Tosca

Performance History

• 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, Valletta
• 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

• 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