Rigoletto: Performance History
First performance: 11 Mar 1851, Teatro La Fenice, Venice
(as La Maledizione)
Cast:
First performance in:
- Austria: 12 May 1852, Vienna
- Hungary: 18 Dec 1852, Budapest
- Czech Republic: 8 Jan 1853, Brno
- Germany: 30 Jan 1853, Stuttgart
- Russia: 12 Feb 1853, Stuttgart
- England: 14 May 1853, London (Covent Garden)
- Spain: 18 Oct 1853, Madrid
- Greece: 28 Oct 1853, Athens
- Portugal: 29 Jan 1854, Lisbon
- United States: 19 Feb 1855, New York
- Argentina: 16 Jun 1855, Buenos Aires
- Brazil: 12 Jan 1856, Rio de Janeiro
- France: 19 Jan 1857, Paris (Théâtre des Italiens)
- Ireland: 4 Aug 1857, Dublin
- Belgium: 22 Nov 1858, Brussels
- Switzerland: 31 Jan 1861, Basle
- Sweden: 3 Jun 1861, Stockholm
- Indonesia: 27 Jan 1868, Surabaja
- Denmark: 18 Sep 1879, Copenhagen
- Tunisia: 12 Apr 1903, Tunis
- Finland: 24 Apr 1917, Helsinki
- Bulgaria: 13 Dec 1920, Sofia
- Lithuania: 3 Nov 1921, Kaunas
- Israel: 30 Oct 1923, Jerusalem
First performance at:
- Berlin Staatsoper: 5 Nov 1860
- San Francisco Opera: 8 Oct 1923 (65 performances in 30 seasons
through 1995, most recently 7 Dec 1990)
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21 February 1996