Opera
- Giacomo Puccini - La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West), libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, first performed in New York City
- Jules Massenet - Don Quichotte premiered in Monte Carlo, starring Feodor Chaliapin
- Gialdino Gialdini - La Bufera premiered November 26 at the Politeama Ciscutti, Pola
- Scott Joplin - Treemonisha completed but not staged
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“I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.”
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