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OPERA IN PHILADELPHIAPERFORMANCE CHRONOLOGY 1900 - 1924

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sources

• Metropolitan Opera Archives, computer database (Robert Tuggle)

• Academy of Music / Philadelphia Orchestra Archives (Joanne E. Barry)

• Historical Society of Pennsylvania [author: John Curtis]:Typescript:Grand Opera in Philadelphia: Vol. 3, Sect 2 1898-1910: John Curtis

Author’s title: One Hundred Years of Grand Opera in Philadelphia:Third Volume, Section Two

• (The final volume of the John Curtis work, covering 1910-1918, has been lost or destroyed)Author’s title: One Hundred Years of Grand Opera in Philadelphia

• Historical Society of Pennsylvania [author: John Curtis]:Typescript:Grand Opera in Philadelphia: Vol. 3, Sect 3 1919-1922: John Curtis

Author’s title: Philadelphia’s Second Century of Opera

• A History of the Savoy Company 1901-1940: William C. Ferguson, Jr.: The Savo yCompany,Philadelphia 1940.

• Historical Society of Pennsylvania:Folder: Playbill : 1908

• Free Library of Philadelphia:Folder: Savage, Henry - Opera CompanyFolder: Savo yGrand Opera Company

• Oscar Hammerstein’s Manhattan Opera Company: John Frederick Cone: University ofOklahoma Press, Norman 1966.

• Manhattan Opera Company 1906-1910: Charles Jahant: Baltimore: copy held privately byCharles Mintzer of New York; Jahant’s original manuscript now in the Metropolitan OperaArchives, New York.

• Hammerstein’s Philadelphia Opera 1908-1909: Charles Jahant: Baltimore: . . .

• Free Library of Philadelphia:Folder: Philadelphia Opera House (Souvenir Program Opening Night - 1908)Folder: Hammerstein (Oscar) Grand Opera at the Phila Opera House (two folders)

• Free Library of Philadelphia:Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1911/12Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1912/13Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1913/14Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1914/15Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1915/16Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1916/17Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1917/18Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1918/19Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1919/20Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1920/21

• Free Library of Philadelphia:Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1921/22Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1922/23Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1923/24Bound: Metropolitan Opera House (Phil., Pa.) Grand O. 782.1073 M567g 1924/25

• Free Library of Philadelphia:Folder: Philadelphia Chicago (Grand) Opera Company (1910-11)Folder: Philadelphia Chicago (Grand) Opera Company (1911-12)Folder: Philadelphia Chicago (Grand) Opera Company (1912-13)Folder: Philadelphia Chicago (Grand) Opera Company (1913-14)Folder: Philadelphia Chicago (Grand) Opera Company (1913-14 continued)

• Free Library of Philadelphia:Folder: Boston (or Boston National) Grand Opera CompanyFolder: Boston English Opera Company

• New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center: (7 *MBD):Bound: Metropolitan Opera House : Programmes : 1910-11Bound: Metropolitan Opera House : Programmes : Nov. 13, 1911 - Apr. 14, 1912Bound: Metropolitan Opera House : Programmes : Nov. 11 - Feb. 2, 1912-13Bound: Metropolitan Opera House : Programmes : Feb. 3 - Apr. 19, 1913Bound: Metropolitan Opera House : Programmes : Nov. 17, 1913 - Feb. 8, 1914Bound: Metropolitan Opera House : Programmes : Feb. 9 - Apr. 26, 1914

• Free Library of Philadelphia:Folder: Philadelphia Grand Opera Company 1916-1934 miscellaneous

• Free Library of Philadelphia:Folder: San Carlo Grand Opera Co. 1921-22Folder: San Carlo Grand Opera Co. 1922-23Folder: San Carlo Grand Opera Co. 1923-24Folder: San Carlo Grand Opera Co. 1924-Folder: San Carlo Grand Opera Co. undated

• San Carlo Opera Co. of America 1913-1955 : Grand Opera for Profit: Cardell Bishop:published privately by Cardell Bishop, Cudahy, California.

• Chicago-Philadelphia Opera 1911-1914: Charles Jahant: Baltimore: . . .

• Chicago Opera 1915-1946: Charles Jahant: Baltimore: . . .

• Forty Years of Opera in Chicago: Edward C. Moore: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930.

• Opera in Chicago: Ronald L. Davis: Appleton-Century, New York, 1966.

• Free Library of Philadelphia:Folder: 1919 Chicago Opera AssociationFolder: 1922 Chicago Opera AssociationFolder: Phila Operatic Society 1919 [sic. (1907-1919)]Folder: Phila Operatic Society 1920 [sic. (1932-1963)]Folder: Russian Grand Opera CompanyFolder: Scotti Grand Opera Co.

• New York Public Library : Humanities and Social Sciences Library:Microfilm: Philadelphia Public Ledger 1910: R-205 - R-208Microfilm: Philadelphia Public Ledger 1911: R-209 - R-214Microfilm: Philadelphia Public Ledger 1912: R-215 - R-220Microfilm: Philadelphia Public Ledger 1916: R-267 - R-267

• New York Public Library : Humanities and Social Sciences Library:Microfilm: Philadelphia Inquirer 1910: R-275 - R-282Microfilm: Philadelphia Inquirer 1911: R-283 - R-286Microfilm: Philadelphia Inquirer 1912: R-295 - R-306Microfilm: Philadelphia Inquirer 1913: R-307 - R-318Microfilm: Philadelphia Inquirer 1914: R-319 - R-330Microfilm: Philadelphia Inquirer 1915: R-331 - R-342Microfilm: Philadelphia Inquirer 1916: R-343 - R-354Microfilm: Philadelphia Inquirer 1917: R-355 - R-366Microfilm: Philadelphia Inquirer 1918: R-367 - R-390Microfilm: Philadelphia Inquirer 1923: R-487 - R-496Microfilm: Philadelphia Inquirer 1924: R-529 - R-534

19001/02/00: Lohengrin: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Heinrich der Vogler Edouard de ReszkeLohengrin Ernest van Dyck

Elsa von Brabant Lillian NordicaFriedrich von Telramund Theodore Bertram

Ortrud Ernestine Schumann-HeinkDer Heerrufer des Königs Adolph Mühlmann

maestro direttore Emil Paur

1/04/00: Carmen: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Carmen Emma CalvéDon José Albert SalézaEscamillo Giuseppe Campanari

Micaëla Suzanne AdamsFr asquita Mathilde BauermeisterMercédès Marie van Cauteren

Zuniga Herman DevrièsMoralès Jacques Bars

Le Dancaïre Eugène DufricheLe Remendado Auguste Queyla

maestro direttore Enrico Bevignani

1/09/00: Der fliegende Holländer: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Daland Lampriere Pringle Edouard de Reszke

Senta Johanna GadskiErik Andreas Dippel

Mary Ernestine Schumann-HeinkDer Steuermann DalandsHans Breuer

Der Holländer Theodore Bertrammaestro direttore Emil Paur

1/11/00: Le nozze di Figaro: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Il conte d’Almaviva Edouard de ReszkeLa contessa d’Almaviva Emma Eames

Susanna Marcella SembrichFigaro Giuseppe Campanari

Cherubino Zélie de LussanMarcellina Mathilde Bauermeister

Doctor Bartolo Antonio Pini-CorsiDon Basilio Roberto VanniDon Curzio Catullo Maestri

Antonio Eugène Dufrichemaestro direttore Luigi Mancinelli

1/16/00: Le prophète: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Jean de Leyde Albert AlvarezBerthe Suzanne AdamsFidès Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Zacharie Edouard de ReszkeJonas Jacques Bars

Mathisen Herman DevrièsLe comte d’Oberthal Eugène Dufriche

maestro direttore Luigi Mancinelli

Luigi Albertieri

1/18/00: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Il conte d’Almaviva Thomas SalignacIl dottore Bartolo Antonio Pini-Corsi

Rosina Marcella SembrichFigaro Giuseppe Campanari

Don Basilio Edouard de ReszkeFiorello Theodore Meux

Berta Mathilde BauermeisterUn ufficiale Theodore Meux


1/23/00: Don Pasquale: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Don Pasquale Antonio Pini-CorsiErnesto Thomas Salignac

Dottor Malatesta Antonio ScottiNorina Marcella Sembrich

Un notaio (Carlotto) Auguste Queylamaestro direttore Enrico Bevignani

Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Santuzza Emma CalvéLola Eugenia Mantelli

Turiddu Albert SalézaAlfio Giuseppe Campanari

Lucia Mathilde Bauermeistermaestro direttore Enrico Bevignani

1/25/00: Don Giovanni: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Don Giovanni Antonio ScottiIl Commendatore Herman Devriès

Donna Anna Lillian NordicaDonna Elvira Clémentine de VereDon Ottavio Thomas Salignac

Leporello Edouard de ReszkeZerlina Marcella SembrichMasetto Antonio Pini-Corsi


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1/30/00: Die Meistersinger: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Hans Sachs Anton van RooyVeit Pogner Theodore Bertram

Kunz Vogelgesang Roberto VanniKonrad Nachtigall Arturo BorinSixtus BeckmesserFritz Friedrichs

Fritz Kothner Adolph MühlmannBalthasar Zorn Auguste Queyla

Ulrich Eißlinger Mr. BertinettiAugustin Moser Catullo MaestriHermann Ortel Theodore MeuxHans Schwarz Otto Weber

Hans Foltz Giuseppe CernuscoWalter von Stolzing Andreas Dippel

David Hans BreuerEva Johanna Gadski

Magdalene Ernestine Schumann-HeinkEin Nachtwächter Lampriere Pringlemaestro direttore Emil Paur

2/01/00: Faust: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Le docteur Faust Albert SalézaMéphistophélès Edouard de Reszke

Marguerite Emma CalvéValentin Antonio Scotti

Siébel Rosa OlitzkaDame Marthe Schwertlein Mathilde Bauermeister

Wa gner Theodore Meuxmaestro direttore Enrico Bevignani

2/06/00: Das Rheingold: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): stage directorPierre Baudu

Wotan Anton van RooyDonner Herman Devriès

Fr oh Andreas DippelLoge Ernest van Dyck

Alberich Fritz FriedrichsMime Hans BreuerFasolt Adolph MühlmannFafner Lampriere PringleFricka Marie BremaFr eia Susan StrongErda Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Wo glinde Olga PevnyWellgunde Rosa OlitzkaFloßhilde Ernestine Schumann-Heink


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2/08/00: Die Walküre: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Siegmund Ernest van DyckHunding Lampriere Pringle

Wotan Anton van RooySieglinde Susan Strong Emma Eames

Brünnhilde Marie BremaFricka Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Gerhilde Marie van CauterenOrtlinde Mathilde Bauermeister

Waltraute Ernestine Schumann-HeinkSchwertleite Rosa Olitzka

Helmwige Olga PevnySiegrune Isabelle Bouton

Grimgerde Minnie Molka-KelloggRoßweiße Eleanor Broadfoot (lka: Eleanora de Cisneros)


2/13/00: Siegfried: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): director Pierre Baudu

Siegfried Andreas DippelMime Hans Breuer

Der Wanderer Anton van RooyAlberich Fritz Friedrichs

Fafner Lampriere PringleErda Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Brünnhilde Milka TerninaStimme des WaldvogelsOlga Pevny


2/15/00: Götterdämmerung: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): stage directorPierre Baudu

Siegfried Andreas DippelGunther Adolph Mühlmann

Hagen Edouard de ReszkeAlberich Fritz Friedrichs

Brünnhilde Lillian NordicaGutrune Susan Strong

Waltraute Ernestine Schumann-HeinkErste Norn Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Zweite Norn Rosa OlitzkaDritte Norn Olga Pevny

Wo glinde Olga PevnyWellgunde Minnie Molka-KelloggFloßhilde Rosa Olitzka


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2/22/00: Aida: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Il re d’Egitto Herman DevrièsAmneris Eleanor Broadfoot

Aida Emma EamesRadamès Julius Perotti

Ramfis Edouard de ReszkeAmonasro Antonio Scotti

Un messaggero Roberto VanniUna sacerdotessa unknownmaestro direttore Enrico Bevignani

Miss Bartho

3/06/00: Tristan und Isolde: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Isolde Milka TerninaTristan Ernest van Dyck

Brangäne Ernestine Schumann-HeinkKurwenal Anton van Rooy

König Marke Edouard de ReszkeMelot Hans Breuer

Ein junger Seemann Jacques BarsEin Hirt Hans Breuer

Der Steuermann Theodore Meuxmaestro direttore Emil Paur

3/08/00: Les huguenots(Italian): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Marguerite de Valois Suzanne AdamsRaoul de Nangis Pierre Cornubert

Valentine Clémentine de VereLe comte de NeversAntonio Scotti

Urbain Eugenia MantelliLe comte de Saint-Bris Eugène Dufriche

Marcel Edouard de ReszkeTavannes Auguste QueylaDe Cossé Roberto Vanni

De Retz Theodore Meux

Deux demoiselles d’honneur de la reine Mathilde Bauermeister

Marie van CauterenBois-Rosé Jacques BarsMaurevert Theodore MeuxWatchman Lampriere Pringle


Miss BarthoLuigi Albertieri

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3/13/00: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Il conte di Luna Giuseppe CampanariLeonora Lillian NordicaAzucena Eugenia MantelliManrico Julius Perotti

Ferrando Lampriere PringleInes Marie van CauterenRuiz Roberto Vanni


3/13/00: Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Canio Lucia CormaniNedda Suzanne AdamsTonio Antonio ScottiBeppe Jacques BarsSilvio Adolph Mühlmann


3/15/00: Carmen: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Carmen Emma CalvéDon José Thomas SalignacEscamillo Pol Plançon


Zuniga Theodore MeuxMoralès Roberto Vanni

Le Dancaïre Eugène DufricheLe Remendado Auguste Queyla


12/20/00: Faust: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Le docteur Faust Giuseppe CremoniniMéphistophélès Edouard de Reszke

Marguerite Nellie MelbaValentin Giuseppe Campanari

Siébel Louise HomerDame Marthe Schwertlein Mathilde Bauermeister

Wa gner Eugène Dufrichemaestro direttore Luigi Mancinelli


Heinrich der Vogler Edouard de ReszkeLohengrin Andreas Dippel

Elsa von Brabant Lillian NordicaFriedrich von Telramund David Bispham


maestro direttore Walter Damrosch

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12/27/00: Tannhäuser: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Hermann Pol PlançonTannhäuser Ernest van Dyck

Wolfram von EschenbachTheodore BertramWalter von der Vogelweide Jacques Bars

Biterolf Adolph MühlmannHeinrich der Schreiber Adolph von Hübbenet

Reinmar von Zweter Lodovico VivianiElisabeth Johanna Gadski

Venus Susan StrongEin Hirtenknabe Rosa Olitzkamaestro direttore Walter Damrosch

19011/01/01: La bohème: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Mimì Nellie MelbaRodolfo Albert Saléza

Marcello Giuseppe CampanariSchaunard Charles Gilibert

Colline Marcel Journet

Eugène DufricheBenoît

AlcindoroMusetta Fritzi Scheff

Parpignol Aristide Masieromaestro direttore Luigi Mancinelli

1/03/01: Fidelio: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Don Fernando Adolph MühlmannDon Pizarro Theodore Bertram

Florestan Andreas DippelLeonore Milka Ternina

Rocco Robert BlassMarzelline Fritzi Scheff

Jaquino Adolph von Hübbenetmaestro direttore Walter Damrosch

1/05/01: Don Pasquale: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Sembrich Opera Company, C. L. Graff), matinée

Don Pasquale Arcangelo RossiErnesto M. De Lara

Dottor Malatesta Maurizio BensaudeNorina Marcella Sembrich

Un notaio M. Galazzimaestro direttore Enrico Bevignani

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1/08/01: Les huguenots: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Marguerite de Valois Suzanne AdamsRaoul de Nangis Albert Saléza

Valentine Johanna GadskiLe comte de NeversEugène Sizes

Urbain Louise HomerLe comte de Saint-Bris Pol Plançon

Marcel Edouard de ReszkeTavannes Adolph von HübbenetDe Cossé Aristide Masiero

De Retz Lodovico Viviani


Marie van CauterenBois-Rosé Jacques BarsMaurevert Eugène Dufriche

maestro direttore Philippe Flon


Siegmund Ernest van DyckHunding Robert Blass

Wotan Theodore BertramSieglinde Johanna Gadski

Brünnhilde Milka TerninaFricka Rosa Olitzka


Waltraute Rosa OlitzkaSchwertleite Louise Homer

Helmwige Fritzi ScheffSiegrune Marguerite Marilly

Grimgerde Minnie Molka-KelloggRoßweiße Carrie Bridewell



Il re d’Egitto Adolph MühlmannAmneris Louise Homer

Aida Lillian NordicaRadamès Albert Saléza

Ramfis Marcel JournetAmonasro Antonio Scotti

Un messaggero Aristide MasieroUna sacerdotessa Mathilde Bauermeistermaestro direttore Philippe Flon

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1/17/01: Mefistofele: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Mefistofele Pol PlançonFaust Giuseppe Cremonini

Margherita Marguerite MacIntyreElena Marguerite MacIntyre

Wa gner Aristide MasieroMarta Louise Homer

Pantalis Louise HomerNerèo Aristide Masiero


1/22/01: Le cid: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Don Arias Aristide MasieroDon Alonzo Lodovico Viviani

Le comte de Gormas Pol PlançonChimène Lucienne BrévalL’Infante Suzanne Adams

Le Roi Eugène SizesRodrigue Jean de Reszke

Don Diègue Edouard de ReszkeL’Envoye maure Eugène Dufriche

Saint Jacques Jacques Barsmaestro direttore Luigi Mancinelli

1/24/01: Das Rheingold: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Wotan Theodore BertramDonner Eugène Dufriche

Fr oh Andreas DippelLoge Ernest van Dyck

Alberich David BisphamMime Adolph von HübbenetFasolt Adolph MühlmannFafner Marcel JournetFricka Susan StrongFr eia Fritzi ScheffErda Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Wo glinde Fritzi ScheffWellgunde Rosa OlitzkaFloßhilde Ernestine Schumann-Heink


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Wotan Theodore BertramSieglinde Milka Ternina

Brünnhilde Lillian NordicaFricka Ernestine Schumann-Heink


Waltraute Ernestine Schumann-HeinkSchwertleite Louise Homer

Helmwige Maud Roudez Fritzi Scheff

Siegrune Marguerite MarillyGrimgerde Rosa OlitzkaRoßweiße Carrie Bridewell


1/31/01: Siegfried: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Siegfried Andreas DippelMime Adolph von Hübbenet

