GRAND OPENINGS

The 1^st May brings up a couple of opening nights in the world of performance.

The opening night of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro at the Vienna Opera was on the 1^st May 1786

The Folies Bergère opened in Paris on the 1^st May 1869.

It also marks the opening of a couple of world fairs.

On the 1^st May 1851, Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in London.

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations or The Great Exhibition, sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held, was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1^st May to 15^th  October 1851.

Opened to the public on 1st May 1893, The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as The Chicago World's Fair) was a World’s Far held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World in 1492. The fair continued until October 30, 1893.