The first performance of Falstaff took place on 9 February 1893 at La Scala, Milan to great success.

In the UK, the opera was first presented at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 19 May 1894 with Arturo Pessina in the title role, while the US premiere was at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, on 4 February 1895 with Victor Maurel as Falstaff.

Arrigo Boito (; 24 February 184210 June 1918 ), aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele.

* February 9-Première of Giuseppe Verdi's final opera Falstaff in La Scala in Milan

Geraint EvansSir Geraint Llewellyn Evans ( 16 February 1922 – 19 September 1992 ) was a Welsh baritone or bass-baritone noted for operatic roles including Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and the title roles in Falstaff and Wozzeck.

* Falstaff ( 1893 ), Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, with a libretto by Arrigo Boito.

* 1893: Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi

In 1893, he created the part of Ford in Verdi's last opera, Falstaff.

With that, their mutual friendship and respect blossomed and, though Verdi's projection for an opera based on King Lear never came to anything, Boito provided subtle and resonant libretti for Verdi's last masterpieces, Otello ( 1887 ) and Falstaff ( 1893 ).

* Falstaff ( Verdi ; 1893 )

A scene from the original production of Verdi's Falstaff ( opera ) | Falstaff ( 1893 ) as depicted by artist Ettore Tito.

*“ Notizen zu Verdis Falstaff ,” Die Zukunft, Band 3 ( 1893 ), p. 474-76.

Verdi's last opera, Falstaff ( 1893 ), broke free of conventional form altogether and finds music which follows quick flowing simple words and because of its respect for the pattern of ordinary speech, it created a threshold for a new operatic era in which speech patterns are paramount.

As sources, Shakespeare's plays provided Verdi with lifelong inspiration: some, such as King Lear were never realized but he wrote his two final operas using Othello as the basis for Otello ( 1887 ) and The Merry Wives of Windsor as the basis for Falstaff ( 1893 ).

In 1887, Maurel created the role of Iago in Otello at La Scala, Milan, and then, in 1893, he created the title role in Falstaff, again at La Scala.

The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.

The Confederacy selected Jefferson Davis as its provisional President on February 9, 1861.

# Count Bernhard of Anhalt ( 1140 – 9 February 1212 ), Duke of Saxony from 1180-1212 as Bernard III

* He married, on October 9, 1944, in Geneva, Switzerland, Yvonne Blanche Labrousse ( February 15, 1906-July 1, 2000 ).

# Margaret ( 28 February 1261 – 9 April 1283 ), who married King Eirik II of Norway

Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935 ) was an Austrian composer.

Abdülaziz ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد العزيز / ` Abdü ’ l -` Azīz ; February 9 / 18, 1830 – June 4, 1876 ) was the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and reigned between 25 June 1861 and 30 May 1876.

Born at the Eyüp Palace, Constantinople ( Constantinople ), on 9 / 18 February 1830, Abdülaziz received an Ottoman education but was nevertheless an ardent admirer of the material progress that was made in the West.

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

Army of Darkness premiered on October 9, 1992 at the Sitges Film Festival, and was released in the United States on February 19, 1993.

A Blu-ray and DVD release of season 9, titled Beavis and Butt-head-Volume 4, was released on February 14, 2012 in the United States.

The 9 February 1958 edition of the Los Angeles Times reported on the front page that Bardot was recovering in Italy from a reported nervous breakdown.

They had two sons: actor-musician Oz Perkins ( born February 2, 1974 ) and folk / rock recording artist Elvis Perkins ( born February 9, 1976 ).

On 9 February 1953, Bedlington Grammar School pupil Charlton was spotted playing for East Northumberland schools by Manchester United chief scout Joe Armstrong.

William John Clifton " Bill " Haley (; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981 ) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

*" Tanker Lost In Atlantic ; 39 Aboard ", The Washington Post, February 9, 1963.

The driest month of the year is February with an average of of precipitation over 9. 4 days.

* Pio Laghi ( 9 January 1999 – 26 February 2002 )

Similar treaties were subsequently negotiated by the United Kingdom ( Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty, October 1854 ), the Russians ( Treaty of Shimoda, 7 February 1855 ), and the French ( Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan, 9 October 1858 ).

On February 9, 1734, the town was incorporated as Rumford, from which Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford would take his title.

The average high temperature in July is 80 ° F ( 27 ° C ) and the average low is in February, at 9 ° F (− 13 ° C ).

* " Timber " ( Coldcut & Hexstatic ) ( 9 February 1998 )

It began on January 23, 2012 and will end on February 9, 2013.

Elizabeth Garrett was born on 9 June 1836 in London, the second of eleven children of Newson Garrett ( 1812 – 1893 ), from Leiston, Suffolk, and his wife, Louisa née Dunnell ( 1813 – 1903 ), from London.

On 9 Feb 1893 Eiffel was found guilty on the charge of misuse of funds, and was fined 20, 000 francs and sentenced to two years in prison.

The completed version of the Kinetoscope was officially unveiled at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 9 May 1893.

* August 9 – Chaim Soutine, Russian painter ( born 1893 )

* March 9 – Amasa Leland Stanford, Governor of California ( d. 1893 )

* I Medici – 9 November 1893, Teatro Dal Verme, Milan ).

On October 9, 1893, the day designated as Chicago Day, the fair set a record for outdoor event attendance, drawing 716, 881 persons to the fair.

Her father remarried in Amsterdam on 9 February 1893 to Susanna Catharina ten Hoove ( 11 March 1844 – 1 December 1913 ), with whom he had no children.

With the advent of flexible film, Thomas Alva Edison quickly set out on his invention, the Kinetoscope, which was first shown at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 9 May 1893.

# Mary of Teck ( 9 November 1901 – 6 May 1910 ) — Married George, Duke of York, on 6 July 1893 and became Duchess of York ; became Duchess of Cornwall on the accession of her father-in-law as Edward VII of the United Kingdom on 22 January 1901 ; became Princess of Wales on 9 November 1901 ; became queen consort upon accession of husband George V on 6 May 1910.

Chaïm Soutine ( January 13, 1893 – August 9, 1943 ) was a French painter of Russian Jewish origin.

Sir Victor Gollancz ( 9 April 1893 – 8 February 1967 ) was a British publisher, socialist and supporter of left-wing causes.

It is historically significant as the first Kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition on May 9, 1893 and is the earliest known example of actors performing a role in a film.

It is believed to have been filmed in April 1893 and was shown publicly ( in a Kinetoscope viewer ) at the Brooklyn Institute on May 9, 1893.

* Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 ( 1893 ), " From the New World " ( Largo )

William Moulton Marston ( May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947 ), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist, feminist theorist, inventor and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman.

However the river is no longer subject to the local ordinance of 9 November 1893, when the Town Council decided that bathing in the river was to be banned after 8. 00 am, except at Dobs Hole, where screens had been erected.

A post office opened August 9, 1866 and was discontinued on December 21, 1893.

* Record League defeat – 0 – 8 v. Burton Wanderers ( 26 December 1894 ), 0 – 8 v. Wolverhampton Wanderers ( 23 December 1933 ), 1 – 9 v. Everton ( 3 September 1906 ), 2 – 10 v. Small Heath ( 17 March 1893 )

Amasa Leland Stanford ( March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893 ) was an American tycoon, industrialist, robber baron, politician and founder of Stanford University.

Karl Mannheim ( March 27, 1893 – January 9, 1947 ), or Károly Mannheim in the original writing of his name, was a Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology as well as a founder of the sociology of knowledge.