Carmen
Performance History
First performance: 3 March 1875, Théâtre National de
l'Opéra-Comique, Paris
Cast:
- Don José : Paul Lhérie
- Escamillo : Jacques-Joseph-André Bouhy
- Le Dancaïre : M Potel
(also created role of Splendiano in Djamileh)
- Le Remendado : M Barnolt
- Moralès : M Duvernoy
- Zuniga : M Dufriche
- Andrès : N. N.
- Lillas Pastia : M Nathan
- Un guide : M Teste
- Un bohémien : N. N.
- Carmen : Marie-Célestine-Laurence Galli-Marié
- Micaëla : Mlle Chapuy
- Frasquita : Mlle Ducasse
- Mercédès : Mlle Chevalier
- Une marchande des oranges : N. N.
- conductor : Louis Michel Adolphe Deloffre
(also led première of Djamileh)
- mise-en-scène : Charles Ponchard
First performance in:
- Austria: 23 Oct. 1875, Vienna (This was the production for which
Ernest Guiraud prepared the recitatives of the ``standard version'';
due to their late receipt, however, this performance retained much of the
original dialogue.)
- Belgium: 3 Feb. 1876, Brussels
- Hungary: 28 Oct. 1876, Budapest
- Russia: 28 Feb. 1878, St. Petersburg
- Sweden: 22 Mar. 1878, Stockholm
- England: 22 June 1878, London (Her Majesty's)
- Ireland: 9 Sep. 1878, Dublin
- United States: 23 Oct. 1878, New York (Academy of Music)
- Australia: 1879, Melbourne
- Italy: 15 Nov. 1879, Naples (Teatro Bellini)
- Germany: 31 Jan. 1880, Hamburg
- Czech Republic: 29 Mar. 1880, Prague
- Switzerland: 24 Dec. 1880, Geneva
- Mexico: 19 Jan. 1881, Mexico City
- Brazil: 23 May 1881, Rio de Janeiro
- Malta: 1881
- Spain: 2 Aug. 1881, Barcelona
- Argentina: 9 Aug. 1881, Buenos Aires
- Latvia: 13 May 1883, Riga
- Chile: 1883, Santiago
- Romania: 13 Dec. 1884, Timisoara
- Estonia: 12 Mar. 1885, Tallinn
- Portugal: Nov. 1885, Lisbon
- Netherlands: 22 Jan. 1887, Amsterdam
- Denmark: 24 Apr. 1887, Copenhagen
- Finland: 10 Feb. 1889, Helsinki
- Croatia: 18 June 1893, Zagreb
- Slovenia: 1894, Ljubljana
- South Africa: 1895, Cape Town
- Norway: 7 May 1900, Oslo
- Bulgaria: 9 Mar. 1912, Sofia
- China: 1918, Shanghai
- Japan: 1919, Yokohama
- Yugoslavia: 1922, Belgrade
- Lithuania: 7 Feb. 1924, Kaunas
- Israel: 10 Nov. 1925, Tel Aviv
- Ukraine: 1925, Kharkov
- Greece: Nov. 1931, Athens
First performance at:
- Berlin Staatsoper: 12 Mar. 1880
- Covent Garden: 27 May 1882
- Metropolitan Opera: 9 Jan. 1884
- La Scala: 26 Dec. 1885
- L'Opéra de Paris: 21 Dec 1907 (gala performance; Carmen
entered the regular repertoire of L'Opéra 10 Nov. 1959)
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