Der Wanderer Edouard de ReszkeAlberich David Bispham

Fafner Robert BlassErda Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Brünnhilde Lillian NordicaStimme des WaldvogelsFritzi Scheff


2/05/01: Götterdämmerung: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Siegfried Andreas Dippel Jean de Reszke

Gunther Adolph MühlmannHagen Edouard de Reszke

Brünnhilde Lillian NordicaGutrune Susan Strong

Waltraute Ernestine Schumann-HeinkWo glinde Fritzi Scheff

Wellgunde Carrie BridewellFloßhilde Rosa Olitzka


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2/07/01: La bohème: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Mimì Nellie MelbaRodolfo Albert Saléza




AlcindoroMusetta Fritzi Scheff

Parpignol Aristide Masieromaestro direttore Luigi Mancinelli

Lucia di Lammermoor Il dolce suono (Act III)maestro direttore Luigi Mancinelli

2/14/01: Tannhäuser: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Hermann Robert BlassTannhäuser Ernest van Dyck

Wolfram von EschenbachTheodore BertramWalter von der Vogelweide Jacques Bars

Biterolf Adolph MühlmannHeinrich der Schreiber Adolph von Hübbenet

Reinmar von Zweter Lodovico VivianiElisabeth Johanna Gadski

Venus Susan StrongEin Hirtenknabe Rosa Olitzkamaestro direttore Walter Damrosch


Don Giovanni Antonio ScottiIl Commendatore Marcel Journet

Donna Anna Lillian NordicaDonna Elvira Marguerite MacIntyreDon Ottavio Thomas Salignac

Leporello Edouard de ReszkeZerlina Fritzi ScheffMasetto Antonio Pini-Corsi


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2/28/01: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Il duca di Mantova Albert SalézaRigoletto Giuseppe Campanari

Gilda Nellie MelbaSparafucile Marcel JournetMaddalena Louise Homer

Giovanna Mathilde BauermeisterIl conte di Monterone Charles Gilibert

Il cavaliere Marullo Lodovico VivianiMatteo Borsa Aristide Masiero

Il conte di Ceprano Giuseppe CernuscoLa contessa di Ceprano Marie van Cauteren



Santuzza Johanna Gadski Milka Ternina

Lola Louise HomerTuriddu Thomas Salignac

Alfio Antonio Pini-Corsi Antonio Scotti

Lucia Mathilde Bauermeistermaestro direttore Philippe Flon

2/28/01: Tosca: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Floria Tosca Milka TerninaMario Cavaradossi Giuseppe Cremonini

Il barone Scarpia Antonio ScottiCesare Angelotti Eugène Dufriche

Il sagrestano Charles GilibertSpoletta Jacques Bars

Sciarrone Lodovico VivianiUn carceriere Giuseppe Cernusco


3/05/01: L’africaine: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): director William Parry

Sélika Lucienne BrévalVasco da Gama Jean de Reszke

Inès Suzanne AdamsNélusko Giuseppe Campanari

Don Pédro Marcel Journet Edouard de Reszke

Don Diégo Eugène DufricheDon Alvar Jacques Bars

Le Grand Inquisiteur Pol PlançonLe Grand-Prêtre de Brama Pol Plançon

Anna Mathilde BauermeisterUsher Aristide Masiero


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4/15/01: Fr a Diavolo: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée: opera was performed withvaudeville between acts. admission was ten, twenty, thirty cents.

Fr a Diavolo Gus VaughanLord Rochburg W. T. Ellwanger

Lady Pamela Kathryn HowlandLorenzo J. E. ConlyMathéo Reni FarrelZerline Hattie Richardson

Giacomo Bob LettsBeppo Dan Young

maestro direttore unknown

4/15/01: Fr a Diavolo: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)4/16/01: Fr a Diavolo: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée4/16/01: Fr a Diavolo: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)4/17/01: Fr a Diavolo: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée4/17/01: Fr a Diavolo: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)4/18/01: Fr a Diavolo: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée4/18/01: Fr a Diavolo: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)4/19/01: Fr a Diavolo: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée4/19/01: Fr a Diavolo: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)4/20/01: Fr a Diavolo: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée4/20/01: Fr a Diavolo: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)5/04/01: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Merion Cricket Club (The Savo yCompany, Dr. Allen’s first production)

The learned judge John Paul MorrisThe defendant (Edwin) Frank McLaughlin

Counsel for the plaintiff Daniel H. DonovanUsher Mr. Mudie

Foreman of the jury John Ernest AllenThe plaintiff (Angelina) Mrs Joseph S. Bunting

maestro direttore Alfred Reginald Allen

5/20/01: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée

Count Arnheim William G. StewartFlorestein Louise MooreThaddeus Grafton Guy Baker

Devilshoof Harry LaneArline May Baker

The gypsy queen Kathryn Howlandmaestro direttore unknown

5/20/01: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)5/21/01: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée5/21/01: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)5/22/01: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée5/22/01: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)5/23/01: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée5/23/01: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)5/24/01: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée5/24/01: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)5/25/01: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée5/25/01: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)

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6/03/01: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée

Le docteur Faust Grafton Guy BakerMéphistophélès Mr. Snyder

Marguerite Fatmah DiardValentin Andrew Schneider

Siébel Louise MooreDame Marthe Schwertlein Kathryn Howland

Wa gner Dan Youngmaestro direttore unknown

6/03/01: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)

Le docteur Faust Walter WheatleyMéphistophélès Allen J. Hinckley

Marguerite Miss WheelerValentin William G. Stewart

Siébel Louise MooreDame Marthe Schwertlein Kathryn Howland

Wa gner Dan Youngmaestro direttore unknown

6/04/01: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée6/04/01: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)6/05/01: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée6/05/01: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)6/06/01: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée6/06/01: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)6/07/01: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée6/07/01: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)6/08/01: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company), matinée6/08/01: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Wilbur Opera Company)

12/06/01: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, St. James’ Hall (The Savo yCompany)

The learned judge John Paul MorrisThe defendant (Edwin) Frank McLaughlin

Counsel for the plaintiff Spencer P. HazardUsher Howard B. Stavers

Foreman of the jury John Ernest AllenThe plaintiff (Angelina) Elizabeth Wallace


The sorcerer: Philadelphia, St. James’ Hall (The Savo yCompany)

Sir Marmaduke Poindextre John Paul MorrisAlexis Warren W. Shaw

Doctor Daly Frank McLaughlinNotary John Ernest Allen

John Wellington Wells Mills ThompsonLady Sangazure Naudain Duer

Aline Mrs Joseph S. BuntingMrs. Partlett Katharine Malin

Constance Augustine Haughtonmaestro direttore Alfred Reginald Allen

12/07/01: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, St. James’ Hall (The Savo yCompany)The sorcerer: Philadelphia, St. James’ Hall (The Savo yCompany)

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12/21/01: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Manheim, Germantown (The Savo yCompany)

Foreman of the jury Clarence C. Brinton

The sorcerer: Philadelphia, St. James’ Hall (The Savo yCompany)12/26/01: Tristan und Isolde: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Isolde Milka TerninaTristan Ernest van Dyck

Brangäne Ernestine Schumann-HeinkKurwenal David Bispham

König Marke Robert BlassMelot Adolph Mühlmann

Ein junger Seemann Jacques BarsEin Hirt Albert Reiss

Der Steuermann Albert Reissmaestro direttore Walter Damrosch

12/30/01: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)

Il conte di Luna Daniel CantoriLeonora Edith MasonAzucena Kate Condon Alice Gaillard

Manrico Thomas H. PersseFerrando William H. Clark

Ines Etta StetsonRuiz Frank S. McKnight


12/31/01: Roméo et Juliette: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Roméo Thomas SalignacJuliette Sibyl Sanderson

Frère Laurent Edouard de ReszkeStéphano Carrie BridewellMercutio Maurice DecleryGertrude Marie van Cauteren

Le comte Capulet Marcel JournetTybalt Jacques Bars

Grégorio Eugène DufricheLe duc de Vérone Charles Gilibertmaestro direttore Philippe Flon

12/31/01: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)

19021/01/02: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company), matinée1/01/02: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)

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1/02/02: Carmen: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Carmen Emma CalvéDon José Albert AlvarezEscamillo Marcel Journet


Zuniga Maurice DecleryMoralès Jacques Bars

Le Dancaïre Charles GilibertLe Remendado Albert Reiss


1/02/02: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)1/03/02: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)1/04/02: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company), matinée1/04/02: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)1/06/02: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)

Le docteur Faust Thomas H. PersseMéphistophélès William H. Clark

Marguerite Edith MasonValentin Lawrence Mooney

Siébel Kate CondonDame Marthe Schwertlein Bertha A. Davis

Wa gner Daniel Cantorimaestro direttore unknown


Floria Tosca Milka TerninaMario Cavaradossi Emilio de Marchi



Sciarrone Lodovico VivianiUn pastore Carrie Bridewell

Un carceriere Giuseppe Cernuscomaestro direttore Philippe Flon

1/07/02: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)1/08/02: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company), matinée1/08/02: [Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)]

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Hans Sachs Edouard de ReszkeVeit Pogner Robert Blass

Kunz Vogelgesang Roberto VanniKonrad Nachtigall Lodovico VivianiSixtus BeckmesserDavid Bispham

Fritz Kothner Adolph MühlmannBalthasar Zorn Mr. Lawson

Ulrich Eißlinger Mr. BighinelliAugustin Moser Catullo MaestriHermann Ortel Eugène DufricheHans Schwarz Giuseppe Cernusco

Hans Foltz Gaetano FanelliWalter von Stolzing Andreas Dippel

David Albert ReissEva Johanna Gadski

Magdalene Ernestine Schumann-HeinkEin Nachtwächter Eugène Dufrichemaestro direttore Walter Damrosch

1/09/02: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)1/10/02: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)1/11/02: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company), matinée1/11/02: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)1/13/02: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)

Count Arnheim Lawrence MooneyFlorestein unknownThaddeus Thomas H. Persse

Devilshoof William H. ClarkArline Edith Mason

The gypsy queen Kate Condonmaestro direttore unknown


Il conte d’Almaviva Edouard de ReszkeLa contessa d’Almaviva Emma Eames

Susanna Marcella SembrichFigaro Giuseppe Campanari

Cherubino Fritzi ScheffMarcellina Mathilde Bauermeister

Doctor Bartolo Luigi Tav ecchiaDon Basilio Roberto VanniDon Curzio Catullo Maestri

Antonio Eugène Dufrichemaestro direttore Armondo Seppilli

1/14/02: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)1/15/02: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company), matinée1/15/02: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)

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Heinrich der Vogler Robert BlassLohengrin Andreas Dippel

Elsa von Brabant Johanna GadskiFriedrich von Telramund Anton van Rooy



1/16/02: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)1/17/02: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)1/18/02: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company), matinée1/18/02: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Opera Company)1/21/02: La fille du régiment: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Marie Fritzi Scheff Marcella Sembrich

Tonio Thomas SalignacLa marquise de BerkenfieldMarie van Cauteren

Hortentius Eugène DufricheSulpice Charles Gilibert

Le caporal Lodovico Vivianimaestro direttore Philippe Flon

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Tonio Giuseppe CampanariNedda Camille Seygard Fritzi Scheff

Canio Emilio de MarchiBeppe Albert ReissSilvio Maurice Declery


1/23/02: Aida: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée


Aida Rosalie Chalia Emma Eames

Radamès Emilio de MarchiRamfis Marcel Journet

Amonasro Giuseppe CampanariUn messaggero Roberto Vanni

Una sacerdotessa Marguerite Marillymaestro direttore Armondo Seppilli

1/27/02: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Company)

Santuzza Edith MasonLola Kate Condon

Turiddu Thomas H. PerseeAlfio Lawrence Mooney

Lucia Eloise Bishopmaestro direttore unknown

H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Company)

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Le docteur Faust Ernest van DyckMéphistophélès Marcel Journet

Marguerite Emma CalvéValentin Giuseppe Campanari

Siébel Carrie BridewellDame Marthe Schwertlein Mathilde Bauermeister

Wa gner Lodovico Vivianimaestro direttore Armondo Seppilli (or Philippe Flon)

1/28/02: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Company)H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Company)

1/29/02: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Company), matinéeH. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Howe and Parry Company)


1/30/02: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Il conte d’Almaviva Thomas SalignacIl dottore Bartolo Luigi Tav ecchia


Don Basilio Edouard de ReszkeFiorello Lodovico Viviani

Berta Marie van CauterenUn ufficiale Roberto Vanni

maestro direttore Armondo Seppilli

Lesson scene:Johann Strauß, Jr. Voce di primavera

unknown Slumber songChopin Lithuanian waltz

John Curtis notes that Mme. Sembrich accompanied herself on the piano during the lesson scene.





2/03/02: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company)

Carmen Selma Koert KronoldDon José Payne ClarkeEscamillo William Mertens

Micaëla Dorothy FranklinFr asquita Etta StinsonMercédès unknown

Zuniga William H. ClarkMoralès unknown

Le Dancaïre Mr. FredericksLe Remendado Mr. Schroeder


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2/04/02: Messaline(Isidore de Lara): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Messaline Emma CalvéHélion Albert AlvarezHarès Antonio Scotti

Tyndaris Marguerite MarillyMyrtille Marcel JournetGallus Maurice Declery

Myrrhon Charles GilibertOlympias Marcel Journet

Tsilla Juliette RoslynLeuconöe Helen Mapleson

Loeno Roberto VanniOarsman Eugène Dufriche

Mime Lodovico VivianiPoet Ernesto Giaccone

Water Merchant Catullo MaestriZitherist Marie van Cauteren

Councillor Jules Judelsmaestro direttore Philippe Flon

2/04/02: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company)

Carmen Kate CondonDon José Thomas BoydEscamillo Lawrence Mooney


2/05/02: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company), matinée2/05/02: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company)2/06/02: Die Zauberflöte(Italian): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Sarastro Edouard de ReszkeTamino Andreas Dippel

Sprecher Eugène DufricheKönigin der Nacht Marcella Sembrich

Pamina Emma EamesErste Dame der Königin Milka Ternina

Zweite Dame der Königin Marie van CauterenDritte Dame der Königin Carrie Bridewell

Papageno Giuseppe CampanariPapagena Fritzi Scheff

Monostatos Albert ReissErster Knabe Marguerite Marilly

Zweiter Knabe Miss RandallDritter Knabe Isabelle Bouton

Erster geharnischter Mann Eugène DufricheZweiter geharnischter Mann Catullo Maestri

Erster Priester Adolph MühlmannZweiter Priester Roberto Vannimaestro direttore Walter Damrosch

2/06/02: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company)2/07/02: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company)2/08/02: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company), matinée

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2/08/02: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company)2/10/02: Lohengrin: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company)

Heinrich der Vogler William H. ClarkLohengrin Payne Clarke

Elsa von Brabant Dorothy FranklinFriedrich von Telramund William Mertens

Ortrud Selma Koert KronoldDer Heerrufer des Königs Lawrence Mooney


2/13/02: Die Walküre: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée


Wotan Anton van RooySieglinde Johanna Gadski

Brünnhilde Luise Reuss-BelceFricka Ernestine Schumann-Heink


Waltraute Marie MaurerSchwertleite Louise Homer

Helmwige Camille SeygardSiegrune Marguerite Marilly

Grimgerde Isabelle BoutonRoßweiße Carrie Bridewell


2/17/02: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company)

Count Arnheim Lawrence MooneyFlorestein Mr. FredericksThaddeus Payne Clarke

Devilshoof William H. ClarkArline Etta Stetson

The gypsy queen Kate Condonmaestro direttore unknown

Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company)

Santuzza Rosalie ChaliaLola Kate Condon

Turiddu Antonio PaoliAlfio William Mertens

Lucia unknownmaestro direttore unknown

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2/18/02: Manru (Ignance Jan Paderewski): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Manru Aleksander BandrowskiUlana Marcella SembrichUrok David Bispham

Hedwig Louise HomerAsa Fritzi Scheff

Ja gu Robert BlassOros Adolph Mühlmann

Maiden not performedmaestro direttore Walter Damrosch

2/18/02: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company)

Il conte di Luna Daniel CantoriLeonora Selma Koert KronoldAzucena Kate CondonManrico Payne Clarke

Ferrando William H. ClarkInes Etta StetsonRuiz Mr. Fredericks


2/19/02: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company), matinée2/19/02: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company): 2/17/02

Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company): 2/17/02 except:

Santuzza Selma Koert Kronold

2/20/02: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company): 2/18/02 except:

Manrico Albert L. Guille

2/22/02: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company), matinée: 2/17/02Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company): 2/17/02 except:

Santuzza Selma Koert Kronold

2/22/02: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company): 2/18/02 except:

Manrico Albert L. Guille

2/24/02: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company)

Il re d’Egitto Richard KarlAmneris May Walters

Aida Rosalie ChaliaRadamès Antonio Paoli

Ramfis William H. ClarkAmonasro Lawrence Mooney

Un messaggero Mr. FredericksUna sacerdotessa unknownmaestro direttore unknown

John Curtis: Rosalie Chalia and Antonio Paoli sang in Italian, the rest in English.

