02-08

Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles

1942-03-01

J Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3," premieres in Chicago

1942-03-05

Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia

1942-04-08

A Schoenberg & Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire" premieres in NYC

1942-06-29

Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony premieres

1942-07-19

Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony premieres in USA

1942-07-24

Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army" premieres in NYC

1942-10-07

Maxwell Andersons "Eve of St Mark" premieres in NYC

1942-10-16

Aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC

1942-11-10

Philip Barry's "Without Love" premieres in NYC

1942-11-18

Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth," premieres in NYC

1942-11-26

"Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC

1943-01-29

Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots," premieres in NYC

1943-02-04

Bertolt Brecht's "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan," premieres in Zurich

1943-03-03

F Ryerson & Cohn Claues' "Harriet," premieres in NYC

1943-03-17

F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell" premieres in NYC

1943-03-30

Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" premieres in NYC

1943-04-14

James Gow & A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World" premieres in NYC

1943-04-29

Noel Coward's "Present Laughter" premieres in London

1943-04-30

Noel Coward's "This Happy Breed" premieres in London

1943-08-09

Bertolt Brecht's "Leben des Galilei" premieres in Zurich

1943-08-11

Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres

1943-10-07

Weill/Perelman/Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus" premieres in NYC

1943-11-03

Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow

1943-12-03

Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony premieres

1943-12-08

John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle" premieres in NYC

1943-12-24

Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines" premieres in London

1944-01-23

Arnold Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon," premieres in NYC

1944-01-28

Leonard Bernstein's "Jeremiah," premieres in Pittsburgh

1944-02-02

Edward Chodorov's "Decision," premieres in NYC

1944-02-04

Jean Anouilh's "Antigone," premieres in Paris

1944-02-20

Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers

1944-02-21

"War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (NYC only)

1944-03-19

Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time" premieres in London

1944-04-02

Dmitri Shostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in NY

1944-04-12

Lillian Hellman's "Searching Wind" premieres in NYC

1944-04-18

Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins' ballet premieres in NYC

1944-05-27

Jean-Paul Sartres' "Huis Clos" premieres in Paris

1944-08-13

Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio

1944-08-21

Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway" premieres in NYC

1944-08-30

Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta" premieres in NYC

1944-10-05

Harold Arlen/ET Harburgs musical premieres in NYC

1944-10-08

Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto" premieres

1944-10-19

John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama," premieres in NYC

1944-10-21

Walter Piston's "Fugue for a Victory Tune" premieres in NYC

1944-10-30

Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" premieres in Washinton DC

1944-11-01

Mary Coyle Chase's "Harvey" premieres in NYC

1944-12-01

Béla Bartòk's Concerto for orchestra, premieres

1944-12-01

Prokofjev's 8th Piano sonata, premieres

1944-12-13

Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth" premieres in NYC

1944-12-20

Terence Rattigan's "O Mistress Mine" premieres in London

1944-12-26

Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie," premieres in Chicago

1944-12-28

Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town," premieres in NYC

1945-01-03

John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in NYC

1945-01-13

Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow

1945-01-27

S Romberg, H&D Fields' musical premieres in NYC

1945-03-06

Federico Garcia Lorca's "La Casa" premieres in Buenos Aires

1945-03-31

Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie" premieres in NYC

1945-04-10

William Schuman & Antony Tudors ballet premieres in NYC

1945-04-21

Ivor Novello's "Perchance to Dream" premieres in London

1945-06-05

Benjamin Britten's opera "Peter Grimes" premieres in London

1945-06-06

"Free People" premieres in Amsterdam

1945-06-09

"Gruesome Twosome" premieres in USA

1945-08-22

Noel Coward's revue "Sigh no More" premieres in London

1945-10-05

"Meet the Press" premieres on radio

1945-11-14

H Lindsay & R Crouse's "State of the Union" premieres in NYC

1945-11-18

Arnold Schoenberg's Prelude for orchestra & mixed choir, premieres

1945-11-20

Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th Symphony under J Mravinski premieres

1945-11-21

Benjamin Britten's 2nd String quartet in C premieres

1945-12-14

Elmer Rice' "Dream Girl" premieres in NYC

1945-12-19

Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot" premieres in Paris

1945-12-21

Gould/Comden/Green's "Billion Dollar Baby" premieres in NYC

1945-12-23

Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premieres in London

1945-12-27

Arthur Laurent's "Home of the Brave" premieres in NYC

1946-01-12

Edouardo de Filippo's "Questi Fantasmi!," premieres in Rome

1946-01-25

Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis," premieres in Zurich

1946-02-04

Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday," premieres in NYC

1946-02-08

Béla Bartók's 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Philadelphia, PA, US

1946-02-27

4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (NYC)

1946-03-07

Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz" premieres in Zurich

1946-04-18

Rome/Auerbach/Horwitt's musical "Call Me Mister" premieres in NYC

1946-04-25

Christopher Fry's "Phoenix too Frequent" premieres in London

1946-05-09

1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres

1946-05-14

Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love" premieres

1946-05-16

Musical "Annie Get Your Gun" starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC

1946-05-26

Darius Milhauds 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague

1946-07-12

Benjamin Britten's "Rape of Lucretia" premieres in Glyndebourne

1946-08-17

Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique" premieres

1946-09-06

Terence Rattigan's "The Winslow Boy" premieres in London

1946-10-07

Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet premieres

1946-10-09

Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" premieres in NYC

1946-10-10

Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer" premieres in Zurich

1946-10-18

Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony premieres

1946-11-08

Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse" premieres in Paris

1946-11-20

Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest" premieres in NYC

1946-12-19

Noel Cowards musical "Pacific 1860" premieres in London

1946-12-20

Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres

1946-12-21

Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" premieres

1946-12-21

Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show" premieres in Indianapolis

1947-01-09