| Opera and Composer | Role | City | Theatre | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Amico Francesco, Morelli | Francesco ? | Naples | Nuovo | 15 Mar. 1895 |
| Faust, Gounod | Faust | Caserta | Cimarosa | 28 Mar. 1895 |
| Cavalleria rusticana, Mascagni | Turiddu | Caserta | Cimarosa | 23 Apr. 1895 |
| Camoens, Musoni | Camoens | Caserta | Cimarosa | May 1895 |
| Rigoletto, Verdi | Duke of Mantua | Naples | Bellini | 21 July 1895 |
| La Traviata, Verdi | Alfredo | Naples | Bellini | 24 Aug. 1895 |
| Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti | Edgardo | Cairo | Ezbekieh Gardens | 30 Oct. 1895 |
| La Gioconda, Ponchielli | Enzo | Cairo | Ezbekieh Gardens | 9 Nov. 1895 |
| Manon Lescaut, Puccini | Des Grieux | Cairo | Ezbekieh Gardens | 15 Nov. 1895 |
| I Capuleti ed i Montecchi, Bellini | Tebaldo | Naples | Mercadante | 7 Dec. 1895 |
| Malia, Frontini | Nino | Trapani | Garibaldi | 21 Mar. 1896 |
| La Sonnambula, Bellini | Elvino | Trapani | Garibaldi | 24 Mar. 1896 |
| Mariedda, Bucceri | Piero | Naples | Bellini | 23 June 1896 |
| I Puritani, Bellini | Arturo | Salerno | Municipale | 10 Sep. 1896 |
| La Favorita, Donizetti | Fernando | Salerno | Municipale | 22 Nov. 1896 |
| A San Francisco, Sebastiani | ? | Salerno | Municipale | 23 Nov. 1896 |
| Carmen, Bizet | Don José | Salerno | Municipale | 6 Dec. 1896 |
| Un Dramma in vendemmia, Fornari | ? | Naples | Mercadante | 1 Feb. 1897 |
| Celeste, Lamonica | ? | Naples | Mercadante | 6 Mar. 1897 |
| Il Profeta Velato, Napolitano | Azim | Salerno | Municipale | 8 Apr. 1897 |
| La Bohème, Puccini | Rudolfo | Livorno | Goldoni | 14 Aug. 1897 |
| La Navarrese (La Navarraise), Massenet | Araquil | Milan | Lirico | 3 Nov. 1897 |
| Il Voto, Giordano | Vito | Milan | Lirico | 10 Nov. 1897 |
| L'Arlesiana, Cilea | Federico | Milan | Lirico | 27 Nov. 1897 |
| Pagliacci, Leoncavallo | Canio | Milan | Lirico | 31? Dec. 1897 |
| La Bohème, Leoncavallo | Marcello | Genoa | Carlo Felice | 20 Jan. 1898 |
| I Pescatori di perle (Les Pécheurs de perles), Bizet | Nadir | Genoa | Carlo Felice | 3 Feb. 1898 |
| Hedda, Le Borne | ? | Milan | Lirico | 2 Apr. 1898 |
| Mefistofele, Boito | Faust | Fiume | Comunale | 4 May 1898 |
| Sapho, Massenet | Jean | Trento | Sociale | 3? June 1898 |
| Fedora, Giordano | Loris | Milan | Lirico | 17 Nov. 1898 |
| Iris, Mascagni | Osaka | Buenos Aires | Opera | 22 June 1899 |
| La Regina di Saba (Die Königin von Saba), Goldmark | Assad | Buenos Aires | Opera | 4 July 1899 |
| Yupanki, Berutti | Yupanki | Buenos Aires | Opera | 25 July 1899 |
| Aida, Verdi | Radames | St. Petersburg | Conservatoire | 3 Jan. 1900 |
| Un Ballo in maschera, Verdi | Riccardo | St. Petersburg | Conservatoire | 11 Jan. 1900 |
| Maria di Rohan, Donizetti | Chalais | St. Petersburg | Conservatoire | 2 Mar. 1900 |
| Manon, Massenet | Des Grieux | Buenos Aires | Opera | 28 July 1900 |
| Tosca, Puccini | Mario | Treviso | Sociale | 23 Oct. 1900 |
| Le Maschere, Mascagni | Florindo | Milan | La Scala | 17 Jan. 1901 |
| L'Elisir d amore, Donizetti | Nemorino | Milan | La Scala | 17 Feb. 1901 |
| Lohengrin, Wagner | Lohengrin | Buenos Aires | Opera | 7 July 1901 |
| Germania, Franchetti | Federico | Milan | La Scala | 11 Mar. 1902 |
| Don Giovanni, Mozart | Don Ottavio | London | Covent Garden | 19 July 1902 |
| Adriana Lecouvreur, Cilea | Maurizio | Milan | Lirico | 6 Nov. 1902 |
| Lucrezia Borgia, Donizetti | Gennaro | Lisbon | São Carlos | 10 Mar. 1903 |
| Gli Ugonotti (Les Huguenots), Meyerbeer | Raoul | New York | Metropolitan | 3 Feb. 1905 |
| Martha, Flotow | Lionel | New York | Metropolitan | 9 Feb. 1906 |
| Madama Butterfly, Puccini | Pinkerton | London | Covent Garden | 26 May 1906 |
| L'Africana (L'Africaine), Meyerbeer | Vasco | New York | Metropolitan | 11 Jan. 1907 |
| Andrea Chénier, Giordano | Chénier | London | Covent Garden | 20 July 1907 |
| Il Trovatore, Verdi | Manrico | New York | Metropolitan | 26 Feb. 1908 |
| Armide, Gluck | Rinaldo | New York | Metropolitan | 14 Nov. 1910 |
| La Fanciulla del West, Puccini | Dick Johnson | New York | Metropolitan | 10 Dec. 1910 |
| Julien, Charpentier | Julien | New York | Metropolitan | 26 Feb. 1914 |
| Samson et Dalila, Saint Saëns | Samson | New York | Metropolitan | 24 Nov. 1916 |
| Lodoletta, Mascagni | Flammen | Buenos Aires | Colón | 29 July 1917 |
| Le Prophète, Meyerbeer | Jean | New York | Metropolitan | 7 Feb. 1918 |
| L'Amore dei tre re, Montemezzi | Avito | New York | Metropolitan | 14 Mar. 1918 |
| La Forza del destino, Verdi | Don Alvaro | New York | Metropolitan | 15 Nov. 1918 |
| La Juive, Halévy | Eleazar | New York | Metropolitan | 22 Nov. 1919 |
With permission of and corrections (courtesy of Pippo Martelli, of Lecce,
Italy) by Thomas G. Kaufman.
World premieres sung by Caruso are indicated in bold type.
Caruso had sung Act II of Pagliacci in Salerno in
October 1896.
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