| 31/5/1884 | Premiere of Puccini's "Le Villi" at the Teatro dal Verme in Milan. Erminio Peltz was Guglielmo. Rosina Caponetti was Anna. Antóni D'andrade was Roberto. Three futher versions of the opera would follow in 1885, 1885 and 1889. |
| 26/12/1884 | Premiere of the second version of Puccini's "Le Villi" at the Teatro Reggio in Turin. This time Giovanni Bolzoni was the conductor. The singers were Agostino Gnaccarini, Elena Boronat and Enrico Filippi-Bresciani. |
| 21/4/1889 | Premiere of Puccini's "Edgar" at La Scala in Milan. It was Puccini's second opera and the libretto was by Ferdinando Fontana. The opera wasn't successful. It was conducted by Franco Faccio. Among the singers were Gregorio Gabrielesco, Aurelia Cattaneo, Romilda Pantaleoni and Antonio Magini-Coletti. |
| 1/2/1893 | Premiere of Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" at the Teatro Regio in Turin. The libretto was written by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva. It was based on a novel by Abbé Prévost from 1731. Alessandro Pomé was the conductor. Cesira Ferrani was Manon Lescaut. Other performers were Achille Moro, Giuseppe Cremonini and Alessandro Polonini. |
| 1/2/1896 | Premiere of Puccini's opera "La Bohème" at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Toscanini was the conductor. Evan Gorga was Rodolfo, Cesira Ferrani was Mimi, Camilla Pasini was Musetta. [Toscanini, Arturo] |
| 14/1/1900 | Premiere of Puccini's opera "Tosca" in Rome. The performance took place in the Teatro Costanzi. Hariclea Darclée was Floria Tosca. Eugenio Giraldoni was Baron Scarpia. Leopoldo Mugnone was the conductor. |
| 17/2/1904 | Premiere of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" at the Scala, Milan. The opera was based on John Luther Long's short story "Madame Butterfly". Rosina Storchio was Madame Butterfly and Giuseppina Giaconia was Suzuki, her maid. Other singers were Giovanni Zenatello, Giuseppe De Luca, Gaetano Pini-Corsi, Tina Alasia and Emilio Venturini. Cleofonte Campanini was the conductor. The opera was received badly, partly because Piuccini had completed it so late that there wasn't enough time for proper rehearsals. [Campanini, Cleofonte] |
| 28/5/1904 | Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" is staged at the Teatro Grande in Brescia. It was three months after the premiere in Milan that went badly. Puccini made some changes and this time Solomiya Krushelnytska performed the title part. Cleofonte Campanini was again the conductor and Giovanni Zenatello was again B.F. Pinkerton. Giovanni Zenatello was Sharpless. This time the opera was a success. [Campanini, Cleofonte] |
| 16/5/1906 | Austrian premiere of "Salomé" by Richard Strauss in Graz. "Salome" had premiered shortly before in Dresden. The Austrian premiere took place in Graz because the censor in Vienna didn't approve. Jenny Korb sang the title part. Strauss himself conducted and Gustav and Alma Mahler were in the public. Puccini was also there. The performance was a huge succes. [Berg, Alban][Mahler, Alma][Mahler, Gustav][Schönberg, Arnold][Strauss, Richard][Zemlinsky, Alexander von] |
| 18/1/1907 | Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" is performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Lina Cavalieri sang the title part and Puccini was present during the performance. Other singers were Enrico Caruso, Antonio Scotti. Arturo Vigna was the conductor. [Caruso, Enrico][Cavalieri, Lina] |
| 14/12/1918 | Premiere of Puccini's "It Trittico" at the Metropolitan Opera. It was a collection of three one-act opera's, "Il tabarro", "Suor Angelica" and "Gianni Schicchi". The conductor was Roberto Moranzoni. [Farrar, Geraldine][Fornia, Rita][Muzio, Claudia] |
| 25/4/1926 | Premiere of Puccini's "Turandot" at La Scala in Milan. Puccini had died in 1924 and his opera was nearly finished at that time. He had wanted it to be completed by Riccardo Zandonai, but his son Tonio refused and Franco Alfano finished the opera. Toscanini conducted the premiere. Rosa Raisa sang the part of princess Turandot. Other parts were sang by Francesco Domini, Maria Zamboni, Carlo Walter, Miguel Fleta, Giacomo Rimini, Emilio Venturini, Giuseppe Nessi and Aristide Baracchi. [Toscanini, Arturo] |
