GIACOMO PUCCINI
Manon Lescaut
Performance History
First performance: 1 February 1893, Teatro Regio, Turin
Conductor: Alessandro Pomè
Cast:
- Manon Lescaut: Cesira Ferrani (also created role of Mimì in
La bohème)
- Lescaut: Achille Moro
- Chevalier Des Grieux: Giuseppe Cremonini
- Geronte di Ravoir: Alessandro Polonini (also created roles of Benoît
and Alcindoro in La bohème)
- Edmondo: Roberto Ramini
- Innkeeper: Augusto Castagnoli
- Singer: Elvira Ceresoli
- Dancing Master: Roberto Ramini
- Lamplighter: Roberto Ramini
- Sergeant of Archers: Ferdin. Cattadori
- Navy Captain: N. N.
- Hairdresser: Augusto Ghinghini
see also Role Creators in the
operas of Puccini
First known performance in:
- Argentina: 8 Jun 1893, Buenos Aires
- Brazil: 28 Jul 1893, Rio de Janeiro
- Russia: 31 Oct 1893, St Petersburg
- Spain: 4 Nov 1893, Madrid
- Germany: 7 Nov 1893, Hamburg
- Portugal: 2 Feb 1894, Lisbon
- Hungary: 17 Mar 1894, Budapest
- Czech Republic: 24 Apr 1894, Prague
- England: 14 May 1894, London (Covent Garden)
- Uruguay: 15 Aug 1894, Montevideo
- United States: 29 Aug 1894, Philadelphia
- Mexico: 11 Oct 1894, Mexico
- Malta: carnival 1895
- Poland: 23 Jan 1895, Warsaw
- Egypt: 20 Feb 1895, Alexandria
- Chile: Jul 1897, Santiago
- Greece: 31 Aug 1898, Athens
- Netherlands: 22 Oct 1898, Amsterdam
- Tunisia: 1903, Tunis
- France: 19 Mar 1906, Nice
- Belgium: 12 Dec 1907, Antwerp
- Austria: 22 Jan 1908, Vienna (Volksoper)
- Canada: 1912, Montreal
- Switzerland: 24 Jan 1913, Geneva
- Slovenia: 1924, Ljubljana
- Croatia: 23 Jan 1926, Zagreb
- Sweden: 1926, Göteborg
- Denmark: 2 Feb 1930, Copenhagen
- Finland: 27 Feb 1931, Helsinki
- Latvia: 25 Mar 1938, Riga
First performance at:
- La Scala: 7 Feb 1894 (92 performances in 12 seasons through
1976-77)
- Metropolitan Opera: 18 Jan 1907 (119 performances in 25 seasons through
1975-76)
- San Francisco Opera: 28 Sep 1926 (30 performances in 9 seasons through
2005, most recently 9 Nov 1988)
6 Nov 2005