Andrea Chenier: Performance History
First performance: 28 Mar 1896, Teatro alla Scala, Milano
Cast:
- Andrea Chénier : Giuseppe Borgatti
- Carlo Gérard : Mario Sammarco
- La Contessa di Coigny : Della Rogers
- Maddalena di Coigny : Evelina Carrera
- La Mulatta Bersi : Maddalena Ticci
- Roucher : Gaetano Roveri
- Il Sanculotto Mathieu ("Populus") : Michele Wigley (also created a role in
Fedora)
- Madelon : Della Rogers
- Un "Incredibile" : Enrico Giordani
- Il Romanziero (Pietro Fléville) : Gaetano Roveri
- L'Abate : Enrico Giordani
- Schmidt : Raffaele Terzi
- Il Maestro di Casa : Raffaele Terzi
- Dumas : Raffaele Terzi
- Fouquier Tinville: Ettore Brancaleone
- maestro : Rodolfo Ferrari (also led primo of Regina Diaz)
First performance in:
- United States: 13 Nov 1896, New York (Academy of Music)
- Poland: 28 Jan 1897, Wroclaw
- Hungary: 30 Jan 1897, Budapest
- Germany: 5 Feb 1897, Hamburg
- Russia: 8 Apr 1897, Moscow
- Czech Republic: 5 May 1897, Prague
- Argentina: 3 Jul 1897, Buenos Aires
- France: 29 Dec 1897, Lyons
- Portugal: Jan 1898, Lisbon
- Egypt: Feb 1898, Alexandria
- Belgium: 17 Mar 1898, Antwerp
- Brazil: 12 Aug 1898, Rio de Janeiro
- Spain: 13 Nov 1898, Barcelona
- Cuba: 1900, Havana
- Malta: 1901, Malta
- England: 2 Apr 1903, Manchester
- Netherlands: Feb 1905, The Hague
- Belarus: Oct 1907, L'vov
- Austria: 14 Jan 1909, Vienna (Volks-Oper)
- Sweden: 17 Feb 1923, Stockholm
- Finland: 26 Mar 1926, Helsinki
- Switzerland: 17 Jun 1927, Basle
- Croatia: 10 Oct 1927, Zagreb
- Latvia: 21 Jan 1928, Riga
- Lithuania: 21 Sep 1930, Kaunas
- Estonia: Oct 1931, Tallinn
- Greece: Nov 1931, Athens
- Bulgaria: 15 Jan 1932, Sofia
- Romania: Oct 1932, Bucharest
- Slovenia: 17 May 1933, Ljubljana
- Libya: 10 Feb 1934, Tripoli
- Algeria: Jan 1935, Algiers
First performance at:
- Covent Garden: 11 Nov 1905
- Metropolitan Opera: 7 Mar 1921 (with Gigli & Muzio;
142 performances in 22 seasons through Jun 1985)
- San Francisco Opera: 27 Sep 1923 (with Gigli, De Luca, & Bianca Saroya;
2nd opera given; 28 performances in 11 seasons through 1995, most recently 13 Dec 1992)
- Wiener Staatsoper: 28 Jan 1926
- Berlin Staatsoper (Königliches Opernhaus): 15 Jun 1929
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