- 1849 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Le prophète" premieres in Paris
Mazeppa
1854 Franz Liszt's symphonic poem "Mazeppa" premieres at the Court Theatre in Weimar
- 1940 Heitor Villa-Lobos' opera "Izaht" premieres in Rio de Janeiro
- 1952 "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 15 performances
Music History
1959 Musical revue "A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green" return engagement opens at John Golden Theatre, NYC; runs for 44 performances
Walking Happy
1967 Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn's musical "Walking Happy", based on the 1916 novel "Hobson's Choice", "Walking Happy" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater, NYC, after 161 performances
- 1972 Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz's musical review "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater, NYC, after 4 performances
- 1974 "Words & Music" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 127 performances
- 1978 "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 performances
Music Premiere
1981 Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn' musical "Copperfield", based on Charles Dickens' novel "David Copperfeild", opens at ANTA Theater in NYC and runs for 13 performances
- 1985 "Grind" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 79 performances
The Piano Lesson
1990 August Wilson's play "The Piano Lesson", starring Charles S. Dutton, opens at the Walter Kerr Theater, NYC; runs for 320 performances
- 1991 Leander & Seago's musical "Matador" premieres in London
- 1992 Janusz Stokłosa, Maryna and Agata Miklaszewska's musical "Metro", translated from Polish, opens at Minskoff Theater, NYC; runs for 13 performances
Mule Variations
1999 Anti-Records releases "Mule Variations", the thirteenth studio album by singer-songwriter Tom Waits; his biggest selling album goes on to win Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album
Pulitzer Prize
2018 Kendrick Lamar is the first rapper and non-classical or jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for music with his album "Damn"
Phantom of the Opera
2023 Broadway’s longest-running show, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart's musical "Phantom of the Opera," directed by Hal Prince and starring Laird Mackintosh (substituting for the ill Ben Crawford) and Emilie Kouatchou, closes at the Majestic Theatre, NYC, after 13,981 performances and 7 Tony Award wins [1] [2]
