Performance History
Premieres of the standard version in major opera houses throughout the world include those in Buenos Aires on July 2, 1904, this being the first performance in Argentina. In London its first performance in Britain was given on July 10, 1905 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, while the first US performance was presented in English on October 15, 1906, in Washington, D.C., at the Columbia Theater. The first performance in New York took place on November 12 of the same year at the Garden Theater. Four years later, the first Australian performance was presented at the Theatre Royal in Sydney on March 26, 1910, starring Amy Castles.
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