Wagner's "Parsifal"
Jan 13 Richard Wagner completes his final opera "Parsifal"
- Feb 10 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "Snyegurochka" premieres in St Petersburg
- Jul 26 Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal" premieres in Bayreuth, Germany
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Aug 20 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow
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Nov 5 Bedřich Smetana's complete "Má Vlast" premieres, conducted by Adolf Čech, at Žofín Palace, Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic)
Song of the Fates
Dec 10 Johannes Brahms' choir and orchestra piece "Gesang der Parzen" (Song of the Fates) premieres in Basel
Iolanthe
Dec 11 Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity holds its 1st performance, W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera "Iolanthe"
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