2/25/02: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company): 2/24/02 except:

Aida Selma Koert KronoldRadamès Albert L. Guille

Amonasro Daniel Cantori

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2/26/02: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company), matinée: 2/24/02 except:

Amneris Bella TomlinsAida Selma Koert Kronold

Radamès Payne ClarkeAmonasro William Mertens

2/26/02: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company): 2/24/022/27/02: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company): 2/24/02 except:

Aida Selma Koert KronoldRadamès Albert L. Guille

2/28/02: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company): 2/24/02 except:


Radamès Albert L. GuilleAmonasro Daniel Cantori

3/01/02: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company), matinée: 2/24/023/01/02: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Imperial English Opera Company): 2/24/02 except:


Radamès Albert L. GuilleAmonasro Daniel Cantori

5/07/02: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B.Mills ThompsonCaptain Corcoran Frank McLaughlinRalph Rackstraw Ernest Hill

Dick Deadeye, able seamanJohn Ernest AllenBill Bobstay, boatswain Clarence C. Brinton

Bob Becket, boatswain’s mateHoward B. StaversTom Tucker H. Newell Guernsey

Josephine Nina TaylorHebe Augustine Haughton

Little Buttercup Josephine McCullohmaestro direttore Alfred Reginald Allen

5/08/02: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/09/02: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

10/13/02: Zanetto: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Mascagni Opera Company)

Zanetto Eugenia MantelliSilvia Mme.Blanchini-Cappelli

maestro direttore Pietro Mascagni

Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Mascagni Opera Company)

Santuzza Mme.Blanchini-CappelliLola Eugenia Mantelli

Turiddu Antonio PaoliAlfio Virgilio Bellatti

Lucia Josephine del Partomaestro direttore Pietro Mascagni

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10/14/02: Iris : Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Mascagni Opera Company)

Iris Maria FarnetiOsaka Pietro SchiavazziKyoto Virgilio Bellatti

Il cieco Francesco NavarinoUna guècha Dora de Fillippe

Un cenciaiuolo Bernardino LandiniUn merciaiuolo Pasquale Blasio


Ballet:La bellezza Mlle. Ciatini

La morte Mlle. XaselliIl vampiro Mlle. Vitto

10/15/02: Zanetto: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Mascagni Opera Company), matinée




Santuzza Amalia PintoLola Eugenia Mantelli

Turiddu Carlo CaffettiAlfio Francesco Campana


10/15/02: Zanetto: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Mascagni Opera Company)




Santuzza Mme.Blanchini-CappelliLola Eugenia Mantelli

Turiddu Antonio PaoliAlfio Virgilio Bellatti


John Curtis:Iris had been announced for the evening performance, [but] the change was not explained.

12/02/02: Otello: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Otello Albert AlvarezJa go Antonio Scotti

Cassio Jacques BarsRoderigo Roberto VanniLodovico Marcel JournetMontàno Eugène Dufriche

Un araldo Bernard BéguéDesdemona Emma Eames

Emilia Marguerite Marillymaestro direttore Luigi Mancinelli

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12/09/02: La traviata: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Violetta Valéry Marcella SembrichAlfredo Germont Carlo DaniGiorgio Germont Antonio Scotti

Flora Bervoix Marie van CauterenIl barone Douphol Jacques Bars

Il dottor Grenvil Eugène DufricheAnnina Mathilde Bauermeister

Gastone di Letorières Roberto VanniIl marchese d’Obigny unknown


12/11/02: Lohengrin: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Heinrich der Vogler Robert BlassLohengrin Georg Anthes

Elsa von Brabant Johanna GadskiFriedrich von Telramund David Bispham


maestro direttore Alfred Hertz

12/16/02: Le prophète: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Jean de Leyde Albert AlvarezBerthe Marguerite MarillyFidès Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Zacharie Edouard de ReszkeJonas Jacques Bars

Mathisen Maurice DecleryLe comte d’Oberthal Marcel Journet

Un paysan Roberto VanniAnabaptiste Giuseppe CernuscoUn officier Bernard Bégué

Herald Roberto Vannimaestro direttore Philippe Flon

Luigi Albertieri


Hermann Robert BlassTannhäuser Georg Anthes

Wolfram von EschenbachDavid BisphamWalter von der Vogelweide Jacques Bars

Biterolf Adolph MühlmannHeinrich der Schreiber Albert Reiss

Reinmar von Zweter Eugène DufricheElisabeth Johanna Gadski

Venus Louise HomerEin Hirtenknabe Carrie Bridewellmaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

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12/30/02: Les huguenots: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Marguerite de Valois Electa GiffordRaoul de Nangis Albert Alvarez

Valentine Johanna GadskiLe comte de NeversAntonio Scotti

Urbain Fritzi ScheffLe comte de Saint-Bris Marcel Journet

Marcel Edouard de ReszkeTavannes Albert ReissDe Cossé Roberto Vanni

De Retz Bernard Bégué


Marie van CauterenBois-Rosé Jacques BarsMaurevert Eugène Dufriche



Floria Tosca Emma EamesMario Cavaradossi Emilio de Marchi



Sciarrone Bernard BéguéUn pastore Carrie Bridewell

Un carceriere Giuseppe Cernuscomaestro direttore Luigi Mancinelli


Mimì Marcella SembrichRodolfo Emilio de Marchi




AlcindoroMusetta Camille Seygard

Parpignol Roberto Vannimaestro direttore Luigi Mancinelli

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Il conte d’Almaviva Thomas SalignacIl dottore Bartolo Charles Gilibert


Don Basilio Edouard de ReszkeFiorello Bernard Bégué

Berta Mathilde BauermeisterUn ufficiale Roberto Vanni



La sonnambula Ah ! non giunge uman pensieroChopin Polish ballad

John Curtis notes that Mme. Sembrich accompanied herself on the piano during the lesson scene.


Le docteur Faust Albert AlvarezMéphistophélès Edouard de Reszke

Marguerite Marguerite Marilly Emma Eames

Valentin Antonio ScottiSiébel Carrie Bridewell

Dame Marthe Schwertlein Mathilde BauermeisterWa gner Eugène Dufriche



Wotan Anton van RooyDonner Adolph Mühlmann

Fr oh Jacques BarsLoge Georg Anthes

Alberich David BisphamMime Albert ReissFasolt Robert BlassFafner Johannes ElmbladFricka Luise Reuss-BelceFr eia Marguerite MarillyErda Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Wo glinde Fritzi ScheffWellgunde Carrie BridewellFloßhilde Ernestine Schumann-Heink


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Siegmund Alois BurgstallerHunding Johannes Elmblad

Wotan Anton van RooySieglinde Johanna Gadski

Brünnhilde Lillian NordicaFricka Luise Reuss-Belce


Waltraute Marie MaurerSchwertleite Louise Homer

Helmwige Camille SeygardSiegrune Marguerite Marilly

Grimgerde unknownRoßweiße Carrie Bridewell



Siegfried Alois BurgstallerMime Albert Reiss

Der Wanderer Anton van RooyAlberich David Bispham

Fafner Johannes ElmbladErda Louise Kirkby-Lunn

Brünnhilde Lillian NordicaStimme des WaldvogelsFritzi Scheff


2/05/03: Götterdämmerung: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Siegfried Alois BurgstallerGunther Adolph Mühlmann

Hagen Robert BlassAlberich David Bispham

Brünnhilde Lillian NordicaGutrune Luise Reuss-Belce

Waltraute Louise HomerWo glinde Fritzi Scheff

Wellgunde Carrie BridewellFloßhilde Louise Homer


2/10/03: Ernani: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Ernani Emilio de MarchiDon Carlo Antonio Scotti

Don Ruy Gomez de SilvaEdouard de ReszkeDonna Elvira Marcella Sembrich

Giovanna Mathilde BauermeisterDon Riccardo Roberto Vanni

Ja go Bernard Béguémaestro direttore Philippe Flon

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2/17/03: La fille du régiment: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Marie Marcella SembrichTonio Thomas Salignac

La marquise de BerkenfieldMarie van CauterenHortentius Eugène Dufriche

Sulpice Charles GilibertLe caporal Bernard Bégué



Canio Carlo DaniNedda Camille SeygardTonio Antonio ScottiBeppe Albert ReissSilvio Maurice Declery




Aida Johanna GadskiRadamès Albert Alvarez


Un messaggero Roberto VanniUna sacerdotessa Marguerite Marillymaestro direttore Philippe Flon


Isolde Lillian NordicaTristan Georg Anthes

Brangäne Louise HomerKurwenal Anton van Rooy



Der Steuermann Eugène Dufrichemaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

3/10/03: Don Pasquale: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Don Pasquale Charles GilibertErnesto Carlo Dani

Dottor Malatesta Antonio ScottiNorina Marcella Sembrich

Un notaio (Carlotto) Roberto Vannimaestro direttore Philippe Flon

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3/12/03: Die Zauberflöte(Italian): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Sarastro Edouard de ReszkeTamino Thomas Salignac

Sprecher Eugène DufricheKönigin der Nacht Marcella Sembrich

Pamina Johanna GadskiErste Dame der Königin Camille Seygard

Zweite Dame der Königin Louise HomerDritte Dame der Königin Carrie Bridewell

Papageno Giuseppe CampanariPapagena Fritzi Scheff

Monostatos Albert ReissErster Knabe Marguerite Marilly

Zweiter Knabe Isabelle BoutonDritter Knabe Helen Mapleson

Erster geharnischter Mann Eugène DufricheZweiter geharnischter Mann Catullo Maestri

Erster Priester Adolph MühlmannZweiter Priester Roberto Vannimaestro direttore Luigi Mancinelli


Hans Sachs Anton van RooyVeit Pogner Robert Blass

Kunz Vogelgesang Roberto VanniKonrad Nachtigall Eugène DufricheSixtus BeckmesserDavid Bispham

Fritz Kothner Adolph MühlmannBalthasar Zorn Mr. Conde

Ulrich Eißlinger Mr. BighinelliAugustin Moser Catullo MaestriHermann Ortel Mr. RodeschiHans Schwarz Gaetano Fanelli

Hans Foltz Giuseppe CernuscoWalter von Stolzing Alois Burgstaller


Magdalene Marie MaurerEin Nachtwächter Eugène Dufrichemaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

4/20/03: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)

Count Arnheim William ShusterFlorestein Louise ReddingThaddeus Thomas H. Persse

Devilshoof Bowman RalstonArline Edith Mason

The gypsy queen Beatrice Holmesmaestro direttore Anton Heinl

4/21/03: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)4/22/03: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)

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4/23/03: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)4/24/03: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)4/25/03: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/14/03: Patience: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage manager Frank J. Palmer

Colonel Calverly Clarence C. BrintonMajor Murgatroyd Armitt Brown

Lieutenant, the duke of DunstableThomas Ellicott CoaleReginald Bunthorne Mills Thompson

Archibald Grosvenor Hugh H. RiddleMr. Bunthorne’s solicitor Samuel Hazard

The lady Angela Margaret ThouronThe lady Saphir Pauline F. Morris

The lady Ella Julie F. E. PhillipsThe lady Jane D. Webster Dougherty

Patience, a dairy maid Mrs Joseph S. Buntingmaestro direttore Percy A. Legge

5/15/03: Patience: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/19/03: Patience: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

12/29/03: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Il duca di Mantova Enrico CarusoRigoletto Antonio Scotti

Gilda Marcella SembrichSparafucile Marcel JournetMaddalena Louise Homer

Giovanna Mathilde BauermeisterIl conte di Monterone Eugène Dufriche

Il cavaliere Marullo Bernard BéguéMatteo Borsa Aristide Masiero

Il conte di Ceprano Giuseppe CernuscoLa contessa di Ceprano Helen Mapleson

Usciere di corte Gaetano FanelliPa g gio della duchessaEllen Förnsen

maestro direttore Arturo Vigna


Heinrich der Vogler Robert BlassLohengrin Ernst Kraus

Elsa von Brabant Johanna GadskiFriedrich von Telramund Anton van Rooy

Ortrud Edyth WalkerDer Heerrufer des Königs Adolph Mühlmann

maestro direttore Felix Mottl

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1/12/04: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Santuzza Olive FremstadLola Louise Homer

Turiddu Andreas DippelAlfio Giuseppe Campanari

Lucia Mathilde Bauermeistermaestro direttore Arturo Vigna


Canio Enrico CarusoNedda Camille SeygardTonio Antonio ScottiBeppe Albert ReissSilvio Mario Guardabassi



Floria Tosca Milka TerninaMario Cavaradossi Enrico Caruso


Il sagrestano Arcangelo RossiSpoletta Jacques Bars

Sciarrone Bernard BéguéUn pastore Isabelle Bouton

Un carceriere Giuseppe Cernuscomaestro direttore Arturo Vigna


Hermann Pol PlançonTannhäuser Andreas Dippel Ernst Kraus

Wolfram von EschenbachOtto GoritzWalter von der Vogelweide Albert Reiss

Biterolf Adolph MühlmannHeinrich der Schreiber Julius Bayer

Reinmar von Zweter Eugène DufricheElisabeth Johanna Gadski

Venus Olive FremstadEin Hirtenknabe Ernesta Delsartamaestro direttore Alfred Hertz


Il re d’Egitto Adolph MühlmannAmneris Edyth Walker

Aida Johanna GadskiRadamès Enrico Caruso

Ramfis Pol PlançonAmonasro Antonio Scotti

Un messaggero Aristide MasieroUna sacerdotessa Josephine Schäffermaestro direttore Arturo Vigna

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Carmen Emma CalvéDon José Andreas DippelEscamillo Marcel Journet

Micaëla Marguerite LemonFr asquita Paula RalphMercédès Josephine Jacoby

Zuniga Bernard BéguéMoralès Mario Guardabassi

Le Dancaïre Eugène DufricheLe Remendado Albert Reiss


unknown


Le docteur Faust Fran NaválMéphistophélès Pol Plançon

Marguerite Aïno AcktéValentin Antonio Scotti

Siébel Edyth WalkerDame Marthe Schwertlein Mathilde Bauermeister

Wa gner Eugène Dufrichemaestro direttore Gustav Hinrichs

2/23/04: L’elisir d’amore: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Nemorino Fran NaválAdina Marcella Sembrich

Il dottor Dulcamara Arcangelo RossiBelcore Antonio Scotti

Giannetta Isabelle Boutonmaestro direttore Nahan Franko

Coppélia: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Swanilda Enrichetta VarasiFr anz Carl BraunFr anz Tekla Braun

Coppélius Augusto FrancioliDoll Miss Gillford

Mayor Vincenzo Roméomaestro direttore Nahan Franko

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Isolde Marion Weed Milka Ternina

Tristan Ernst KrausBrangäne Edyth WalkerKurwenal Anton van Rooy

König Marke Victor KlöpferMelot Adolph Mühlmann


Der Steuermann Eugène Dufrichemaestro direttore Felix Mottl

Ernst Kraus cancelled after Act II forcing the cancellation of Act III.


Wotan Anton van RooyDonner Adolph Mühlmann

Fr oh Jacques BarsLoge Alois Burgstaller

Alberich Otto GoritzMime Albert ReissFasolt Victor KlöpferFafner Robert BlassFricka Olive FremstadFr eia Camille SeygardErda Johanna Pöhlmann Edyth Walker

Wo glinde Marion WeedWellgunde Paula RalphFloßhilde Johanna Pöhlmann Louise Homer



Siegmund Ernst KrausHunding Victor Klöpfer

Wotan Adolph MühlmannSieglinde Olive Fremstad

Brünnhilde Johanna GadskiFricka Louise Homer

Gerhilde Lillian HeidelbachOrtlinde Paula Ralph

Waltraute Isabelle BoutonSchwertleite Louise Homer

Helmwige Selma Kört-KronoldSiegrune Marcia van Dresser

Grimgerde Johanna PöhlmannRoßweiße Miss Schueler


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Der Wanderer Anton van RooyAlberich Otto Goritz

Fafner Victor KlöpferErda Edyth Walker

Brünnhilde Marion WeedStimme des WaldvogelsMarguerite Lemon


3/12/04: Götterdämmerung: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Siegfried Andreas Dippel Ernst Kraus

Gunther Adolph MühlmannHagen Robert Blass

Brünnhilde Georgine von Januschowsky Johanna Gadski

Gutrune Marion WeedWaltraute not performedWo glinde Camille Seygard

Wellgunde Paula RalphFloßhilde Louise Homer


5/12/04: Iolanthe: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage manager Joseph Craig Fox

The Lord Chancellor Charles Francis WardLord Mountararat Armitt Brown

Earl Tolloller John Paul MorrisPrivate Willis, of the Grenadier GuardsArthur E. I. Jackson

Strephon, an arcadian shepherdHugh H. RiddleQueen of the fairies Margaret Thouron

Iolanthe Augustine HaughtonCelia Carlotta BarneyLeila Pauline F. MorrisFleta Julie F. E. Phillips

Phyllis, an arcadian shepherdessMrs Joseph S. Buntingmaestro direttore Percy A. Legge

5/13/04: Iolanthe: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/14/04: Iolanthe: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

12/06/04: Roméo et Juliette: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): stage directorEugène Dufriche

Roméo Albert SalézaJuliette Emma Eames

Frère Laurent Pol PlançonStéphano Marguerite LemonMercutio Taurino ParvisGertrude Mathilde Bauermeister


Grégorio Bernard BéguéLe duc de Vérone Adolph Mühlmannmaestro direttore Nahan Franko

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Aida Emma EamesRadamès Enrico Caruso


Un messaggero Mr. GiordaniUna sacerdotessa Josephine Schäffermaestro direttore Arturo Vigna

Bianca Froehlich

12/26/04: Parsifal (English): Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage / English Grand OperaCompany), hour: 1730: mechanical effect William A Stenger; electrical effects Joseph G. Wilson;costumes Hugo Baruch & Company, Berlin; wigs by Hepner; shoes by Miller, flower maidens posedby Claude M. Alvienu

Amfortas Johannes BischoffTiturel Robert Kent Parker

Gurnemanz Putnam GriswoldParsifal Alois Pennarini

Klingsor Homer LindKundry Kirkby Lunn

Erster Gralsritter Francklyn WallaceZweiter Gralsritter Albert Pellaton

Altstimme Flavia ArcaroErster Knappe Jennie Heller

Zweiter Knappe Elsa van der VoortDritter Knappe Alfred KappellerVierter Knappe William Kelly

Zaubermädchen

Pearl Guzman

Harriet CropperCeleste WynneMarguerite LiddellElizabeth PatteeCharlotte George

The grail bearer Eva Wallacemaestro direttore Walter F. Rothwell

Blumenmädchen: Flavia Arcaro, Gertrude Arnold, Vera de Bassini, Mollie BlanchardLouise Courtney, Elsa van der Voort, Clara Eckstrom, Gertrude Hammond

Jennie Heller, Lily Hessling, Helen Howe, Lillian MatticeBertyne Mortimer, Elizabeth Pattee, Helen Petre, Lucia NolaEva Smith, Eugenie Soule, Elizabeth Thornton, Eva Wallace

Gralsritter: Messrs.Ryan, Edwards, Coever, Lipson, Brown, KilpatrickMartin, Inauen, Ermoloff, Bauer, McDonald, Corse, Willard

Searle, Wilbur, Hopkins, Achard, Owen, Becker, PoppenSaunders, Johnston, Clark, Riley, Ickowsky, Coote

