 He would return to London on many occasions prior to World War I.At the Met in 1901, Scotti became the first artist to sing the role of Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" in America.He appeared, too, in the American premieres of Francesco Cilea's "Adriana Lecouvreur", Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Le donne curiose", Umberto Giordano's "Fedora", Franco Leoni's "L'Oracolo" and Isidore de Lara's "Messaline".