Sanarchive:Selected anniversaries/January 29

29 January:  Major events in the arts

• 1781 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Idomeneo premiered at the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich, marking a major success in his early operatic career.
• 1845 – The Raven, a narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe, was first published in the New York Evening Mirror, bringing the author immediate international fame.
• 1959 – Walt Disney's animated feature Sleeping Beauty premiered in theaters, notable for its revolutionary stylized art direction and 70mm widescreen process.
• 1996 – The historic opera house La Fenice in Venice was destroyed by fire, an event that led to a massive international artistic restoration project.

• Anton Chekhov (b. 1860)
• W. C. Fields (b. 1880)
• Robert Frost (d. 1963)