GIACOMO PUCCINI / LUIGI ILLICA & GIUSEPPE GIACOSA
Tosca
Performance History
First performance: 14 January 1900, Teatro Costanzi, Rome
Cast:
- Floria Tosca : Hariclea Darclée
- Mario Cavaradossi : Emilio De Marchi
- Scarpia : Eugenio Giraldoni
- Cesare Angelotti : Ruggero Galli
- Sagrestano : Ettore Borelli
- Spoletta : Enrico Giordano
- Sciarrone : Giuseppe Gironi
- Carceriere : Aristide Parassani
- Pastore : Angelo Righi
First known performance in:
- Argentina: 16 Jun 1900, Buenos Aires
- England: 12 Jul 1900, London (Covent Garden)
- Turkey: 23 Aug 1900, Constantinople
- Brazil: 13 Sep 1900, Rio de Janeiro
- Spain: 15 Dec 1900, Madrid
- Ukraine: 1 Jan 1901, Odessa
- Portugal: 29 Jan 1901, Lisbon
- United States: 4 Feb 1901, New York (Metropolitan Opera)
- Greece: 14 Apr 1901, Athens
- Chile: 30 Jun 1901, Santiago
- Mexico: 27 Jul 1901, Mexico City
- Egypt: 26 Nov 1901, Cairo
- Romania: 11 Feb 1902, Bucharest
- Uruguay: 17 Aug 1902, Montevideo
- Germany: 21 Oct 1902, Dresden
- Cuba: 13 Dec 1902, Havana
- Puerto Rico: 1902, San Juan
- Malta: 4 Mar 1903, Malta
- Monaco: 28 Mar 1903, Monte Carlo
- Peru: 15 Jul 1903, Lima
- Tunisia: 1903, Tunis
- France: 13 Oct 1903, Paris (Opéra-Comique)
- Poland: 7 Nov 1903, Warsaw
- Czech Republic: 21 Nov 1903, Prague
- Hungary: 1 Dec 1903, Budapest
- Paraguay: 1903, Asunción
- Costa Rica: 1903, San José
- Sweden: 15 Feb 1904, Stockholm
- Belgium: 2 Apr 1904, Brussels
- Austria: 10 Jun 1904, Graz
- Netherlands: 22 Dec 1904, The Hague
- Russia: 20 Dec 1905, St. Petersburg
- El Salvador: 10 May 1905, San Salvador
- Finland: 20 Sep 1905, Helsinki
- Venezuela: 25 Oct 1905, Caracas
- Bulgaria: 10 May 1906, Varna
- Slovenia: 1906, Ljubljana
- Switzerland: 7 Dec 1906, Geneva
- Philippines: 24 Jan 1907, Manila
- Panama: 3 Nov 1908, Panama
- Lithuania: Nov 1909, Kaunas
- Ireland: 31 Dec 1909, Dublin
- Denmark: 5 May 1910, Copenhagen
- Colombia: 9 Aug 1910, Bogotá
- Australia: 11 Oct 1911, Sydney
- Latvia: 1911, Riga
- Estonia: 1911, Tallinn
- Croatia: 6 Oct 1911, Zagreb
- Yugoslavia: 10 Jan 1914, Belgrade
- Libya: 17 Apr 1914, Tripoli
- China: 21 Jan 1915, Shanghai (earlier at Beijing or Tientsin?)
- India: 20 Jan 1916, Calcutta
- Sri Lanka: 13 May 1916, Colombo
- New Zealand: 11 Jan 1917, Auckland
- Japan: 20 Sep 1919, Yokohama
- Norway: 1921, Oslo
- Israel: 22 Jan 1925, Tel-Aviv
First performance at:
- Berlin Staatsoper: 4 Oct 1921
- Covent Garden: 12 Jul 1900
- Metropolitan Opera: 4 Feb. 1901 (415 performances in 61 seasons
through 1975-76; 5th most frequently performed work)
- Paris Opéra: 24 Nov 1925
- San Francisco Opera: 2 Oct 1923 (5th opera given; 1st given at the
War Memorial Opera House, 15 Oct 1932; 106 performances in 31 seasons
through 1999, most recently 18 Jan 1998; 2nd most frequently performed
work)
- La Scala: 17 Mar 1900 (155 performances in 23 seasons through
1988-89)
- Wiener Staatsoper: 28 Jan 1910
contributed by
Tom Kaufman
and
Richard S. Bogart
Monday, 08-Dec-2003 21:36:46 PST