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Santuzza Maria de MacchiLola Josephine Jacoby

Turiddu Albert SalézaAlfio Eugenio Giraldoni

Lucia Mathilde Bauermeistermaestro direttore Arturo Vigna


Canio Enrico CarusoNedda Bella AltenTonio Antonio ScottiBeppe Albert ReissSilvio Taurino Parvis


12/27/04: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage Opera Co.), hour: 1730: 12/26/04 except:

Amfortas Franz EgenieffGurnemanz Ottley Cranston

Parsifal Francis MaclennanKlingsor J. Parker CoombsKundry Hanna Maria

maestro direttore Moritz Grimm

12/28/04: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage Opera Company), hour: 1100 (11 a.m.)12/28/04: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage / English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 1730

Kundry Florence Wyckham

12/29/04: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage / English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 173012/30/04: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage / English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 1730

Kundry Florence Wyckham

12/31/04: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage Opera Co.), hour: 1100 (11 a.m.):12/26/04 except:

Amfortas Alois PennariniAltstimme Florence Wickham

Zaubermädchen

Pearl Guzman

Harriet CropperCeleste WynneMarguerite LiddellFlorence WyckhamCharlotte George

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12/31/04: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage Opera Co.), hour: 1730: 12/26/04 except:

Gurnemanz Ottley CranstonParsifal Francis Maclennan

Klingsor J. Parker CoombsKundry Hanna Maria

Altstimme Florence Wickham

Zaubermädchen

Pearl Guzman

Harriet CropperCeleste WynneMarguerite LiddellFlorence WyckhamCharlotte George

maestro direttore Moritz Grimm

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19051/02/05: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage / English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 17301/03/05: Lohengrin: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Heinrich der Vogler Robert BlassLohengrin Heinrich Knote

Elsa von Brabant Lillian NordicaFriedrich von Telramund Otto Goritz

Ortrud Louise HomerDer Heerrufer des Königs Adolph Mühlmann

maestro direttore Nahan Franko

1/03/05: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage / English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 17301/04/05: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage Opera Company), hour: 1100 (11 a.m.)1/04/05: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage / English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 17301/05/05: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage / English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 17301/06/05: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage / English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 17301/07/05: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage Opera Company), hour: 1100 (11 a.m.)1/07/05: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage / English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 1730

Amfortas Johannes BischoffTiturel Robert Kent Parker

Gurnemanz Putnam GriswoldParsifal Francis Maclennan

Klingsor Homer LindKundry Kirkby Lunn

Erster Gralsritter Francklyn WallaceZweiter Gralsritter Albert Pellaton

Altstimme Charlotte GeorgeErster Knappe Jennie Heller

Zweiter Knappe Elsa van der VoortDritter Knappe Alfred KappellerVierter Knappe William Kelly

Zaubermädchen

Pearl Guzman

Harriet CropperCeleste WynneMarguerite LiddellElizabeth PatteeCharlotte George

The grail bearer Eva Wallacemaestro direttore Walter F. Rothwell

1/10/05: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Lord Enrico Asthon Taurino ParvisMiss Lucia Marcella Sembrich

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodEnrico CarusoLord Arturo Buclaw Jacques BarsRaimondo Bidebent Marcel Journet

Alisa Mathilde BauermeisterNormanno Mr. Giordani


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Isolde Lillian NordicaTristan Heinrich Knote




Der Steuermann Julius Bayermaestro direttore Alfred Hertz


Mimì Marcella SembrichRodolfo Enrico Caruso

Marcello Antonio ScottiSchaunard Taurino Parvis


Arcangelo RossiBenoît

AlcindoroParpignol Quinto Zecchi

Musetta Bella AltenSergente dei doganieri Mario Gili

Un ufficiale Gaetano Fanellimaestro direttore Arturo Vigna



Kunz Vogelgesang Lloyd RandKonrad Nachtigall Eugène DufricheSixtus BeckmesserEmil Greder

Fritz Kothner Adolph MühlmannBalthasar Zorn Julius Bayer

Ulrich Eißlinger Mr. LapiniAugustin Moser Mr. RudolfiHermann Ortel Mr. BaillardHans Schwarz Otto Lötzsch

Hans Foltz August WernerWalter von Stolzing Alois Burgstaller

David Albert ReissEva Aïno Ackté

Magdalene Louise HomerEin Nachtwächter Eugène Dufriche

Lehrbuben

Susanne Baker

Paula BraendleMildred ElliottKatherine MoranAdeline ThomasEdith VailIndia Waelchli


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Carmen Olive FremstadDon José Albert SalézaEscamillo Marcel Journet

Micaëla Aïno AcktéFr asquita Paula RalphMercédès Josephine Jacoby

Zuniga Bernard BéguéMoralès Taurino Parvis



Enrichetta Varasi


Le docteur Faust Albert SalézaMéphistophélès Marcel Journet

Marguerite Emma EamesValentin Antonio Scotti

Siébel Josephine JacobyDame Marthe Schwertlein Mathilde Bauermeister

Wa gner Bernard Béguémaestro direttore Nahan Franko

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2/21/05: Die Fledermaus(German): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Alfred Albert ReissAdele Bella Alten

Rosalinde Marcella SembrichGabriel von Eisenstein Andreas Dippel

Dr. Blind Adolph MühlmannDr. Falke Emil Greder

Fr ank Otto GoritzPrinz Orlofsky Edyth Walker

Ida Mildred ElliottFr osch Max Hänseler

Ivan Julius BayerGuest Artist not performed


not performed

Die Puppenfée: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Doll Fairy Minnie EgenerToy Merchant Mr. Sant-Elia

Plumpstershire Mr. DalmasLady Plumpstershire Miss Colombo

Clerk Mr. StellaPeasant Vincenzo Roméo

Peasant’s wife Miss ValettiGuide Mr. Leke

Messenger Mr. CenerellaPostman Mr. RioloServant Miss SuanJock ey Miss Daubel

Drummer Enrichetta VarasiSpaniard Bianca FroehlichJapanese Pauline Verhoeven

Baby Fritzi StickertTyrolean Miss HabanNegress Miss RossChinese Zelinda Ziglioli

Harlequin Luigi AlbertieriTr oubador Aurelio Coccia

Drum Major Mr. d’Antonamaestro direttore Nahan Franko

2/28/05: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

La gioconda Lillian NordicaEnzo Grimaldo Enrico CarusoLaura Adorno Louise Homer

Barnaba Eugenio GiraldoniAlvise Badoero Pol Plançon

La cieca Edyth WalkerZuàne Bernard BéguéIsèpo Ernesto Giaccone

Un cantore Eugène Dufrichemaestro direttore Arturo Vigna

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5/11/05: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo y Company): stage manager Joseph Craig Fox;assistant stage manager J. Barry Colahan, III

The Mikado of Japan Arthur E. I. JacksonNanki-Poo Robert W. Read

Ko-Ko Joseph Craig FoxPoo-Bah Mills Thompson

Pish-Tush Clarence C. BrintonYum-Yum Mrs. Clarence BawdenPitti-Sing Margaret ThouronPeep-Bo Mrs. Anthony HankeyKatisha Mrs. D. Webster Dougherty

maestro direttore Percy A. Legge

5/12/05: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/13/05: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

11/08/05: Don Pasquale: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (The Schubert Brothers)

Don Pasquale Alfonso RosaErnesto Isadore Prati

Dottor Malatesta Fillippo FratodiNorina Alice Neilson (aka:Mrs. Benjamin Neutwig)

Un notaio unknownmaestro direttore unknown

12/05/05: La favorite(Italian): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Alphonse XI Antonio ScottiLéonor de Guzman Edyth Walker

Fernand Enrico CarusoBalthazar Pol Plançon

Don Gaspar Jacques BarsInès Jeanne Jomelli


Bianca FroehlichPauline Verhoeven

12/12/05: Die Fledermaus(German): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Alfred Albert ReissAdele Bella Alten

Rosalinde Marcella SembrichGabriel von Eisenstein Andreas Dippel

Dr. Blind Adolph MühlmannDr. Falke Emil Greder

Fr ank Otto GoritzPrinz Orlofsky Marion Weed

Ida Mildred ElliottFr osch Julius Bayer


Bianca Froehlich

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Siegmund Alois BurgstallerHunding Robert Blass

Wotan Anton van RooySieglinde Olive Fremstad

Brünnhilde Edyth WalkerFricka Louise Homer

Gerhilde Edith VailOrtlinde Mathilde Bauermeister

Waltraute Marion WeedSchwertleite Louise Homer

Helmwige Jeanne JomelliSiegrune Paula Ralph

Grimgerde Florence MulfordRoßweiße Josephine Jacoby



Il duca di Mantova Enrico CarusoRigoletto Antonio Scotti

Gilda Marcella SembrichSparafucile Marcel JournetMaddalena Josephine Jacoby

Giovanna Mathilde BauermeisterIl conte di Monterone Adolph Mühlmann

Il cavaliere Marullo Bernard BéguéMatteo Borsa Giovanni Paroli

Il conte di Ceprano Eugène DufricheLa contessa di Ceprano Lucille Lawrence

Usciere di corte Felice FogliaPa g gio della duchessaEdith Vail


19061/02/06: Die Königin von Saba(Karl Goldmark): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, NY)

König Salomon Anton van RooyHohepriester Robert Blass

Sulamith Marie RappoldAssad Heinrich Knote

Baal-Hanan Adolph MühlmannDie Königin von Saba Edyth Walker

Astaroth Bella AltenDer Tempelwächter Julius Bayer


Bianca Froehlich

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1/04/06: Hänsel und Gretel: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Hänsel Lina AbarbanellGretel Bella Alten

Die Knusperhexe Louise HomerGertrud Marion Weed

Peter Otto GoritzSandmännchen Florence MulfordTaumännchen Roberta Glanville



Siegfried Heinrich KnoteMime Albert Reiss


Fafner Robert BlassErda Frederick Jacobi

Brünnhilde Lillian NordicaStimme des WaldvogelsBella Alten



Floria Tosca Emma EamesMario Cavaradossi Andreas Dippel

Il barone Scarpia Antonio ScottiCesare Angelotti Felice Foglia

Il sagrestano Arcangelo RossiSpoletta Giovanni Paroli

Sciarrone Bernard BéguéUn pastore Florence Mulford

Un carceriere Felice Fogliamaestro direttore Arturo Vigna



Marcello Giuseppe CampanariSchaunard Taurino Parvis



AlcindoroMusetta Bella Alten

Parpignol Giovanni ParoliSergente dei doganieri Felice Foglia

Un ufficiale Gaetano Fanellimaestro direttore Arturo Vigna

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Don Giovanni Antonio ScottiIl Commendatore Adolph Mühlmann

Donna Anna Lillian NordicaDonna Elvira Jeanne JomelliDon Ottavio Andreas Dippel

Leporello Marcel JournetZerlina Marcella SembrichMasetto Arcangelo Rossi


Bianca FroehlichPauline Verhoeven




Ramfis Pol PlançonAmonasro Giuseppe Campanari

Un messaggero Giovanni ParoliUna sacerdotessa Lucille Lawrencemaestro direttore Arturo Vigna

Bianca Froehlich


Siegfried Heinrich KnoteGunther Adolph Mühlmann

Hagen Robert BlassBrünnhilde Lillian Nordica

Gutrune Marion WeedWaltraute Edyth WalkerWo glinde Lucy Lee Call

Wellgunde Paula RalphFloßhilde Florence Mulford

Vassal Julius Bayermaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

2/20/06: Carmen: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York): stage d. Eugène Dufriche

Carmen Olive FremstadDon José Enrico CarusoEscamillo Antonio Scotti

Micaëla Bessie AbottFr asquita Paula RalphMercédès Josephine Jacoby

Zuniga Bernard BéguéMoralès Taurino Parvis



Bianca Froehlich

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Le docteur Faust Enrico CarusoMéphistophélès Pol Plançon

Marguerite Bessie Abott (aka: Bessie Pickens)Valentin Giuseppe Campanari

Siébel Josephine JacobyDame Marthe Schwertlein Mathilde Bauermeister

Wa gner Bernard Béguémaestro direttore Nahan Franko

5/16/06: The gondoliers: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage manager J. Barry Colahan, III

The duke of Plaza-Toro Charles Francis WardLuiz Robert W. Read

Don Alhambra del Bolero Franklin L. WoodMarco Palmieri David B. Miller

Giuseppe Palmieri Sigmund G. SpaethAntonio George B. Morrell

Fr ancesco Spencer P. HazardGiorgio Clarence C. Brinton

The duchess of Plaza-ToroMrs. Anthony HankeyCasilda Mrs. Clarence Bawden

Gianetta Lulu S. HeintzelmanTessa Augustine Haughton

Fiametta Helen E. FreedleyVittoria Pauline F. MorrisGiulia Edith G. Wilson

Inez Katharine Malinmaestro direttore Selden Miller

5/17/06: The gondoliers: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/18/06: The gondoliers: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

11/23/06: Samson et Dalila(in concert): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Choral Society of Philadelphia)

Dalila Janet SpencerSamson John F. Braun

Le grand-prêtre de Dagon Henry Hotzmaestro direttore Henry Gordon Thunder

This concert version was the first performance ofSamson et Dalilain Philadelphia and was attended by thecomposer, Camille Saint-Saëns. Oscar Hammerstein would first stage the work in Philadelphia two years lateron November 19, 1908.

12/04/06: Roméo et Juliette: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Roméo Charles RousselièreJuliette Geraldine Farrar

Frère Laurent Pol PlançonStéphano Josephine JacobyMercutio Jules-Charles SimardGertrude Georgine von Januschowsky


Grégorio Bernard BéguéLe duc de Vérone Adolph Mühlmannmaestro direttore Samuel Bovy

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Hermann Robert BlassTannhäuser Carl Burrian

Wolfram von EschenbachAnton van RooyWalter von der Vogelweide Albert Reiss


Reinmar von Zweter Frederick GuntherElisabeth Katherine Fleischer-Edel

Venus Olive FremstadEin Hirtenknabe Bella Altenmaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

Bianca Froehlich

12/20/06: Lakmé: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, NY): stage director Eugène Dufriche

Lakmé Marcella SembrichNilakantha Marcel Journet

Mallika Josephine JacobyHadji Jacques Bars

Gérald Charles RousselièreEllen Lina Simeoli Roberta Glanville

Frédéric Jules-Charles SimardRose Marie Mattfeld

Mistress Bentson Johanna Pöhlmannmaestro direttore Samuel Bovy

unknown

12/27/06: Fedora: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

La principessa Fedora RomazovLina CavalieriIl conte Loris Ipanov Enrico Caruso

La contessa Olga SukarevBella AltenIl conte Giovanni de Siriex Antonio Scotti

Dimitri Marie MattfeldDesirè Giovanni Paroli

Il barone Rouvel Giovanni ParoliCirillo Bernard BéguéBorov Adolph Mühlmann

Gretch Eugène DufricheLorek Vittorio Navarini

Un piccolo savoiardo Josephine JacobyBoleslao Lazinski Tullio Vogheramaestro direttore Arturo Vigna

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Le docteur Faust Charles RousselièreMéphistophélès Pol Plançon

Marguerite Geraldine FarrarValentin Riccardo Stracciari

Siébel Josephine JacobyDame Marthe Schwertlein Lina Simeoli

Wa gner Bernard Béguémaestro direttore Samuel Bovy


Heinrich der Vogler Robert BlassLohengrin Carl Burrian

Elsa von Brabant Emma EamesFriedrich von Telramund Anton van Rooy

Ortrud Louise Kirkby-LunnDer Heerrufer des Königs Adolph Mühlmann


1/15/07: Martha (Italian): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Lady Harriet Durham Marcella SembrichLyonel Enrico CarusoNancy Louise Homer

Plunkett Marcel JournetLord Tristan Mickleford Arcangelo Rossi

Der Richter zu Richmond Eugène Dufriche1. Magd India Waelchli2. Magd Estelle Shearman3. Magd Katherine Moran

Diener der Lady Vittorio Navarinimaestro direttore Arturo Vigna

Bianca FroehlichMiss Haban




Fafner Robert BlassErda Louise Kirkby-Lunn

Brünnhilde Katherine Fleischer-EdelStimme des WaldvogelsMarie Rappold


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1/29/07: Carmen: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, NY): stage director Eugène Dufriche

Carmen Olive FremstadDon José Charles RousselièreEscamillo Marcel Journet

Micaëla Marie RappoldFr asquita Marie MattfeldMercédès Josephine Jacoby

Zuniga Bernard BéguéMoralès Jules-Charles Simard


maestro direttore Samuel Bovy

Bianca Froehlich


Mimì Lina CavalieriRodolfo Andreas Dippel

Marcello Antonio ScottiSchaunard Jules-Charles Simard




Parpignol Giovanni ParoliSergente dei doganieri Mr. Dragoni

Un ufficiale Vittorio Navarinimaestro direttore Arturo Vigna

2/05/07: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Co., NY): stage d. Eugène Dufriche

Santuzza Celestina BoninsegnaLola Josephine Jacoby

Turiddu Andreas DippelAlfio Riccardo Stracciari

Lucia Lina Simeolimaestro direttore Arturo Vigna


Canio Charles RousselièreNedda Lina CavalieriTonio Antonio ScottiBeppe Albert ReissSilvio Jules-Charles Simard


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Ramfis Pol PlançonAmonasro Riccardo Stracciari

Un messaggero Giovanni ParoliUna sacerdotessa Lucille Lawrencemaestro direttore Arturo Vigna

Bianca Froehlich

2/14/07: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Cio-Cio-San Geraldine FarrarB. F. Pinkerton Enrico Caruso

Suzuki Louise HomerSharpless Riccardo Stracciari

Goro Albert ReissIl principe Yamadori Giovanni Paroli

Lo zio Yakusidé Arcangelo RossiLo zio Bonzo Adolph Mühlmann

Il commissario imperiale Bernard BéguéKate Pinkerton Helen Mapleson

L’ufficiale del registro Vittorio NavariniLa madre di Cio-cio-san Johanna Pöhlmann

La zia di Cio-cio-san Katherine MoranLa cugina di Cio-cio-san Estelle Shearman



Isolde Johanna GadskiTristan Carl Burrian



Ein junger Seemann Albert ReissEin Hirt Albert Reiss

Der Steuermann Julius Bayermaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

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2/21/07: Manon Lescaut: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Manon Lescaut Lina CavalieriLescaut Antonio Scotti

Il cavaliere Renato des GrieuxEnrico CarusoGeronte di Ravoir Vittorio Navarini

Edmondo Jacques BarsL’oste Bernard Bégué

Un sergente Vittorio NavariniUn musico Lina Simeoli

Un lampionaio Albert ReissIl maestro di ballo Giovanni Paroli

Un comandante di marina Bernard BéguéYouth unknown


2/26/07: Die Walküre: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): stage director AntonSchertel; set design Impekoven & Co. Obronsky; set design Max Brückner (Act II)


Wotan Otto GoritzSieglinde Olive Fremstad

Brünnhilde Johanna GadskiFricka Louise Kirkby-Lunn

Gerhilde Bella AltenOrtlinde Paula Ralph

Waltraute Marion WeedSchwertleite Paula Wöhning

Helmwige Lucy Lee CallSiegrune Marie Mattfeld

Grimgerde Johanna PöhlmannRoßweiße Josephine Jacoby


3/05/07: Hänsel und Gretel: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Hänsel Marie MattfeldGretel Bella Alten

Die Knusperhexe Louise HomerGertrud Marion Weed

Peter Otto GoritzSandmännchen Katherine MoranTaumännchen Estelle Shearman



Canio Enrico CarusoNedda Geraldine FarrarTonio Riccardo StracciariBeppe Albert ReissSilvio Jules-Charles Simard


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Marcello Antonio ScottiSchaunard Jules-Charles Simard




Parpignol Primo RaimondiSergente dei doganieri Mr. Dragoni

Un ufficiale Vittorio Navarinimaestro direttore Arturo Vigna

4/16/07: Faust (English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society, John Curtis): stage directorEdward S. Grant

Le docteur Faust William H. PagdinMéphistophélès Henry Hotz

Marguerite Sara RichardsValentin George Russell Strauss

Siébel Nancis E. FranceDame Marthe Schwertlein Vesta Williams Potts

Wa gner Lewis James Howellmaestro direttore Siegfried Behrens

5/16/07: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage director C. Linn Seiler

Richard, a pirate chief Franklin L. WoodSamuel, his lieutenant Henry W. Doughton, Jr.

