3 May 1831 – the premiere of Zampa, an opera by Ferdinand Hérold. Hérold is mostly remembered today as a composer of ballet, but Zampa was one of a large repertoire of his operas and by far the most successful. Zampa is an opera comique, and although the opera as a whole is not widely known today, the overture is still performed regularly. Just a month after the premiere of Zampa, Hérold died of tuberculosis.