Hariclea Darclée "Roméo et Juliette" (Juliette); Jacques Halévy "La Juive" (Rachèle); Ruggero Leoncavallo "I Pagliacci" (Nedda) – opera interpreted in première for Romania at Bucharest National Theatre in 1903; Ruggero Leoncavallo "Zaza" (Zaza); Luigi Mancinelli "Hero e Leandro" (Hero) – opera composed for her voice and interpreted in prima assoluta at Madrid, in 1897; Pietro Mascagni "Cavalleria rusticana" (Santuzza) – oper interpreted in première for Romania at Bucharest National Theatre in 1891; Pietro Mascagni "L’amico Fritz" (Suzel) – opera interpreted in première for Teatro Della Pergole of Florence in 1891 and for Bucharest National Theatre in 1910; Pietro Mascagni "Iris" (Iris) –
Cavalleria rusticana in Chicago on 30 September 1891. The opera premiered in New York on 1 October 1891, with two rival performances on the same day: an afternoon performance at the Casino, directed by Rudolph Aronson, and an evening performance at the Lenox Lyceum, directed by Oscar Hammerstein. The opera received its first performance at the Metropolitan Opera on 30 December 1891 in a double bill with a fragment of Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice", and has since received over 700 performances there. Before the action takes place, the young villager Turiddu had returned from military service to find that his fiancée Lola