Opera
- Charles Edouard Lefebvre - Zaïre premiered in Lille
- Adolf Neuendorff - Prince Waldmeister
- Johann Strauss II - Simplicius
- Giuseppe Verdi - Otello
- Emmanuel Chabrier - Le roi malgré lui
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“Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?”
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—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”
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