Rienzi: Performance History

Cast:

• Cola Rienzi : Josef Aloys Tichatschek (also created title role in Tannhäuser)
• Irene : Henriette Wüst
• Adriano : Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (also created roles of Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer and Venus in Tannhäuser)
• Paolo Orsini : Johann Michael Wächter (also created title role in Der Fliegende Holländer and Biterolf in Tannhäuser)
• Steffano Colonna : Georg Wilhelm Dettmer (also created role of Landgraf Hermann in Tannhäuser)
• Raimondo : Gioacchino Vestri
• Baroncelli : Friedrich Traugott Reinhold (also created role of Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer)
• Cecco di Vecchio : Karl Risse (also created roles of Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer and Reinmar von Zweter in Tannhäuser)
• Ein Friedensbote : Anna Thiele (also created role of a Shepherd in Tannhäuser)

First performance in:

• Czech Republic: 24 Oct 1859, Prague
• Sweden: 5 Jun 1865, Stockholm
• Austria: 13 Nov 1865, Graz
• Netherlands: 13 Jan 1868, Rotterdam
• France: 6 Apr 1869, Paris (Théâtr Lyrique)
• Belgium: 22 Mar 1872, Ghent
• Italy: 15 Mar 1874, Venice
• Hungary: Nov 1874, Budapest
• Spain: 5 Feb 1876, Madrid [first Wagner opera performed in Spain]
• Latvia: 9 Feb 1878, Riga
• United States: 4 Mar 1878, New York
• United Kingdom: 27 Jan 1879, London (His Majesty's)
• Russia: 3 Nov 1879, St. Petersburg [Königsberg 1845]
• Switzerland: 22 Dec 1880, Zurich
• Croatia: 15 Jan 1901, Zagreb
• Estonia: 1902, Tallinn