Aïda: Performance History

• 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

• 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

• 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