Fr ederic, a pirate apprentice William H. PagdinMajor-General Stanley Charles Francis Ward

Edward, a sergent of police Arthur E. I. JacksonMabel Mrs. Archibald B. HubardEdith Mrs. James M. AndersKate Pauline F. Morris

Isabel Helen E. FreedleyRuth Emma D. Seiler

maestro direttore Selden Miller

5/17/07: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/18/07: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)9/10/07: Aida: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company)

Il re d’Egitto A. OteriAmneris Georgiana Strauss

Aida Rosa Duce-MerolaRadamès Lazar S. Samoiloff

Ramfis Enzo BozzanoAmonasro Cesare Alessandroni

Un messaggero A. MannoUna sacerdotessa unknownmaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

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9/14/07: Otello: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company)

Otello Lazar S. SamoiloffJa go Cesare Alessandroni

Cassio L. PaoliniRoderigo A. FrasconaLodovico Enzo BozzanoMontàno unknown

Un araldo unknownDesdemona Virginia Novelli

Emilia L. Odessanomaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

11/07/07: Aida (English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society, John Curtis): PhiladelphiaOrchestra of 80 members; chorus of 200; stage band of 14; four trumpeters; 100 soldiers fromNational Guard: Company I, Third Regiment; and Company E, First Regiment; 32 female dancers;12 male dancers; stage director Edward S. Grant

Il re d’Egitto T. Foster WhyAmneris Clara Yocum Joyce

Aida Mildred FaasRadamès Charles W. Tamme

Ramfis Henri ScottAmonasro George Russell Strauss

Un messaggero John H. Cromie, Jr.Una sacerdotessa Edna L. Cridermaestro direttore Siegfried Behrens

11/12/07: Aida (English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society): stage director Edward S. Grant

Il re d’Egitto Lewis James HowellAmneris Virginia Bisler

Aida Isabel BuchananRadamès Frederic C. Freemantel

Ramfis Frederick AyresAmonasro W. Preston Tyler

Un messaggero Austin HughesUna sacerdotessa Elizabeth D. Nashmaestro direttore Siegfried Behrens

11/26/07: Mefistofele: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Mefistofele Fyodor ChaliapinFaust Riccardo Martin (pka: Hugh Martin)

Margherita Geraldine FarrarElena Marie Rappold

Wa gner Giuseppe TecchiMarta Anne Girerd

Pantalis Josephine JacobyNerèo Giuseppe Tecchi

maestro direttore Franck Ferrari

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Il duca di Mantova Alessandro BonciRigoletto Riccardo Stracciari

Gilda Marcella SembrichSparafucile Marcel JournetMaddalena Josephine Jacoby

Giovanna Anne GirerdIl conte di Monterone Adolph Mühlmann

Il cavaliere Marullo Bernard BéguéMatteo Borsa Giuseppe Tecchi

Il conte di Ceprano Eugène DufricheLa contessa di Ceprano Lucille Lawrence

Usciere di corte Vittorio NavariniPa g gio della duchessaEdith Vail


12/09/07: Madama Butterfly(English): Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage / English Grand OperaCompany), hour: 2015: stage director Tito Ricordi, George Marion; scenery Walter Burridge;electrical effects Jos. C. Wilson; costume design Louis Neydhart, Paris; costumes byMme.Herrmann; stage manager Frank Ranney; assistant stage manager W. F. Kelly; carpenter Thos.Fitzgerald; electrician John Aurig; assistant electrician G. Blum; property master E. A. Bowden;wardrobe mistress Cora Malvern

Cio-cio-san Rena VivienneB. F. Pinkerton Vernon Stiles

Suzuki Harriet BehnerSharpless Thomas D. Richards

Goro Rudolph KochIl principe Yamadori George A. Natanson

Lo zio Bonzo Carl GantvoortIl commissario imperiale Francis J. Tyler

Kate Pinkerton Emile ColeL’ufficiale del registro unknown

La madre di Cio-cio-san Adelaide OttDolore Corinne Malvern

maestro direttore Walter F. Rothwell

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Kunz Vogelgesang Julius BayerKonrad Nachtigall Eugène DufricheSixtus BeckmesserOtto Goritz

Fritz Kothner Adolph MühlmannBalthasar Zorn Stephen Delwary

Ulrich Eißlinger Franklin RickerAugustin Moser Albert QuesnelHermann Ortel Charles FriedbergHans Schwarz Herbert Waterous

Hans Foltz Frederick GuntherWalter von Stolzing Heinrich Knote


Magdalene Marie MattfeldEin Nachtwächter Eugène Dufrichemaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

12/10/07: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Henry W. Savage / English Grand Opera Co.),hour: 2015: 12/09/07 except:

Cio-cio-san Phoebe StrakoschB. F. Pinkerton William Schneller

Suzuki Ethel DuFre HoustonSharpless Ottley Cranston

Kate Pinkerton Elaine D. Gilbertmaestro direttore Cornelius Dopper


B. F. Pinkerton William SchnellerSuzuki Ethel DuFre Houston

maestro direttore Cornelius Dopper


Cio-cio-san Elizabeth WolffSharpless Ottley Cranston

Kate Pinkerton Elaine D. Gilbert





Suzuki Ethel DuFre Houston

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Cio-cio-san Dora de Fillippemaestro direttore Cornelius Dopper




Kate Pinkerton Elaine D. Gilbertmaestro direttore Walter F. Rothwell


Cio-cio-san Elizabeth WolffB. F. Pinkerton William Schneller

Sharpless Ottley Cranstonmaestro direttore Cornelius Dopper


Suzuki Ethel DuFre HoustonKate Pinkerton Elaine D. Gilbert

maestro direttore Walter F. Rothwell


Cio-Cio-San Geraldine FarrarB. F. Pinkerton Enrico Caruso

Suzuki Josephine JacobySharpless Antonio Scotti

Goro Albert ReissIl principe Yamadori Eugène Dufriche

Lo zio Yakusidé Raffaele BarocchiLo zio Bonzo Adolph Mühlmann

Il commissario imperiale Bernard BéguéKate Pinkerton Lucille Lawrence

L’ufficiale del registro Vittorio NavariniLa madre di Cio-cio-san Jane van der Zee

La zia di Cio-cio-san Katherine MoranLa cugina di Cio-cio-san Edith Vail



Cio-cio-san Dora de FillippeB. F. Pinkerton William Schneller


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Cio-cio-san Elizabeth WolffKate Pinkerton Elaine D. Gilbert



B. F. Pinkerton William SchnellerSuzuki Ethel DuFre Houston

Sharpless Ottley Cranstonmaestro direttore Cornelius Dopper


Cio-cio-san Dora de FillippeKate Pinkerton Elaine D. Gilbert


Cio-cio-san Elizabeth WolffB. F. Pinkerton William Schneller



Kate Pinkerton Elaine D. Gilbertmaestro direttore Cornelius Dopper

12/30/07: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (San Carlo Grand Opera Company / Henry Russell)

La gioconda Lillian NordicaLaura Adorno Maria Claessens

Alvise Badoero Andrés de SegurolaLa cieca Rosa Olitzka

Enzo Grimaldo Florencio ConstantinoBarnaba Ramon Blanchert

Zuàne Attilio PulciniUn cantore unknown

Isèpo Giovanni GhidiniUn pilota unknown

Un monaco unknownmaestro direttore Arnaldo Conti


Il conte d’Almaviva Alessandro BonciIl dottore Bartolo Raffaele Barocchi

Rosina Rita Fornia Marcella Sembrich

Figaro Giuseppe CampanariDon Basilio Fyodor Chaliapin

Fiorello Bernard BéguéBerta Anne Girerd

Un ufficiale Giuseppe Tecchimaestro direttore Franck Ferrari

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12/31/07: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (San Carlo Grand Opera Company)

Il duca di Mantova Florencio ConstantinoRigoletto Victor Maurel

Gilda Alice NielsenSparafucile Giulio RossiMaddalena Guglielmina Marchi

Il conte di Monterone Attilio PulciniMatteo Borsa Ernesto Giaccone

La contessa di Ceprano unknownGiovanna Anita Perego

Il cavaliere Marullo Attilio FranziniIl conte di Ceprano unknown

Usciere di corte unknownPa g gio della duchessaunknown

maestro direttore Arnaldo Conti

19081/01/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), matinée

Il conte di Luna Rodolfo FornariLeonora Tina DesanaAzucena Rosa OlitzkaManrico Giuseppe Opezzo

Ferrando Oreste VillaniInes unknownRuiz Ernesto Giaccone

maestro direttore Shavalgia Giaccone

1/01/08: Carmen: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (San Carlo Grand Opera Company)

Carmen Jane NoriaDon José Carlo AlbaniEscamillo Andrés de Segurola

Micaëla Milly BramoniaFr asquita Anita PerigoMercédès Guglielmina Marchi

Zuniga Oreste VillaniMoralès Attilio Pulcini

Le Dancaïre Attilio FranziniLe Remendado Ernesto Giaccone


1/02/08: Aida: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (San Carlo Grand Opera Company)

Il re d’Egitto Oreste VillaniAmneris Maria Claessens

Aida Jane NoriaRadamès Florencio Constantino

Ramfis Andrés de SegurolaAmonasro Ramon Blanchert

Un messaggero Ernesto GiacconeUna sacerdotessa unknownmaestro direttore Arnaldo Conti

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1/03/08: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (San Carlo Grand Opera Company)

Il duca di Mantova Florencio ConstantinoRigoletto Victor Maurel

Gilda Alice NeilsonSparafucile Giulio RossiMaddalena Guglielmina Marchi

Il conte di Monterone Attilio PulciniMatteo Borsa Ernesto Giaccone

La contessa di Ceprano unknownGiovanna Anita Perego

Il cavaliere Marullo Attilio FranziniIl conte di Ceprano unknown

Usciere di corte unknownPa g gio della duchessaunknown


1/04/08: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), matinée

Santuzza Tina DesanaLola Milly Bramonia

Turiddu Carlo DaniAlfio Rodolfo Fornari

Lucia Anita Peregomaestro direttore Arnaldo Conti

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (San Carlo Grand Opera Company)

Canio Giuseppe OpezzoNedda Jane NoriaTonio Ramon BlanchertBeppe Ernesto GiacconeSilvio Carlo Albani


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1/04/08: Concert: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (San Carlo Grand Opera Company)Il barbiere di Siviglia (Acts II, III)

Il conte d’Almaviva Florencio ConstantinoIl dottore Bartolo M. Te vecchia

Rosina Alice NeilsonFigaro Rodolfo Fornari

Don Basilio Andrés de SegurolaBerta Anita Perego

La traviata (Act III)Violetta Valéry Lillian Nordica

Alfredo Germont Carlo CaniGiorgio Germont Ramon Blanchert

Flora Bervoix Anita Perego

Lucia di Lammermoor (Act II)Miss Lucia Alice Neilson

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodFlorencio ConstantinoLord Enrico Asthon Rodolfo FornariRaimondo Bidebent Giulio RossiLord Arturo Buclaw Ernesto Giaccone

Alisa Anita Perego


1/06/08: Ein Walzertraum(English): Philadelphia, Chesnut St. Opera House (Chestnut St. Opera House Company), hour:2000: stage manager Louis Abrams; carpenter Wm. McGovern; electrician Wm. Dunn; propertymaster G. Stinson; wardrobe mistress Alice V. Fenner (A week long run with two matinees Wed. andSat., hour: 1400)

Fürst Joachim XIII Charles A. BigelowPrinzessin Helene Magda Dahl

Graf Lothar Joseph W. HerbertLeutnant Niki Edward Johnson

Leutnant Montschi Edwin WilsonFriederike von Insterburg Catherine Inganoff

Wendolin Donald BuchananSigismund Joseph Carey

Fr anzi Steingruber Sophie BrandtDie Tschinellen-Fifi Josie Sadler

Annerl Geraldine Malonemaestro direttore Arthur Weld


Heinrich der Vogler Robert BlassLohengrin Heinrich Knote

Elsa von Brabant Emma EamesFriedrich von Telramund Otto Goritz

Ortrud Louise Kirkby-Lunn Louise Homer

Der Heerrufer des Königs Adolph Mühlmannmaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

1/13/08: Ein Walzertraum(English): Philadelphia, Chesnut St. Opera House (Chestnut St. Opera House Company), hour:2000: (A week long run with two matinees Wed. and Sat., hour: 1400)

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1/14/08: Adriana Lecouvreur: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Adriana Lecouvreur Lina CavalieriMaurizio Enrico Caruso

La principessa di Bouillon Josephine JacobyMichonnet Antonio Scotti

Il principe di Bouillon Marcel JournetL’abate di Chazeuil George Lucas

Madamigella Jouvenot Marie MattfeldMadamigella Dangeville Henriette Wakefield

Poisson Primo RaimondiQuinault Raffaele Barocchi

Un maggiordomo Vittorio Navarinimaestro direttore Franck Ferrari

Bianca Froehlich

1/21/08: La traviata: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Violetta Valéry Marcella SembrichAlfredo Germont Alessandro BonciGiorgio Germont Riccardo Stracciari

Flora Bervoix Marie Mattfeld Josephine Jacoby

Il barone Douphol Vittorio NavariniIl dottor Grenvil Vittorio Navarini

Annina Anne GirerdGastone di Letorières Giuseppe TecchiIl marchese d’Obigny Bernard Bégué


Bianca Froehlich

1/24/08: Le paradis de Mahomet(Robert Planquette) (English): Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre, matinée: (book by HenriBlondeau: adapted by Harry B. Smith and Robert B. Smith)

The Grand Vizer Joseph Herbert, Jr.Prince Bredindin Andrew Bogart

Radaboum Jefferson de AngelisBaskir Frank Doane

Maboul Charles HaltonSelika Maude Raymond

Fatima Queenie VassarBabouche Laura GueriteBengaline Blanche Ring

Nenea Mabel WeeksZaira Arline LaCrosse

Zelida Edna BroderickSarah Grace Walton

Ali Lily Lorrainemaestro direttore unknown

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Isolde Olive FremstadTristan Heinrich Knote




Der Steuermann Julius Bayermaestro direttore Gustav Mahler

1/30/08: Faust(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society)

Le docteur Faust William H. PagdinMéphistophélès Henri Scott

Marguerite Edith Virdin RiceValentin George Russell Strauss

Siébel Beatrice WaldenDame Marthe Schwertlein Florence Hendler James

Wa gner Howard F. Storymaestro direttore Siegfried Behrens

2/04/08: Iris (Mascagni): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Iris Emma EamesOsaka Enrico CarusoKyoto Antonio Scotti

Il cieco Marcel JournetUna guècha Rita Fornia

Un cenciaiuolo Giuseppe TecchiUn merciaiuolo Primo Raimondi


La bellezza Miss MenconiIl vampiro Miss HeschLa morte Miss Jirasek



Wotan Anton van RooySieglinde Olive Fremstad

Brünnhilde Johanna GadskiFricka Louise Kirkby-Lunn

Gerhilde Bella AltenOrtlinde Marion Weed

Waltraute Louise Kirkby-LunnSchwertleite Paula Wöhning

Helmwige Rita ForniaSiegrune Marie Mattfeld

Grimgerde Frieda LangendorffRoßweiße Josephine Jacoby

maestro direttore Gustav Mahler

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Don Giovanni Antonio ScottiIl Commendatore Robert Blass

Donna Anna Marion Weed Emma Eames

Donna Elvira Rita ForniaDon Ottavio Alessandro Bonci

Leporello Fyodor ChaliapinZerlina Geraldine FarrarMasetto Raffaele Barocchi



Mimì Lina CavalieriRodolfo Alessandro Bonci

Marcello Antonio ScottiSchaunard Bernard Bégué

Colline Raffaele Barocchi Marcel Journet

Eugène Dufriche Raffaele BarocchiBenoît

AlcindoroMusetta Fely Dereyne

Parpignol Giuseppe TecchiSergente dei doganieri Vittorio Navarini

Un ufficiale Mr. Dragonimaestro direttore Franck Ferrari


Il conte di Luna Riccardo StracciariLeonora Emma EamesAzucena Louise HomerManrico Enrico Caruso

Ferrando Adolph MühlmannInes Marie MattfeldRuiz Primo Raimondi

Un vecchio zingaro Vittorio Navarinimaestro direttore Franck Ferrari

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Hermann Robert BlassTannhäuser Carl Burrian (Act I)Tannhäuser Andreas Dippel (Acts II, III)

