Fidelio: Performance History
First performance: 20 November 1805, Theater-an-der-Wien, Vienna
(there were two subsequent performances on the 21st and 22nd)
Cast:
- Don Fernando..Weinkopf
- Don Pizarro.......Sebastian Mayer (brother-in-law of Mozart)
- Florestan..........Joseph Demmer
- Leonore.............Anna Milder
- Rocco.................Rothe
- Marcellina.........Louise Müller
- Jaquino..............Caché
First performance of revised version: 29 March 1806,
Theater-an-der-Wien, Vienna (there was one subsequent performance, on 10 April)
Same cast, except:
- Florestan..........Joseph August Röckel
First performance of 2nd revised version: 23 May 1814,
Kärnthnerthor-Theater, Vienna
Cast:
- Don Fernando..Ignaz Saal
- Don Pizarro......Johann Michael Vogl
- Florestan...........Radichi
- Leonore.............Anna Milder-Hauptmann*
- Rocco.................Carl Friedrich Weinmüller
- Marcellina.........Theresa Bondra
- Jaquino..............Frühwald
- conductor..........Michael Umlauf
*Mme. Hönig was originally announced
First performance in:
- Czech Republic: 21 Nov 1814, Prague (Carl Maria von Weber conducting;
his diary lists the 27th as the date; other sources give the 26th)
- Germany: 15 Feb 1815, Leipzig (1805 version)
- Hungary: 6 May 1816, Budapest (Pest?)
- Poland: 12 Jul 1816, Wroclaw [Breslau]
- Latvia: 22 Jun 1818, Riga
- Russia: 1819, St. Petersburg
- Netherlands: 13 Nov 1824, Amsterdam
- France: 30 May 1829, Paris (Théâtre des Italiens)
- Denmark: 17 Sep 1829, Copenhagen
- Sweden: 14 Apr 1832, Stockholm
- England: 18 May 1832, London (His Majesty's Theatre)
- Switzerland: 27 Feb 1837, Basel (previously given in concert form in
Zurich, 1834)
- Belgium: 28 May 1838, Liège
- United States: 9 Sep 1839, New York (Park Theatre)
- Finland: 22 Jun 1841, Helsinki
- Ireland: 14 Sep 1854, Dublin
- Norway: 1876, Oslo
- Scotland: 25 Nov 1876, Edinburgh
- Italy: 4 Feb 1886, Rome
- Mexico: 12 Apr 1891, Mexico City
- Spain: Nov 1893, Madrid
- Croatia: 15 Mar 1898, Zagreb
- Monaco: 5 Apr 1898, Monte Carlo
- Slovenia: 10 May 1927, Ljubljana
- Argentina: 17 Jun 1927, Buenos Aires
- Romania: Oct 1931, Bucharest
First performance at:
- Covent Garden: 12 Jun 1835
- Wiener Hofoper: 10 Jun 1869 (fourth opera performed there)
- Metropolitan Opera: 19 Nov 1884
(119 performances in 30 seasons through 1976)
- San Francisco Opera: 8 Nov 1937
(33 performances in 11 seasons through 1995, most recently in 1992)
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