Gianni Schicchi : Performance History

Gianni Schicchi: Performance History

First performance: 14 Dec 1918, Metropolitan Opera, New York

Cast:

Gianni Schicchi : Giuseppe de Luca
Lauretta : Florence Easton
Zita : Kathleen Howard
Rinuccio : Giulio Crimi (also created role of Luigi in Il Tabarro)
Gherardo : Angelo Bada (also created roles of Trin in La Fanciulla del West and Tinca in Il Tabarro)
Nella : Marie Tiffany (also created roles of l'Innamorata in Il Tabarro and 1st Tourière in Suor Angelica; only singer to appear in all 3 operas of Il Trittico at première)
Gherardino : Mario Malatesta
Betto : Paolo Ananian
Simone : Adamo Didur (also created roles of Ashby in La Fanciulla del West and Talpa in Il Tabarro)
Marco : Louis d'Angelo
La Ciesca : Marie Sundelius (also created role of the Monitor in Suor Angelica)
Spinelloccio : Pompilio Malatesta
Amantio di Nicolao : Andrea de Segurola (also created role of Jake Wallace in La Fanciulla del West)
Pinellino : Vincenzo Reschiglian (also created role of Bello in La Fanciulla del West)
Guccio : Carl Schlegel
conductor : Roberto Moranzoni
All listed performances took place as part of Il trittico, unless otherwise noted (*)
First performance in:
- Italy: 11 Jan 1919, Rome (Teatro Costanzi)
- Argentina: 25 Jun 1919, Buenos Aires
- Brazil: 22 Sep 1919, Rio de Janeiro
- England: 18 Jun 1920, London (Covent Garden)
- Austria: 20 Oct 1920, Vienna (Staatsoper)
- Sweden: 20 Nov 1920, Stockholm
- Germany: 2 Feb 1921, Hamburg
- Czech Republic: 8 Feb 1921, Prague
- Monaco: 24 Mar 1921, Monte Carlo
- Belgium: 5 Jan 1922, Brussels (*)
- Slovenia: 10 Jun 1922, Ljubljana
- France: 6 Nov 1922, Paris (Opé&ra Comique) (*)
- Hungary: 9 Dec 1922, Budapest
- Scotland: 7 Nov 1923, Glasgow (*)
- Denmark: 23 Apr 1924, Copenhagen (*)
- Switzerland: 1924, Bern
- Croatia: 12 May 1927, Zagreb
- Romania: Apr 1927, Bucharest (*)
- Netherlands: Dec 1928, Amsterdam (*)
- Malta: 1929, Valletta (*)
- Finland: 14 Mar 1931, Helsinki (*)
- Latvia: 3 Sep 1932, Riga (*)
- Lithuania: 13 Jan 1933, Kaunas
- Bulgaria: 20 Jan 1936, Sofia
First performance at:
- San Francisco Opera: 29 Sep 1923
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