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Events on Wednesday 30 April 1902 1
1902Pelléas et Mélisande PremieresDebussy's only completed opera opens in ParisClaude Debussy's opera "Pelléas et Mélisande," based on Maurice Maeterlinck's play, premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on April 30. Its impressionistic score influenced the course of 20th-century opera and orchestral music.