La bohème

Performance History

• Mimì: Cesira Ferrani (also created title role in Manon Lescaut)
• Musetta: Camilla Pasini
• Rodolfo: Evan Gorga
• Marcello: Tieste Wilmant
• Schaunard: Antonio Pini-Corsi (also created role of Happy in La fanciulla del West)
• Colline: Michele Mazzara
• Benoît: Alessandro Polonini (also created role of Geronte di Ravoir in Manon Lescaut)
• Alcindoro: Alessandro Polonini
• Parpignol: Dante Zucchi
• A Sergeant: Felice Foglia

First known performance in:

• Argentina: 16 Jun 1896, Buenos Aires
• Egypt: 6 Jan 1897, Alexandria
• Russia: 1 Feb 1897, Moscow
• Portugal: 11 Feb 1897, Lisbon
• England: 22 Apr 1897, Manchester
• Germany: 22 Jun 1897, Berlin (Kroll's)
• Brazil: 2 Jul 1897, Rio de Janeiro
• Mexico: 22 Aug 1897, Mexico
• Austria: 5 Oct 1897, Vienna (Theater an der Wien)
• United States: 14 Oct 1897, Los Angeles
• Netherlands: 19 Oct 1897, The Hague
• Czech Republic: 27 Feb 1898, Prague
• Spain: 10 Apr 1898, Barcelona
• New York: 16 May 1898, New York
• Greece: May 1898, Athens
• France: 13 Jun 1898, Paris (Opéra Comique)
• Chile: 6 Jul 1898, Valparaiso
• Poland: 1 Oct 1898, Warsaw
• Croatia: 11 Oct 1898, Zagreb
• Turkey: Dec 1898, Smyrna
• Malta: 1898
• Finland: 7 Jan 1899, Helsinki
• Algeria: Jan 1899, Algiers
• Tunisia: 1899, Tunis
• Romania: Nov 1899, Bucharest
• Belgium: 11 Jan 1900, Antwerp
• Latvia: 11 Jan 1901, Riga
• Australia: 3 Jul 1901, Melbourne
• Sweden: 29 Nov 1901, Stockholm
• Switzerland: 17 Dec 1901, Geneva
• Belarus: 28 Dec 1901, Lvov
• Slovenia: 1903, Ljubljana
• Hungary: 27 Apr 1905, Budapest
• Denmark: 22 Oct 1908, Copenhagen
• Estonia: 1911, Tallinn
• South Africa: Mar 1912, Johannesburg
• Libya: 4 May 1914, Tripoli
• Yugoslavia: 1920, Belgrade
• Bulgaria: 23 Jun 1922, Sofia
• Lithuania: 26 May 1926, Kaunas
• Norway: 1933, Oslo

• Covent Garden: 2 Oct 1897
• Metropolitan Opera: 26 Dec 1900 (532 performances in 71 seasons through 1975-76; 2nd most frequently performed opera)
• Wiener Hofoper: 25 Nov 1903
• San Francisco Opera: 26 Sep 1923 (1st opera given; 114 performances in 40 seasons through 1995, most recently 11 Dec 1993; most frequently performed opera)
• La Scala: 15 Mar 1897 (176 performances in 23 seasons through 1962-63)