Wolfram von EschenbachAnton van RooyWalter von der Vogelweide Albert Reiss


Reinmar von Zweter Frederick GuntherElisabeth Berta Morena

Venus Olive FremstadEin Hirtenknabe Bella Alten

Pa g e unknownmaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

Bianca FroehlichMiss HeschMiss Jirasek


Il re d’Egitto Adolph MühlmannAmneris Louise Kirkby-Lunn


Ramfis Pol PlançonAmonasro Antonio Scotti

Un messaggero Giuseppe TecchiUna sacerdotessa Lucille Lawrencemaestro direttore Franck Ferrari

Bianca Froehlich

3/19/08: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Manhattan Opera Company Tour, Oscar Hammerstein)

Lord Enrico Asthon Mario SammarcoMiss Lucia Luisa Tetrazzini (aka: Signora Bazelli)

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodGiovanni ZenatelloLord Arturo Buclaw Emilio VenturiniRaimondo Bidebent Vittorio Arimondi

Alisa Gina SeverinaNormanno Francesco Daddi

maestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

3/24/08: Siegfried: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Siegfried Carl BurrianMime Albert Reiss


Fafner Robert BlassErda Louise Kirkby-Lunn

Brünnhilde Olive FremstadStimme des WaldvogelsBella Alten


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3/26/08: Louise: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Manhattan Opera Company Tour, Oscar Hammerstein)

Julien Charles DalmorèsLouise Mary Garden

La mère Clotilde Bressler-GianoliLa père Charles Gilibert

La petite chiffonnière unknownLa glaneuse de charbonunknown

La plieuse unknownLe bricoleur unknown

La laitière unknownLe chiffonnier Fernando Gianoli-Galletti

Le premier gardien de la paix M. ZainiLe deuxième gardien de la paixM. Giussani

Le gavroche Emma TrentiniLa balayeuse unknown

Le peintre Nicolo FossettaLe sculpteur unknown

Le chansonnier Vincenzo ReschiglianLe premier philosophe Armand Crabbé

Le jeune poète Francesco DaddiLe deuxième philosopheNicolo Fossetta

L’apprentie Ludmilla SigristL’étudiant M. Pierucci

Le rempailleur [Harry] DavisLa marchande d’artichauts Lillian Hayes

Le marchand de carottesunknownLa marchande de mouronAtala Valliere

Blanche Emma ZaccariaMarguerite Annie Laurie

Suzanne Helene KoèllingGertrude Giuseppina GiaconiaCamille Mauricia Morichini

Irma Alice ZeppilliÉlise unknown

Madeleine Julie HumeLe marchand d’habits Francesco Daddi

La première Grace InmanLe pape des fous Emilio Venturinimaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

3/31/08: Tosca: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Floria Tosca Emma EamesMario Cavaradossi Enrico Caruso


Il sagrestano Raffaele BarocchiSpoletta George Lucas

Sciarrone Bernard BéguéUn pastore Lucille Lawrence

Un carceriere Vittorio Navarinimaestro direttore Franck Ferrari

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4/27/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)

Il conte di Luna Homer LindLeonora Dorothy MortonAzucena Bertha ShalekManrico Umberto Sacchetti

Ferrando George ShieldsInes Rosetta NierRuiz Frederick Chapman

maestro direttore Max Fichandler

4/28/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)Alternate cast was:

Leonora Alice Kraft BentsonAzucena Hattie Belle LaddManrico Henri Barron

4/28/08: Martha (English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society): stage Harry McRae Webster

Lady Harriet Durham Flora BradleyNancy Mrs. Russell King Miller

Lord Tristan Mickleford Frederick G. ReesLyonel Joseph S. McGlynn

Plumkett Henri ScottDer Richter zu Richmond Charles D. Cuzner

maestro direttore Siegfried Behrens

4/29/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), matinée4/29/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)4/30/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/01/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/02/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), matinée5/02/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/04/08: Faust: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Boston English Opera Company, J. K. Murray)

Le docteur Faust Harry DavisMéphistophélès Francis J. Boyle

Marguerite Clara LaneValentin J. K. Murray

Siébel Louise le BaronDame Marthe Schwertlein Alma Stetzler

Wa gner W. H. Pringlemaestro direttore Selli Simonson

5/04/08: The bohemian girl(Michael William Balfe): Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Co.)

Count Arnheim Harry LuckstoneFlorestein Richard RidgeleyThaddeus Henri Barron

Devilshoof George ShieldsArline Dorothy Morton

The gypsy queen Bertha Shalekmaestro direttore Max Fichandler

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5/05/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Boston English Opera Company)

Il conte di Luna J. K. MurrayLeonora Helen DarlingAzucena Louise le BaronManrico George Tallman

Ferrando Francis J. BoyleInes Lois HallRuiz W. H. Pringle

maestro direttore Selli Simonson

5/05/08: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/06/08: Faust: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Boston English Opera Company), matinée: 5/04/085/06/08: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), matinée5/06/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Boston English Opera Company): 5/05/085/06/08: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/07/08: Faust: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Boston English Opera Company): 5/04/085/07/08: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/07/08: The Yeomen of the Guard: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage director Joseph Craig

Fox; stage manager J. Barry Colahan, III; accompanist Mrs. Edith Mahon

Sir Richard Cholmondeley Howard B. StaversColonel Fairfax Wilbur HerwigSergeant Meryll Franklin L. WoodLeonard Meryll G. Plantou Middleton

Jack Point Joseph Craig FoxWilfred Shadbolt Norman St. C. Hales

The Headsman Howell W. PancoastFirst Yeoman George B. Morrell

Second Yeoman John Clark SimsThird Yeoman Spencer P. Hazard

Fourth Yeoman Clarence C. BrintonFirst Citizen Horace M. Lippincott

Second Citizen Samuel HazardElsie Maynard Mrs. Emma F. RihlPhoebe Meryll Fannie Waln

Dame Carruthers Elsie Morris BrintonKate Nancy M. Greer

maestro direttore Selden Miller

5/08/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Boston English Opera Company): 5/05/085/08/08: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/08/08: The Yeomen of the Guard: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/09/08: Faust: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Boston English Opera Company), matinée: 5/04/085/09/08: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), matinée5/09/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Boston English Opera Company): 5/05/085/09/08: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/09/08: The Yeomen of the Guard: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

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5/11/08: Lohengrin[English]: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Boston English Opera Company)

Heinrich der Vogler Francis J. BoyleLohengrin George Tallman

Elsa von Brabant Clara LaneFriedrich von Telramund J. K. Murray

Ortrud Louise le BaronDer Heerrufer des Königs W. H. Pringle

Vier brabantische Edlen unknownVier Edelknaben unknownmaestro direttore Siegfried Behrens

5/11/08: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)

Santuzza Bertha ShalekLola Alice Kraft Bentson

Turiddu Umberto SacchettiAlfio Harry Luckstone

Lucia Hattie Arnoldmaestro direttore Max Fichandler

H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/12/08: La traviata: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Boston English Opera Company)

Violetta Valéry Helen DarlingAlfredo Germont Thomas E. GreeneGiorgio Germont Daniel Cantori

Flora Bervoix Alma StetzlerIl barone Douphol W. H. Pringle

Il dottor Grenvil Francis J. BoyleAnnina Annie Remley

Gastone di Letorières George WhiteIl marchese d’Obigny C. A. Pendleton


5/12/08: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)

5/13/08: La traviata: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Boston English Opera Company), matinée5/13/08: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), matinée

H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/13/08: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)



H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/16/08: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), matinée


H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)

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5/18/08: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)

Il re d’Egitto George CromptonAmneris Greta Risley

Aida Alice Kraft BentsonRadamès Henri Barron

Ramfis George ShieldsAmonasro Homer Lind

Un messaggero Frederick ChapmanUna sacerdotessa Miriam Norrismaestro direttore Max Fichandler

5/19/08: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)Alternate cast was:

Amneris Bertha ShalekAida Dorothy Morton

Radamès Jules Gogny

5/20/08: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), matinée5/20/08: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/21/08: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/22/08: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/23/08: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), matinée5/23/08: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/25/08: Les contes d’Hoffmann(English): Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company):

stage director Chas. H. Jones (english translation G. M. Fulle)

Hoffmann Henri BarronNicklausse Fritzie von Busing

La Muse Hester CollinsOlympia Eily BarnatoAntonia Eily Barnato

Giulietta not performedLindorf Homer Lind

Coppélius Homer LindDr. Miracle Homer LindDapertutto not performed

Andrès Sol SolomonCochenille Sol Solomon

Fr antz Sol SolomonPitichinaccio not performed

La mère d’Antonia Miriam NorrisSpalanzani Henry Vogel

Hermann Frederick ChapmanSchlémil not performed

Nathanaël Miriam NorrisLuther C. W. Phillips

Crespel Henry VogelStella Eily Barnato


5/26/08: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/27/08: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/28/08: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)5/29/08: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)

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5/30/08: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company)6/01/08: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Carmen Bertha ShalekDon José Charles BassettEscamillo Forrest Huff

Micaëla Eily BarnatoFr asquita Miriam NorrisMercédès Hester Collins

Zuniga Richard RidgeleyMoralès George Crompton

Le Dancaïre George CromptonLe Remendado Sol Solomon


6/02/08: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 1415

Don José Umberto Sacchetti (alternate)

6/02/08: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 20156/03/08: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 20156/04/08: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 14156/04/08: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 20156/05/08: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 20156/06/08: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 14156/06/08: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

10/19/08: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: stagedirector and ballet master Riccardo Sant-Elia


Aida Helena ThierryRadamès Nunzio Bari

Ramfis G. GravinaAmonasro Adolfo Pacini

Un messaggero unknownUna sacerdotessa E. Davismaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

10/20/08: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: stagedirector and ballet master Riccardo Sant-Elia

Carmen Rosa Duce MerolaDon José Eugenio TorreEscamillo G. Zara

Micaëla Julia AllenFr asquita D. DonnerMercédès Mme.Bossi

Zuniga A. OteriMoralès A. Frascona

Le Dancaïre A. FrasconaLe Remendado A. Paolini

maestro direttore Gaetano Merola

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10/21/08: Fedora: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: stagedirector and ballet master Riccardo Sant-Elia

La principessa Fedora RomazovHelena ThierryIl conte Loris Ipanov Eugenio Torre

La contessa Olga SukarevD. DonnerIl conte Giovanni de Siriex Adolfo Pacini

Dimitri Mlle. G. ManzaroleDésiré A. Paolini

Il barone Rouvel A. PaoliniCirillo G. GravinaBorov A. Frascona

Gretch A. OteriLorek A. Frascona

Un piccolo savoiardo Mlle. G. Manzarolemaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

10/22/08: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Co.), hour: 1415:stage director and ballet master Riccardo Sant-Elia

Il conte d’Almaviva Eugenio TorreIl dottore Bartolo G. Zara

Rosina Julia AllenFigaro Adolfo Pacini

Don Basilio A. OteriFiorello unknown

Berta Mme.Bossimaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

10/22/08: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Co.), hour: 2015:stage director and ballet master Riccardo Sant-Elia

Santuzza Rosa Duce MerolaLola Mme.A. Bossi

Turiddu Nunzio BariAlfio Adolfo Pacini

Lucia Madalina Bossimaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company)

Canio Nunzio BariNedda Rosa Duce MerolaTonio Adolfo PaciniBeppe A. PaoliniSilvio G. Zara

maestro direttore Gaetano Merola Giuseppe Angelini-Fornari

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10/23/08: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Co.), hour: 2015:stage director and ballet master Riccardo Sant-Elia

Miss Lucia Julia AllenSir Edgardo di RavenswoodEugenio Torre

Lord Enrico Asthon G. ZaraRaimondo Bidebent A. OteriLord Arturo Buclaw A. Paolini

Alisa Madalina BossiNormanno G. Giuliano


10/24/08: La traviata: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company), hour: 1415: stagedirector and ballet master Riccardo Sant-Elia

Violetta Valéry Julia AllenAlfredo Germont Eugenio TorreGiorgio Germont G. Zara

Flora Bervoix AlmaIl barone Douphol A. Paolini

Il dottor Grenvil M. CaldaraAnnina Madalina Bossi

Gastone di Letorières M. LogintoIl marchese d’Obigny M. Alberti


10/24/08: Faust: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: stagedirector and ballet master Riccardo Sant-Elia

Le docteur Faust Nunzio BariMéphistophélès G. Gravina

Marguerite Helena ThierryValentin Adolfo Pacini

Siébel Georgiana StraussDame Marthe Schwertlein Madalina Bossi

Wa gner A. Frasconamaestro direttore Gaetano Merola Giuseppe Angelini-Fornari

10/26/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company): stage directorand ballet master Riccardo Sant-Elia

Il conte di Luna G. ZaraLeonora Helena ThierryAzucena Georgiana StraussManrico Nunzio Bari

Ferrando A. OteriInes D. DonnerRuiz G. Guiliano


10/27/08: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company): stage director andballet master Riccardo Sant-Elia

cast unknown

10/28/08: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Opera Company): 10/23/0810/29/08: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Co.), matinée: 10/22/08

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company): 10/22/08

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10/29/08: Aida: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company): 10/19/08 except:

Un messaggero G. Giuliano

10/30/08: La traviata: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company)10/31/08: Carmen: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company), matinée: 10/20/0810/31/08: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company)

cast unknownmaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

11/05/08: Les huguenots(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society): stage directorWilliam Parry; ballet master Albert W. Newman; assistant musical director Wassili Leps, Clarence K.Bawden; assistant stage director Harry W. Scholl, Arthur Keighley; stage manager William J. Parker;orchestra manager C. Stanley Mackey; fencing master Wm. G. Herrmann; master of properties JohnLamond; costumes Van Horn & Son; wigs A. M. Buch & Co.

Marguerite de Valois Flora BradleyLe comte de Saint-Bris Frederick G. Rees

Valentine Isabel BuchananLe comte de NeversW. Preston Tyler

Urbain Beatrice WaldenDe Cossé Austin G. HughesTavannes John H. Cromie, Jr.

De Retz William J. O’DonnellMéru unknown

Maurevert Charles J. ShuttleworthRaoul de Nangis Frederic C. Freemantel

Marcel Frank M. ConlyBois-Rosé George W. Malpass

Premier moine Albert PolandDeuxième moine Charles D. CuznerTr oisième moine Charles J. Shuttleworth

Deux demoiselles d’honneur de la reine Mabel Fallin

Harriet T. BagleyA servant Thomas Mohr

Watchman Charles D. Cuznermaestro direttore Siegfried Behrensmaestro del coro Stanley Muschamp

11/10/08: Les huguenots(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society): 11/05/08 except:

Marguerite de Valois Elsie North SchuylerValentine Adele Fabiani

Le comte de NeversCarl H. RobinsonUrbain Rebecca M. Conway

De Cossé Thomas MohrRaoul de Nangis William H. Pagdin

A servant Austin Hughes

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11/17/08: La bohème: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): stage director JulesSpeck; costume design Blaschke & Cie


Marcello Antonio ScottiSchaunard Giulio Rossi

Colline Adamo DidurBenoît Paolo Ananian

Alcindoro Concetto PaternaMusetta Isabelle L’Huillier

Parpignol Angelo BadàSergente dei doganieri Edoardo Missiano

Un ufficiale Giuseppe Tecchimaestro direttore Francesco Spetrino

11/17/08: Carmen(inauguration of new theater): Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company,Oscar Hammerstein), hour: 2000: general musical director Giuseppe Sturani; assistant conductorAttilio Parelli, Marcel Charlier; stage director Jacques Coini; stage manager Luigi Albertieri;assistant stage manager George Engel, Carlo Muzzio; master machinist Theodore Reisig; master ofproperties George Hutty; chief electrician William F. Hall; scenic department Julius F. Dowe, FritzWeisse; costumer N. L. Anzillotti; wigs Hauswirth & Zauder

Carmen Maria LabiaDon José Charles DalmorèsEscamillo Andrés de Segurola

Micaëla Alice ZeppilliFr asquita Emma TrentiniMercédès Adele Ponzano

Zuniga Félix VieuilleMoralès Vincenzo Reschiglian

Le Dancaïre Charles GilibertLe Remendado Francesco Daddi

maestro direttore Cleofonte Campaninimaestro del coro Josiah Zuro

Grand corps de balletpremière danseuse Odette Valéry

11/19/08: Samson et Dalila: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein),hour: 2000: stage director Jacques Coini; stage manager Luigi Albertieri

Dalila Jeanne Gerville-RéacheSamson Charles Dalmorès

Le grand-prêtre de Dagon Hector DufranneAbimélech Armand Crabbé

Un vieillard hébreu Félix VieuilleUn messager philistin Emilio Venturini

Premier Philistin Vincenzo MontanariDeuxième Philistin Vincenzo Reschiglian

maestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

première danseuse etoile Odette Valéry

78

11/21/08: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein),hour: 1415: stage director Jacques Coini

Il conte d’Almaviva Angelo ParolaIl dottore Bartolo Charles Gilibert

Rosina Luisa TetrazziniFigaro Giovanni Polese

Don Basilio Andrés de SegurolaFiorello Vincenzo Montanari

Berta Gina SeverinaUn ufficiale Vincenzo Montanari


11/21/08: Tosca: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein), hour: 2000

Floria Tosca Maria LabiaMario Cavaradossi Giovanni Zenatello

Il barone Scarpia Mario SammarcoCesare Angelotti Giuseppe de Grazia

Il sagrestano Fernando Gianoli-GallettiSpoletta Vincenzo Montanari

Sciarrone Michele SampieriUn pastore Gina Severina

Un carceriere Michele Sampierimaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani


Le docteur Faust Enrico CarusoMéphistophélès Adamo Didur

Marguerite Geraldine FarrarValentin Jean Noté

Siébel Rita ForniaDame Marthe Schwertlein Marie Mattfeld

Wa gner Paolo Ananianmaestro direttore Richard Hageman

Gina Torriani

11/24/08: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein), hour: 2000:stage director Jacques Coini

Thaïs Mary GardenAthanaël Maurice Renaud

Nicias Andrien VallèsPalémon Félix VieuilleCrobyle Emma Trentini

Adele PonzanoMyrtaleAlbine

Le serviteur de Nicias Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

79

11/26/08: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein):stage director Albertieri

