The first complete production of Wagner's Ring , a titanic cycle of four musical dramas, opens the first Bayreuth Festival. Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House , a revolutionary play that centers on the repression of women, deeply offends conservatives and thrills a newly awakened European conscience when it premieres at the Copenhagen's Royal Theatre. London's Savoy Theatre opens and is the first to be lit by electricity. Vaudeville debuts at Tony Pastor's New 14th Street Theater in New York. The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York with Gounod's Faust .
Modern dance emerges when choreographers and dancers begin to rebel against traditional ballet.
Floradora opens at Broadway's Casino Theatre. It introduces the Floradora sextet, a predecessor to the chorus line. 1901 Founder of the Moscow Art Theatre, Konstantin Stanislavski formulates the revolutionary Stanislavski Method of acting, which requires actors to see and hear on stage as they do in real life, enabling them to react to theatrical situations in the same way they would in real life. He is credited with launching the age of the great director in modern theater. The London Symphony Orchestra is established.