Aïda: Performance History
First Performance: 24 December 1871; Opera House, Cairo
- The King of Egypt: Tommaso Costa
- Amneris: Eleonora Grossi
- Aida: Antonietta Anastasi-Pozzoni
- Radames: Pietro Mongini
- Ramfis: Paolo Medini
- The High Priestess: Marietta Allievi
- a Messenger: Luigi Stecchi-Bottardi
First Performance in:
- Italy: 8 February 1872, Milan
- Argentina: 4 October 1873, Buenos Aires
- United States: 26 November 1873, New York, Academy of Music
- Germany: 20 April 1874, Berlin
- Austria: 29 April 1874, Vienna
- Spain: 12 December 1874, Madrid
- Hungary: 10 April 1875, Budapest
- Poland: 23 November 1875, Warsaw
- Russia: 1 December 1875, St. Petersburg
- Czech Republic: 11 December 1875, Prague
- France: 22 April 1876, Paris
- Great Britan: 22 June 1876, London
- Brazil: 2 October 1876, Rio De Janiero
- Belarus: 26 October 1876, Lvov
- Romania: November 1876, Bucharest
- Belgium: 15 January 1877, Brussels
- Cuba: 1877, Havana
- Mexico: 1 September 1877
- Portugal: 6 February 1878, Lisbon
- Sweden: 16 February 1880, Stockholm
- Croatia: 1 October 1881, Zagreb
- Chile: October 1881, Santiago
- Switzerland: 15 December 1881, Geneva
- Greece: June 1882, Athens
- Denmark: 4 October 1885, Copenhagen
- Turkey: 1 December 1885, Constantinople
- Netherlands: 1886, Rotterdam
- Finland: 17 September 1896, Helsinki
- Australia: 1 June 1901, Melbourne
- Norway: 6 November 1909, Oslo
- South Africa: March 1912, Johannesburg
- Bulgaria: 19 May 1914, Sofia
- Japan: Autumn 1919, Yokohama
- Israel: 20 November 1924, Tel-Aviv
- Lithuania: 10 November 1927, Kaunas
First performance at:
- Metropolitan Opera: 12 Nov 1886
(591 performances in 81 seasons through 1975-76; the most frequently
performed opera)
- San Francisco Opera: 3 Oct 1925
(94 performances in 30 seasons through 1997-98,
most recently 21 Feb 1997; most frequently performed of Verdi's operas)
contributed by Stephen L. Parker
Monday, 08-Dec-2003 21:39:38 PST