Portal:Opera/Selected anniversaries/February

Marian Anderson in a portrait by Carl Van Vechten

• 10 February 1910 - The celebrated soprano and actress Maria Cebotari was born in Chişinău.
• 14 February 1952 – Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress received its American première at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
• 16 February 1922 – The Welsh baritone, Sir Geraint Evans, was born in Cilfynydd.
• 17 February 1912 – Roma, the last of Massenet's operas to premiere in his lifetime, opened at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
• 24 February 1776 - Milan's Teatro Regio Ducal which had seen the premieres of Mozart's Ascanio in Alba, Mitridate, re di Ponto, and Lucio Silla was burned down following a carnival gala.
• 24 February 1711 - Handel's opera Rinaldo premiered at The Queen's Theatre in London.
• 27 February 1897 – The American contralto, Marian Anderson (pictured), was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 29 February 1792 – Italian composer Gioachino Rossini was born in Pesaro.