1791 CE - The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, takes place at the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
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Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is a summer open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small village of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 80,000 festival visitors, and including personnel a total of roughly 86,000 attendees in 2011,[2] it attracts all kinds of metal music fans, such as fans of black metal, death metal, power metal, thrash metal, gothic metal, folk metal, and even metalcore, nu metal and hard rock from around the world.
The festival was first held in 1990 as a small event for local German bands. W:O:A is usually held at the beginning of August and lasts three days.
Since 2002, the Wacken Firefighters, the local volunteer fire department band, opens the festival.
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