Sanarchive:Selected anniversaries/January 26

26 January:  Major events in the arts

• 1911 – The opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss premiered at the Semperoper in Dresden, becoming one of the most performed operas of the 20th century.
• 1988 – Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera, the longest-running show in Broadway history, opened at the Majestic Theatre.
• 2003 – The 19th Sundance Film Festival concluded, celebrating a pivotal year for independent documentary filmmaking.
• 1951 – The film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, starring Ava Gardner and James Mason, premiered in London, later becoming a cult classic for its technicolor cinematography.

• Paul Newman (b. 1925)
• Ellen DeGeneres (b. 1958)
• Kobe Bryant (d. 2020)
• Edward G. Robinson (d. 1973)