1778 - Music

Music

Milan's Teatro alla Scala opens August 3. The 2,135-seat opera house built by Giuseppe Piermarini, 44, takes its name from a nearby flight of stairs and will become the most famous opera house in the world.

Ballet: Les Petits Biens 6/11 at the Paris Opéra, with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, choreography by Jean-Georges Noverre, 52.

First performance: Symphony No. 31 in D major (Paris) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 6/18 at Paris.

Composer Thomas Arne dies at London March 5 at age 67.