Lord Enrico Asthon Giovanni PoleseMiss Lucia Luisa Tetrazzini

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodGiuseppe TaccaniLord Arturo Buclaw Emilio VenturiniRaimondo Bidebent Vittorio Arimondi

Alisa Gina SeverinaNormanno Vincenzo Montanari


11/28/08: Samson et Dalila: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein),matinée: 11/19/08 except:

Dalila Augusta DoriaPremier Philistin Ugo Malfatti

11/28/08: Les huguenots: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)

Marguerite de Valois Alice ZeppilliLe comte de Saint-Bris Giuseppe de Grazia

Valentine Adelina AgostinelliLe comte de NeversGiovanni Polese

Urbain Mme.Mariska-AldrichDe Cossé Francesco DaddiTavannes Emilio Venturini

De Retz Michele ZwibachMéru M. Cacici

Maurevert M. CaciciRaoul de Nangis Giovanni Zenatello

Marcel Vittorio ArimondiBois-Rosé Emilio Venturini

Deux demoiselles d’honneur de la reine Gina Severina

Maria Avezzamaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani


Il re d’Egitto Giulio RossiAmneris Louise Homer

Aida Emmy DestinnRadamès Enrico Caruso

Ramfis Adamo DidurAmonasro Pasquale Amato

Un messaggero Angelo BadàUna sacerdotessa Lenora Sparkesmaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini

Gina Torriani

80

12/01/08: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)

Il duca di Mantova Florencio ConstantinoRigoletto Mario Sammarco

Gilda Luisa TetrazziniSparafucile Vittorio ArimondiMaddalena Adele Ponzano

Il conte di Monterone Charles GilibertMatteo Borsa Emilio Venturini

La contessa di Ceprano Minnie EgenerGiovanna Gina Severina

Il cavaliere Marullo Nicolo FossettaIl conte di Ceprano Vincenzo Reschiglian

Pa g gio della duchessaunknownmaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

12/03/08: Le jongleur de Notre Dame: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, OscarHammerstein): stage director Jacques Coini

Jean Mary GardenBoniface Maurice RenaudLe prieur Hector Dufranne

Un moine sculpteur Félix VieuilleUn moine peintre Andrés de Segurola

Un moine musicien Armand CrabbéUn moine poète Andrien Vallès

Un loustic M. GherkierUn ivrogne Louis Zuro

Un chevalier M. Pieruccimaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

12/05/08: Carmen: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein), matinée

Carmen Jeanne Gerville-RéacheDon José Charles DalmorèsEscamillo Andrés de Segurola

Micaëla Alice ZeppilliFr asquita Emma TrentiniMercédès Adele Ponzano Maria Avezza

Zuniga Giuseppe de GraziaMoralès Vincenzo Reschiglian



première danseuse Annita Malinverni

81

12/05/08: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein),hour: 1945: stage manager Luigi Albertieri

Santuzza Maria LabiaLola Adele Ponzano

Turiddu Giuseppe TaccaniAlfio Giovanni Polese

Lucia Maria Avezzamaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

La chair (invented by Georges Wagues; music Albert Chantrier): Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House(Philadelphia Opera Company): stage director Jacques Coini

The wife Odette ValéryThe lover Christine Kerf

The husband Vincenzo Montanarimaestro direttore Marcel Charlier

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.): stage manager Luigi Albertieri

Canio Giovanni ZenatelloNedda Jeanne EspinasseTonio Giovanni PoleseBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Vincenzo Reschiglian


12/07/08: Robin Hood(Reginald de Koven): Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company),hour: 2015: stage manager J. W. Bartlett; master mechanic Manny Ward: librarian Walter Halbach;mistress of wardrobeMrs. Moore

Robert of Huntingdon(Robin Hood) Harry DavisLady Marian Fitzwalter(Maid Marian) Estelle WentworthSir Tristan Testy, sheriff of NottinghamClarence Harvey

Sir Guy of Gisborne Frank WooleyDame Durden Agnes Stone

Annabel Violet ColbyWill Scarlet George ShieldsLittle John Harry LuckstoneFriar Tuck George B. Frothingham

Alan-a-Dale Hattie Belle Laddmaestro direttore Max Fichandler

12/08/08: Tiefland: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Sebastiano Fritz FeinhalsTommaso Allen Hinckley

Marta Emmy DestinnPepa Rita Fornia

Antonia Marie MattfeldRosalia Maria Ranzow

Nuri Isabelle L’HuillierMoruccio Adolph Mühlmann

Pedro Erik SchmedesNando Albert Reiss


82

12/08/08: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 2000:11/26/08 except:

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodFlorencio Constantino

12/08/08: Robin Hood: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 141512/08/08: Robin Hood: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 201512/09/08: Robin Hood: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 201512/10/08: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): stage director

Jacques Coini

Hoffmann Charles DalmorèsNicklausse Augusta Doria

Olympia Alice ZeppilliAntonia Emma Trentini

Giulietta Jeanne EspinasseLindorf Armand Crabbé

Maurice Renaud

CoppéliusDr. MiracleDapertuttoCochenille Armand Crabbé

Fr antz Fernando Gianoli-GallettiPitichinaccio Francesco Daddi

Voix Mme.Mariska-AldrichSpalanzani Charles Gilibert

Hermann Vincenzo ReschiglianSchlémil Armand Crabbé

Nathanaël Emilio VenturiniLuther Nicolo Fossetta

Crespel Charles Gilibertmaestro direttore Marcel Charlier

12/10/08: Robin Hood: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 141512/10/08: Robin Hood: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 201512/12/08: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 1400

Santuzza Maria LabiaLola Mme.Mariska-Aldrich

Turiddu Carlo TaccaniAlfio Giovanni Polese


La chair: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein): 12/05/08Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)

Canio Giovanni ZenatelloNedda Jeanne EspinasseTonio Giovanni PoleseBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Armand Crabbé


12/11/08: Robin Hood: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 201512/12/08: Samson et Dalila: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 11/19/0812/12/08: Robin Hood: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 1415

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12/12/08: Robin Hood: Philadelphia, Grand Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 201512/15/08: Tosca: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Floria Tosca Emma EamesMario Cavaradossi Alessandro Bonci

Il barone Scarpia Antonio ScottiCesare Angelotti Paolo Ananian

Il sagrestano Concetto PaternaSpoletta Angelo Badà

Sciarrone Bernard BéguéUn pastore Emma Borniggia

Un carceriere Edoardo Missianomaestro direttore Francesco Spetrino

12/15/08: Le jongleur de Notre Dame: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.): 12/03/0812/17/08: La bohème: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)

Mimì Nellie MelbaRudolfo Giovanni Zenatello

Marcello Giovanni PoleseSchaunard Vincenzo Reschiglian

Colline Andrés de Segurola

Fernando Gianoli-GallettiBenoît

AlcindoroMusetta Emma Trentini

Parpignol Ugo Malfattimaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

12/19/08: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein),matinée: stage director Jacques Coini

Il conte di Luna Nicolo FossettaLeonora Adelina AgostinelliAzucena Augusta DoriaManrico Giovanni Zenatello

Ferrando Giuseppe de GraziaInes Maria AvezzaRuiz Vincenzo Montanari

Un vecchio zingaro Gaetano FanelliUn messaggero Vincenzo Montanari


12/19/08: La traviata: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein), hour: 2000:stage director Jacques Coini

Violetta Valéry Luisa TetrazziniAlfredo Germont Giuseppe TaccaniGiorgio Germont Giovanni Polese

Flora Bervoix Minnie EgenerIl barone Douphol Michele Sampieri

Il dottor Grenvil Michele SampieriAnnina Maria Avezza

Gastone di Letorières Vincenzo MontanariIl marchese d’Obigny Rocco Franzini

Giuseppe Ugo Malfattimaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini


84

12/22/08: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Lord Enrico Asthon Giuseppe CampanariMiss Lucia Marcella Sembrich

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodAlessandro BonciLord Arturo Buclaw Giuseppe TecchiRaimondo Bidebent Giulio Rossi

Alisa Marie MattfeldNormanno Umberto Bedeschi

maestro direttore Francesco Spetrino

12/22/08: La traviata: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 12/19/08 except:

Alfredo Germont Florencio ConstantinoGastone di Letorières Ugo Malfatti

Giuseppe M. Boitz

12/24/08: Le jongleur de Notre Dame: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 2030:12/03/08 except:

Boniface Charles Gilibert

12/25/08: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Jacques Coini


Turiddu Angelo ParolaAlfio Giovanni Polese


Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): stage director Jacques Coini

Canio Carlo TaccaniNedda Jeanne EspinasseTonio Giovanni PoleseBeppe Ugo MalfattiSilvio Vincenzo Reschiglian


La chair: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): stage director Jacques Coini


The husband Mr. Sant-Eliamaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

12/26/08: Tosca: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein), matinée

Floria Tosca Maria LabiaMario Cavaradossi Giuseppe Taccani

Il barone Scarpia Giovanni PoleseCesare Angelotti Giuseppe de Grazia

Il sagrestano Fernando Gianoli-GallettiSpoletta Vincenzo Montanari

Sciarrone Michele SampieriUn pastore Gina Severina


85

12/26/08: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein): 11/24/08 except:

Palémon Giuseppe de GraziaLe serviteur de Nicias Nicolo Fossetta



Cio-Cio-San Emmy DestinnB. F. Pinkerton Enrico Caruso

Suzuki Rita ForniaSharpless Pasquale Amato

Goro Angelo BadàIl principe Yamadori Concetto Paterna

Lo zio Yakusidé Concetto PaternaLo zio Bonzo Adolph Mühlmann

Il commissario imperiale Bernard BéguéKate Pinkerton Helen Mapleson

L’ufficiale del registro Paolo AnanianLa madre di Cio-cio-san Paula Wöhning

La cugina Marie MattfeldLa zia Henriette Wakefield

maestro direttore Arturo Toscanini

12/29/08: La bohème: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein), hour: 2000:stage director Jacques Coini

Mimì Nellie MelbaRudolfo Giovanni Zenatello

Marcello Giovanni PoleseSchaunard Charles Gilibert


Fernando Gianoli-GallettiBenoît


Parpignol Ugo MalfattiSergente dei doganieri Michele Sampieri

Un ufficiale Giuseppe Cernuscomaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

86

12/31/08: Tosca: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein), hour: 2000:stage director Jacques Coini

Floria Tosca Maria LabiaMario Cavaradossi Giuseppe Taccani


Il sagrestano Nicolo FossettaSpoletta Vincenzo Montanari

Sciarrone Michele SampieriUn pastore Maria Avezza


La chair: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)


The husband Mr. Sant-Eliamaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

19091/01/09: Les huguenots: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein),

hour: 2000: stage director Jacques Coini

Marguerite de Valois Alice ZeppilliLe comte de Saint-Bris Andrés de Segurola

Valentine Adelina AgostinelliLe comte de NeversGiovanni Polese

Urbain Mme.Mariska-AldrichDe Cossé Francesco DaddiTavannes Vincenzo Montanari

Ruiz Giuseppe CernuscoThoré Vincenzo Reschiglian

De Retz Gaetano FanelliMéru Rocco Franzini

Maurevert Rocco FranziniRaoul de Nangis Florencio Constantino

Marcel Vittorio ArimondiBois-Rosé Ugo Malfatti

Deux demoiselles d’honneur de la reine Adele Ponzano

Maria AvezzaArcher Vincenzo Reschiglian

Leonard Minnie Egenermaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani


1/02/09: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 1400: 11/24/08 except:

maestro direttore Marcel Charlier Giuseppe Sturani

87

1/02/09: Carmen: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein), hour:2000: stage director Jacques Coini

Carmen Maria LabiaDon José Charles DalmorèsEscamillo Hector Dufranne

Micaëla Alice ZeppilliFr asquita Emma TrentiniMercédès Adele Ponzano

Zuniga Giuseppe de GraziaMoralès Vincenzo Reschiglian



première danseuse Odette Valéry


Il duca di Mantova Alessandro BonciRigoletto Giuseppe Campanari Antonio Scotti

Gilda Marcella SembrichSparafucile Adamo Didur Giulio Rossi

Maddalena Matja von Niessen-Stone Louise Homer

Giovanna Paula WöhningIl conte di Monterone Enzo Bozzano

Il cavaliere Marullo Paolo AnanianMatteo Borsa Giuseppe Tecchi Angelo Badà

Il conte di Ceprano Alessandro TrettiLa contessa di Ceprano Helen Mapleson

Pa g gio della duchessaEmma Borniggiamaestro direttore Francesco Spetrino

Gina Torriani

1/05/09: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein)

Santuzza Adelina AgostinelliLola Mme.Mariska-Aldrich



Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)

Canio Giovanni ZenatelloNedda Jeanne EspinasseTonio Giovanni PoleseBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Vincenzo Reschiglian


88

1/07/09: Tristan und Isolde: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Isolde Olive FremstadTristan Erik Schmedes

Brangäne Louise HomerKurwenal Fritz Feinhals



Der Steuermann Julius Bayermaestro direttore Gustav Mahler

1/07/09: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein): 12/01/08 except:

Il conte di Monterone Nicolo FossettaIl cavaliere Marullo Vincenzo Reschiglian

Matteo Borsa Ugo MalfattiIl conte di Ceprano Rocco Franzini

Pa g gio della duchessaMinnie Egener

1/09/09: La traviata: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), matinée: 12/19/08 except:

Violetta Valéry Nellie MelbaAnnina Gina Severina


1/09/09: La bohème: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein): 12/17/08 except:

Mimì Adelina AgostinelliSchaunard Charles Gilibert

Vincenzo ReschiglianBenoît

AlcindoroMusetta Alice Zeppilli



Carmen Maria GayDon José Enrico CarusoEscamillo Jean Noté

Micaëla Marie RappoldFr asquita Rita ForniaMercédès Matja von Niessen-Stone

Zuniga Bernard BéguéMoralès Eduardo Cibelli

Le Dancaïre Angelo BadàLe Remendado Concetto Paterna


Gina Torriani

1/12/09: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein), hour:2000: 12/10/08 except:

Nicklausse unknownAntonia Helene Koèlling Emma Trentini

Cochenille Francesco DaddiLuther Rocco Franzini

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1/14/09: Otello: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein): stagemanager Luigi Albertieri

Otello Giovanni ZenatelloJa go Giovanni Polese

Cassio Emilio VenturiniRoderigo Vincenzo MontanariLodovico Andrés de SegurolaMontàno Armand Crabbé

Un araldo Rocco FranziniDesdemona Maria Labia

Emilia Augusta Doriamaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

1/16/09: La bohème: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein), hour: 1400:stage manager Luigi Albertieri

Mimì Alice Zeppilli Adelina Agostinelli

Rudolfo Florencio ConstantinoMarcello Giovanni Polese

Schaunard Nicolo FossettaColline Andrés de Segurola

Vincenzo ReschiglianBenoît


Parpignol Ugo MalfattiSergente dei doganieri Michele Sampieri

Un ufficiale Giuseppe Cernuscomaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

1/16/09: Le jongleur de Notre Dame: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein)

Jean Mary GardenBoniface Charles GilibertLe prieur Hector Dufranne

Un moine sculpteur Félix VieuilleUn moine peintre Andrés de Segurola

Un moine musicien Armand CrabbéUn moine poète Andrien Vallès

Un loustic unknownUn ivrogne unknown

Un chevalier unknownmaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

90

1/19/09: Le villi : Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Guglielmo Pasquale AmatoAnna Frances Alda

Roberto Alessandro Boncimaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini


Santuzza Emmy DestinnLola Maria Gay

Turiddu Enrico CarusoAlfio Pasquale Amato

Lucia Marie Mattfeldmaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini

1/19/09: Samson et Dalila: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 2000: 11/19/081/21/09: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 2000: 12/19/08 except:

Il conte di Luna Giovanni PoleseAzucena Jeanne Gerville-Réache

1/23/09: Crispino e la comare(Luigi Ricci): Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, OscarHammerstein), hour: 1400: stage manager Luigi Albertieri

Crispino Tracchetto Fernando Gianoli-GallettiAnnetta Luisa Tetrazzini

Don Asdrubale di Caparotta Nicolo FossettaLa comare Gina Severina

Fabrizio Mario SammarcoMirabolano Vittorio Arimondi

Il contino del Fiore Emilio VenturiniBartolo M. Pierucci

maestro direttore Attilio Parelli

Luisa TetrazziniJulius Benedict The carnival of Venice (with variations)

La mort de Cléopâtre(ballet: music Louis Ganne): choreography Odette Valéry; stage manager Luigi Albertieri

Odette Valérymaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

1/23/09: Otello: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 2000: 1/14/09 except:

Montàno Nicolo Fossetta

91


Il conte d’Almaviva Antonio ScottiLa contessa d’Almaviva Emma Eames

Susanna Marcella SembrichFigaro Adamo Didur

Cherubino Geraldine FarrarMarcellina Marie Mattfeld

Doctor Bartolo Concetto PaternaDon Basilio Albert ReissDon Curzio Giuseppe Tecchi

Antonio Paolo AnanianBarbarina Isabelle L’Huillier

Prima giovinetta Lenora SparkesSeconda giovinetta Lillia Snelling


Gina Torriani

1/26/09: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein): 12/01/08 except:

Rigoletto Giovanni PoleseMatteo Borsa Ugo Malfatti

Giovanna Maria AvezzaIl cavaliere Marullo Michele Sampieri


1/28/09: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Il conte di Luna Giuseppe CampanariLeonora Marie RappoldAzucena Marianne Flahaut Louise Homer

Manrico Enrico CarusoFerrando Enzo Bozzano

Ines Henriette WakefieldRuiz Giuseppe Tecchi

Un vecchio zingaro Edoardo Missianomaestro direttore Giulio Setti

unknown

1/28/09: Faust: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein): stagemanager Luigi Albertieri

Le docteur Faust Florencio ConstantinoMéphistophélès Vittorio Arimondi

Marguerite Lina CavalieriValentin Giovanni Polese

Siébel Alice ZeppilliDame Marthe Schwertlein Maria Avezza

Wa gner Michele Sampierimaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

92

1/30/09: Otello: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 1400: 1/14/09 except:

Cassio M. AgostiRoderigo M. ZainiLodovico Giuseppe CernuscoMontàno Michele Sampieri

Emilia Adele Ponzano Maria Avezza

1/30/09: La sonnambula: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)

