- Jan 5 Isaac Albéniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez" premieres in Barcelona
"La Boheme"
Feb 1 Giacomo Puccini's opera "La Boheme" premieres in Turin
The Grand Duke
Mar 7 W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's 14th and final comic opera together "The Grand Duke" premieres at the Savoy Theatre, London
Songs of a Wayfarer
Mar 16 Gustav Mahler conducts premiere of his "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" (Songs of a Wayfarer), leading the Berlin Philharmonic and Dutch baritone Anton Sistermans as soloist
- Mar 28 Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chenier" premieres at La Scala, Milan with Giuseppe Borgatti singing the title role; libretto by Luigi Illica
El Capitan
Apr 13 John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan" premieres at the Tremont Theatre in Boston
- Apr 20 John Philip Sousa's operetta "El Capitan" premieres on Broadway at Broadway Theatre, NYC
- Apr 25 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire at Cripple Creek, Colorado
- Apr 25 Sidney Jones & Harry Greenbacks musical "The Geisha" premieres at Daly's Theatre, London; runs for 760 performances
- May 20 The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Nov 27 "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel, debuts in Frankfurt
- Dec 25 "Stars & Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa
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