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Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is an Italian opera from 1904 representing the verismo style. The work tells the tragic story of Cio-Cio San, a Japanese geisha who tragically sacrifices herself for love with an American naval officer. Its powerful music and dramatic narrative have made it one of...
The Thinker is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, first conceived around 1880 as part of his monumental doorway The Gates of Hell. It depicts a nude male figure seated on a rock, leaning forward with his chin resting on one hand, and was initially associated with Dante contemplating the...
Leoš Janáček’s Jenufa, composed in 1904, is a Czech opera exploring themes of love, social class, and family conflict. The work utilizes distinctive musical language reflecting spoken speech patterns, creating an intensely realistic dramatic experience. It's notable for its pioneering approach to op...
SS General Slocum was a wooden side-wheel passenger steamer that caught fire in New York City's East River on June 15, 1904. The vessel was carrying a church excursion, largely composed of women and children from the German-American community of Little Germany, when the disaster killed more than 1,0...
Bohemios is a zarzuela by Amadeo Vives that premiered in Madrid in 1904. The work draws narrative inspiration from Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, transposing the story of struggling artists into the Spanish zarzuela tradition. It demonstrates Vives' musical sophistication through its orchestration and...
SS Norge was a Danish passenger steamship operated by the Thingvalla Line and used mainly on routes carrying European emigrants to North America. On 28 June 1904, she struck Hasselwood Rock near Rockall in the North Atlantic and sank rapidly, leaving too little lifeboat capacity for those aboard; mo...
Fascination is a popular waltz composed in 1905 by Fermo Marchetti. Recognized as a Valse Tzigane, it gained lasting fame when featured prominently in the 1957 film Love in the Afternoon.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back is Lenin's 1904 account of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a 1904 novel by G.K. Chesterton set in a future England where London boroughs are revived as independent medieval city-states, considered one of his earliest and most imaginative works.
"La Main passe" is a one-act French farce by Georges Feydeau, first performed in 1904, that exemplifies the playwright's mastery of the bedroom farce genre and his characteristic use of rapidly escalating complications. The plot centers on a husband whose attempt to confront his wife's lover sets of...
Monsieur de la Palice is a French stage operetta based on the 16th-century nobleman whose legacy famously spawned the French term for a self-evident truth, lapalissade.
George Bernard Shaw's 1904 Fabian work defends municipal ownership and operation of public utilities while examining its practical political and economic limits.
Monsieur de la Palisse is a French operetta by composer Claude Terrasse with a libretto by Tristan Bernard, premiered in 1902.
A 1904 American musical comedy by Victor Herbert, notable for its Broadway run and its political satire set in a fictional Scandinavian region.
