* February 8 – Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 is premiered posthumously by György Sándor with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra

Published posthumously, it became the basis for Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck which premiered in 1925.

Claretie also wrote three operas for the music of Jules Massenet ; La Navarraise ( 1894 ), based on his novel La cigarette and written with Henri Cain, Thérèse ( 1907 ), and Amadis ( 1922 ), a work begun by Massenet in 1895, but shelved and finished in the last years of his life and premiered posthumously.

Meyerbeer died on 2 May 1864 ; his late opera, L ' Africaine, was premiered posthumously in 1865.

He turned toward church choral music, including " Aifreann 2 " ( premiered posthumously in 1979 ).

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

* 1939 – The Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.

Upon his return at imperial behest to Vienna in 1780, he wrote one German singspiel Der Rauchfangkehrer or ( The Chimney Sweep ) which premiered in 1781.

The musical premiered in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre on April 15, 1975 and starred Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, David Kernan, Liz Robertson, and Diane Langton, with Hermione Gingold reprising her role as Madame Armfeldt.

It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month.

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

* The Bay ( film ), a film that premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival

The movie premiered at Comic-Con, with OVA available in October.

The film premiered at Hollywood's Paramount theater in May 1955, under the title Bride of the Atom.

In the same year, Flockhart travelled to Spain for the filming of Fragile, which premiered in September 2005 at the Venice Film Festival.

Vernon, FL premiered at the 1981 New York Film Festival.

The film first premiered outside Sweden at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival under its original title.

The original version of Madama Butterfly, premiered at La Scala on February 17, 1904, was initially greeted with great hostility ( probably largely owing to inadequate rehearsals ).

Puccini completed the score of La rondine, to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami in 1916 after two years of work, and it was premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.

* Le Villi, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana ( in one act – premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme, 31 May 1884 )

* Edgar, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana ( in four acts – premiered at La Scala, 21 April 1889 )

* Manon Lescaut, libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva ( premiered at the Teatro Regio, 1 February 1893 )

* La bohème, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa ( premiered at the Teatro Regio of Torino, 1 February 1896 )

* Tosca, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa ( premiered at the Teatro Costanzi, 14 January 1900 )

* Madama Butterfly, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa ( in two acts – premiered at La Scala, 17 February 1904 )

* La fanciulla del West, libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini ( premiered at the Metropolitan Opera, 10 December 1910 )

* La rondine, libretto by Giuseppe Adami ( premiered at the Opéra of Monte Carlo, 27 March 1917 )

* Il trittico ( premiered at the Metropolitan Opera, 14 December 1918 )

* Turandot, libretto by Renato Simoni and Giuseppe Adami ( incomplete at the time of Puccini's death, completed by Franco Alfano: premiered at La Scala, 25 April 1926

Filming was finished in late May 1930 and premiered in July, setting a first week box office record at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York.

Whale also directed this version, which premiered at Henry Miller's Theatre on 22 March 1929.

It premiered at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964 under the direction of Michael Codron.

* A biographical musical of Rockne's life premiered at the Theatre at the Center in Munster, Indiana, on April 3, 2008.

* 1956 – My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.

* Mirror Mirror ( 1978, premiered at Pentameters Theatre with Eva Gray in the role of Eleanor Bryant, to be reprised in 2013 )

This became the one-act play The Bed-Sitting Room, which Milligan co-wrote with John Antrobus, and which premiered at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury on 12 February 1962.

By Bernstein premiered at the off-Broadway Westside Theatre on November 23, 1975 and closed on December 7, 1975.

A revised version, Sondheim on Sondheim, was produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company and premiered on Broadway at Studio 54 in a limited engagement from March 19, 2010 in previews, opening April 22 through June 13.

The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets — a theatrical collaboration of Waits, director Robert Wilson, and writer William S. Burroughs — premiered at Hamburg's Thalia Theatre on March 31, 1990.

On December 19, 1992 Alice, Waits's second theatrical project with Robert Wilson, premiered at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg.

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

A Philippine version premiered on September 5, 2008 at the Meralco Theatre.

* January 15 – The Sleeping Beauty ( ballet ) with music by Tchaikovsky is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia.

* December 18 – The Nutcracker ballet with music by Tchaikovsky is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia.

He had a brief success with Zingari which premiered in Italian in London in 1912, with a long run at the Hippodrome Theatre.

It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga ( now called the Estates Theatre ) on October 29, 1787.

The Original Version of 1869 premiered on 16 February 1928 at the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

The film premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City on July 22, 1947.

The film, which premiered in Los Angeles at the Carthay Circle Theatre, was the first musical film in history for which one of its cast members won an Academy Award-Luise Rainer received the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Ziegfeld's first wife, Anna Held.

The play premiered in London in 1931 at the large Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

The play premiered in San Francisco at the Exit Theatre and made its European premiere in Dublin, at The Mill Theatre Dundrum, directed by Graham Cantwell.