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1905
 
    
Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow opens in Vienna at the start of an immensely successful run       
1906
 
    
Ethel Smyth's most successful opera, The Wreckers, is premiered in Leipzig       
1907
 
    
Frederick Delius's Walk to the Paradise Garden is added to his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet to cover a scene change during the Berlin premiere       
1908
 
     
Sergei Diaghilev presents Fyodor Chaliapin in Boris Godunov at the Paris Opera        
1909
 
     
The opera Elektra, the first collaboration between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has its premiere in Dresden        
1909
 
    
Arnold Schoenberg composes his opera for a single voice, Erwartung, which remains unperformed until 1924 in Prague       
1909
 
    
Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel has its premiere in Moscow       
1910
 
     
Lee De Forest broadcasts Enrico Caruso live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, but with mixed success owing to the poor quality        
1910
 
   
The Snowman, a pantomime opera by the 11-year-old Erich Korngold, is a huge succes in Vienna      
1910
 
    
Thomas Beecham sponsors and conducts his own season of opera at Covent Garden