Amina Luisa TetrazziniElvino Angelo Parola

Il conte Rodolfo Vittorio ArimondiTeresa Maria Avezza

Lisa Emma TrentiniAlessio Fernando Gianoli-Galletti

Un notaio Michele Sampierimaestro direttore Attilio Parelli


Hans Sachs Fritz FeinhalsVeit Pogner Allen Hinckley

Kunz Vogelgesang Julius BayerKonrad Nachtigall Erik SchubertSixtus BeckmesserOtto Goritz

Fritz Kothner Adolph MühlmannBalthasar Zorn Stephen Delwary

Ulrich Eißlinger Walter KochAugustin Moser Josef SundermannHermann Ortel Arthur TriebnerHans Schwarz Herbert Waterous

Hans Foltz Otto LötzschWalter von Stolzing Carl Jörn (aka: Carl Edward Heinrich)

David Albert ReissEva Emmy Destinn

Magdalene Louise HomerEin Nachtwächter Paolo Ananianmaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

2/02/09: Tosca: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein): 11/21/08 except:

Floria Tosca Lina CavalieriIl barone Scarpia Maurice Renaud

Sciarrone Nicolo FossettaUn pastore Maria Avezza

Un carceriere Vincenzo Reschiglian

2/04/09: Crispino e la comare: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 1/23/09Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company)


Turiddu Florencio ConstantinoAlfio Giovanni Polese


93

2/06/09: La sonnambula: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), matinée: 1/30/09 except:

Alessio Michele SampieriUn notaio M. Deutz

2/06/09: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 12/19/08 except:

Il conte di Luna Giovanni PoleseUn vecchio zingaro Rocco Franzini

2/09/09: Pelléas et Mélisande: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Jacques Coini

Méliande Mary GardenPelléas Charles DalmorèsGolaud Hector Dufranne

Geneviève Jeanne Gerville-RéacheArkel Félix Vieuille

Yniold Emma TrentiniUn médicin Armand Crabbé


2/11/09: Salomè: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 2100: stage d. Jacques Coini

Salomè Mary GardenHerodes Charles Dalmorès

Herodias Augusta DoriaJochanaan Hector DufranneNarraboth Andrien Vallès

Der Page der Herodias Gina SeverinaErster Jude M. Sellav

Zweiter Jude Emilio VenturiniDritter Jude Vincenzo MontanariVierter Jude Francesco DaddiFünfter Jude M. Collin

Erster Nazarener Andrés de SegurolaZweiter Nazarener Ugo Malfatti

Erster Soldat Armand CrabbéZweiter Soldat Giuseppe de Grazia

Ein Coppadocier Nicolo FossettaEine Sklave Sybil Tancredi


2/13/09: Faust: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 1400: stage m. Luigi Albertieri

Le docteur Faust Florencio ConstantinoMéphistophélès Vittorio Arimondi

Marguerite Lina CavalieriValentin Giovanni Polese

Siébel Helene KoèllingDame Marthe Schwertlein Maria Avezza

Wa gner Michele Sampierimaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

94

2/13/09: Aida: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)

Il re d’Egitto Michele SampieriAmneris Augusta Doria

Aida Adelina AgostinelliRadamès Giovanni Zenatello

Ramfis Giuseppe de GraziaAmonasro Mario Sammarco

Un messaggero Vincenzo MontanariUna sacerdotessa unknownmaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani


Hermann Robert BlassTannhäuser Carl Burrian

Wolfram von Eschenbach Otto Goritz Fritz Feinhals

Walter von der Vogelweide Albert ReissBiterolf Adolph Mühlmann

Heinrich der Schreiber Julius BayerReinmar von Zweter Frederick Gunther

Elisabeth Berta MorenaVenus Olive Fremstad

Ein Hirtenknabe Lenora SparkesPa g e Lillia SnellingPa g e Lenora SparkesPa g e Rosina van DyckPa g e Henriette Wakefield


Gina TorrianiPierina Bongiovanni

Miss Gast

2/16/09: Salomè: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein): 2/11/092/18/09: Manon: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Manon Geraldine FarrarLe chevalier des Grieux Carl Jörn Enrico Caruso

Lescaut Antonio ScottiLe comte des Grieux Jean Noté

Guillot de Morfontaine Angelo Badà Albert Reiss

De Brétigny Bernard BéguéPoussette Lenora Sparkes

Javotte Rosina van DyckRosette Marie Mattfeld

L’hôtelier Enzo BozzanoPremier garde Eduardo Cibelli

Deuxième garde Edoardo MissianoLa servante Antoinette le Grand Isabelle L’Huillier


95

2/18/09: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 12/01/08 except:

Rigoletto Maurice RenaudIl conte di Monterone Michele Sampieri

Matteo Borsa Ugo MalfattiGiovanna Maria Avezza

Il cavaliere Marullo unknownIl conte di Ceprano unknown


2/20/09: Aida: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), matinée: 2/13/09 except:

Il re d’Egitto Giuseppe de GraziaRamfis Vittorio Arimondi

2/20/09: La bohème: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 12/17/08 except:

Mimì Maria LabiaRudolfo Florencio Constantino

Schaunard Charles GilibertColline Vittorio ArimondiMusetta Alice Zeppilli

Parpignol unknown

2/22/09: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 12/19/08 except:

Il conte di Luna Giovanni PoleseAzucena Jeanne Gerville-Réache

Ines Minnie EgenerRuiz Ugo Malfatti

Un messaggero unknown


Cio-Cio-San Geraldine FarrarB. F. Pinkerton Rinaldo Grassi

Suzuki Rita ForniaSharpless Antonio Scotti

Goro Angelo BadàIl principe Yamadori Concetto Paterna

Lo zio Yakusidé Luigi MorandiLo zio Bonzo Adolph Mühlmann

Il commissario imperiale Bernard BéguéKate Pinkerton Helen Mapleson Lucille Lawrence

L’ufficiale del registro Paolo AnanianLa madre di Cio-cio-san Paula Wöhning

La cugina Marie MattfeldLa zia Henriette Wakefield


2/23/09: Otello: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein): 1/14/09 except:

Ja go Mario SammarcoMontàno Michele Sampieri

Emilia Adele Ponzano

96

2/25/09: Prodaná neveˇsta(German): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Marenka Emmy DestinnJeník Carl JörnVasek Albert ReissKezal Adamo Didur

Ludmila Marie MattfeldKrusina Adolph Mühlmann

Háta Henriette WakefieldTobias Otto Goritz

Circus Barker Julius BayerEsmeralda Isabelle L’Huillier

Indian Ludwig Burgstallermaestro direttore Gustav Mahler

Gina TorrianiMiss Gast

Helene PechfelderFanny BourgeauHelen WeidlichOttokar Bartik


Palémon Giuseppe de Graziamaestro direttore Marcel Charlier

2/27/09: Tosca: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), matinée: 11/21/08 except:

Mario Cavaradossi Giuseppe TaccaniIl barone Scarpia Maurice RenaudCesare Angelotti Fernando Gianoli-Galletti

Il sagrestano Charles GilibertSpoletta M. Tronconi

2/27/09: Crispino e la comare: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 1/23/09Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company)

Santuzza Jeanne EspinasseLola Adele Ponzano

Turiddu Angelo ParolaAlfio Armand Crabbé

Lucia Gina Severinamaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

3/01/09: Salomè: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 2100: 2/11/09

97

3/02/09: Don Pasquale: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, NY): stage director Jules Speck

Don Pasquale Concetto Paterna Giuseppe Campanari

Ernesto Rinaldo GrassiDottor Malatesta Antonio Scotti

Norina Bernice de PasqualiUn notaio (Carlotto) Angelo Badà



Canio Enrico CarusoNedda Bernice de Pasquali Emmy Destinn

Malatesta Antonio ScottiTonio Pasquale AmatoBeppe Angelo BadàSilvio Eduardo Cibelli


3/02/09: Aida: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein): 2/13/09 except:

Ramfis Vittorio ArimondiAmonasro Giovanni Polese

3/04/09: Das Rheingold: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): stage directorAnton Schertel; set design Burghart & Co.

Wotan Walter SoomerDonner Herbert Waterous

Fr oh Carl JörnLoge Carl Burrian

Alberich Otto GoritzMime Albert ReissFasolt Adolph MühlmannFafner Robert BlassFricka Olive FremstadFr eia Isabelle L’HuillierErda Louise Homer

Wo glinde Lenora SparkesWellgunde Rita ForniaFloßhilde Maria Ranzow


3/04/09: La sonnambula: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 1/30/09 except:

Il conte Rodolfo Andrés de SegurolaAlessio Michele Sampieri

Un notaio M. Deutz

Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company)

Santuzza Adelina AgostinelliLola Mme.Mariska-Aldrich


Lucia Maria Avezzamaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

98

3/06/09: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), matinée:11/26/08 except:

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodFlorencio ConstantinoLord Arturo Buclaw Ugo MalfattiRaimondo Bidebent Giuseppe de Grazia

Alisa Minnie Egener

3/06/09: Un ballo in maschera: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein)

Riccardo Giovanni ZenatelloRenato Mario SammarcoAmelia Adelina AgostinelliUlrica Mme.Mariska-AldrichOscar Emma Trentini

Silvano Michele SampieriSamuel Vittorio Arimondi

Tom Giuseppe de GraziaUn giudice Ugo Malfatti


3/09/09: Un ballo in maschera: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 3/06/093/11/09: Die Walküre: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Siegmund Georg AnthesHunding Allen Hinckley

Wotan Walter SoomerSieglinde Berta Morena

Brünnhilde Johanna GadskiFricka Louise Homer Felice Kaskowska

Gerhilde Lenora SparkesOrtlinde Rosina van Dyck

Waltraute Louise HomerSchwertleite Paula Wöhning

Helmwige Rita ForniaSiegrune Elizabeth Clark

Grimgerde Matja von Niessen-StoneRoßweiße Clara Koch-Böhm


3/11/09: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.): 11/26/08 except:

Alisa Minnie Egener

3/13/09: Un ballo in maschera: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), matinée:3/06/09 except:

Silvano M. PierucciSamuel Giuseppe de Grazia

Tom Michele Sampieri

99

3/13/09: I puritani: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)

Elvira Luisa TetrazziniLord Arturo Talbo Florencio ConstantinoSir Riccardo Forth Giovanni Polese

Sir Giorgio Vittorio ArimondiLord Gualtiero Valton Michele SampieriSir Bruno Robertson M. Zaini

Enrichetta di Francia Maria Avezzamaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

3/16/09: Falstaff: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): stage director Jules Speck;set design Mario Sala, Angelo Parravicini; costume design Maison Chiappa

Sir John Falstaff Antonio ScottiMister Ford Giuseppe Campanari

Fenton Rinaldo GrassiDottor Cajus Angelo Badà

Bardolfo Albert ReissPistola Adamo Didur

Mistress Alice Ford Emmy Destinn Geraldine Farrar

Nannetta Frances AldaMistress Quickly Maria Gay

Mistress Meg Page Maria Ranzow Felice Kaskowska


3/16/09: Le jongleur de Notre Dame: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, OscarHammerstein): 12/03/08 except:

Boniface Charles GilibertUn loustic Giuseppe Cernusco

Un ivrogne Rocco FranziniUn chevalier Ugo Malfatti


3/18/09: Siegfried: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): stage director AntonSchertel; set design Impekoven & Co. Obronsky

Siegfried Carl BurrianMime Albert Reiss

Der Wanderer Walter SoomerAlberich Otto Goritz

Fafner Allen HinckleyErda Louise Homer

Brünnhilde Johanna GadskiStimme des WaldvogelsLenora Sparkes


100

3/18/09: Louise: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)


La mère Augusta DoriaLa père Félix Vieuille

La petite chiffonnière unknownLa glaneuse de charbonunknown

Le bricoleur Louis ZuroLa laitière Adele Ponzano

Le chiffonnier Fernando Gianoli-GallettiLe premier gardien de la paix M. Zaini

Le deuxième gardien de la paixVincenzo ReschiglianLe gavroche Emma Trentini

La balayeuse Gina SeverinaLe peintre Nicolo Fossetta

Le sculpteur Armand CrabbéLe chansonnier Vincenzo Reschiglian

Le premier philosophe Armand CrabbéLe jeune poète Francesco Daddi

Le deuxième philosopheunknownL’apprentie Charlotte EngelL’étudiant Vincenzo Montanari

Le rempailleur Beth KeenanLa marchande d’artichauts Lillian Hayes[Le marchand de carottes] Miss JohnstonLa marchande de mouronMr. Boyd

Blanche Adele PonzanoMarguerite Annie Laurie

Suzanne Helene KoèllingGertrude Maria AvezzaCamille Sybil Tancredi

Irma Alice ZeppilliÉlise Gina Severina

Madeleine Julie HumeLe marchand d’habits Francesco Daddi

La première Grace InmanLe pape des fous Emilio Venturinimaestro direttore Marcel Charlier

101

3/20/09: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 1400: 12/01/08 except:

Il duca di Mantova Angelo ParolaRigoletto Maurice Renaud

Gilda Luisa TetrazziniSparafucile Giuseppe de GraziaMaddalena Adele Ponzano

Il conte di Monterone Nicolo FossettaMatteo Borsa Ugo Malfatti

La contessa di Ceprano [Minnie Egener]Giovanna Maria Avezza

Il cavaliere Marullo Rocco FranziniIl conte di Ceprano Vincenzo Reschiglian

Pa g gio della duchessaMinnie Egenermaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

3/20/09: Faust: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein): 1/28/09 except:

Marguerite Adelina AgostinelliSiébel Helene Koèlling

Wa gner Vincenzo Reschiglian

3/23/09: Louise: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein): 12/01/08 except:

La père Charles GilibertLe deuxième gardien de la paixM. Giussani

Le rempailleur Alice GentleLa marchande d’artichauts Lillian Hayes

La marchande de mouronAtala Valliere


Siegfried Carl BurrianGunther Adolph Mühlmann

Hagen Allen HinckleyAlberich not performed

Brünnhilde Johanna GadskiGutrune Rita Fornia

Waltraute Louise HomerErste Norn not performed

Zweite Norn not performedDritte Norn not performed

Wo glinde Lenora SparkesWellgunde Henriette WakefieldFloßhilde Louise Homer


102

3/25/09: La navarraise(Massenet): Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein)

Anita Jeanne Gerville-RéacheAraquil Andrien VallèsGarrido Hector DufranneRemigio Félix VieuilleRamon Armand Crabbé

Bustamente Fernando Gianoli-Gallettimaestro direttore Marcel Charlier

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 12/05/08 except:

Nedda Maria LabiaSilvio Armand Crabbé

3/27/09: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein), hour: 1400

Il conte di Luna Giovanni PoleseLeonora Adelina AgostinelliAzucena Augusta DoriaManrico Giovanni Zenatello

Ferrando Giuseppe de GraziaInes Minnie EgenerRuiz Ugo Malfatti

Un vecchio zingaro Rocco FranziniUn messaggero Ugo Malfatti



Thaïs Jeanne Espinasse Mary Garden

Palémon Giuseppe de GraziaLe serviteur de Nicias Nicolo Fossetta

maestro direttore Marcel Charlier

3/30/09: Samson et Dalila: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 2000: 11/19/08except:

Un messager philistin Ugo Malfatti Vincenzo Montanari

4/01/09: Aida: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 2000: 2/13/09 except:

Il re d’Egitto [Michele Sampieri] Giuseppe de Grazia

Ramfis Andrés de SegurolaAmonasro Giovanni Polese

Un messaggero Ugo Malfatti Vincenzo Montanari


Boniface Charles GilibertUn loustic Giuseppe Cernusco

Un ivrogne Rocco FranziniUn chevalier Ugo Malfatti

103

4/03/09: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein)


Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodGiuseppe TaccaniLord Arturo Buclaw Vincenzo MontanariRaimondo Bidebent Michele Sampieri

Alisa Minnie EgenerNormanno Ugo Malfatti


5/03/09: Aida: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company)


Aida Eleanor ThierryRadamès Nunzio Bari

Ramfis G. GravinaAmonasro M. Secci

Un messaggero A. GuilianoUna sacerdotessa Mme.Zaradmaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

5/04/09: Carmen: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company)

Carmen Rosa Duce MerolaDon José Umberto ColombiniEscamillo G. Zara

Micaëla Virginia NovelliFr asquita Mme.ZaradMercédès Mme.Bossi

Zuniga A. OteriMoralès A. Frascona

Le Dancaïre A. FrasconaLe Remendado A. Guiliano


5/05/09: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company), matinée

Miss Lucia Mme.AlmeriSir Edgardo di RavenswoodM. Oddo

Lord Enrico Asthon G. ZaraRaimondo Bidebent A. OteriLord Arturo Buclaw A. Guiliano

Alisa Mme.BossiNormanno A. Frascona


5/05/09: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company)

Il conte di Luna M. SecciLeonora Virginia NovelliAzucena Georgiana StraussManrico Nunzio BariFerrando A. Oteri G. Gravina

Ines Mme.ZaradRuiz A. Guiliano


104

5/06/09: La traviata: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company)

Violetta Valéry Mme.AlmeriAlfredo Germont Umberto ColombiniGiorgio Germont G. Zara

Flora Bervoix Mme.ZaradIl barone Douphol A. Frascona

Il dottor Grenvil A. OteriAnnina Madalina Bossi

Gastone di Letorières A. GuilianoIl marchese d’Obigny M. Kaplan


5/07/09: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company)

Santuzza Rosa Duce MerolaLola Mme.Bossi

Turiddu Umberto ColombiniAlfio G. Zara

Lucia Mme.Zarad

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company)

Canio Umberto ColombiniNedda Virginia NovelliTonio M. SecciBeppe A. GuilianoSilvio G. Zara


5/08/09: Carmen: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company), matinée: 5/04/095/08/09: Faust: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company)

Le docteur Faust Umberto ColombiniMéphistophélès G. Gravina

Marguerite Eleanor ThierryValentin G. Zara

Siébel Georgiana StraussDame Marthe Schwertlein Mme.Bossi

Wa gner A. Frasconamaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

5/10/09: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company)

Il duca di Mantova Nunzio BariRigoletto M. Sacci

Gilda Mme.AlmeriSparafucile G. GravinaMaddalena Mme.Bossi

Il conte di Monterone A. OteriMatteo Borsa A. Guiliano

La contessa di Ceprano Mme.ZaradGiovanna Mme.Kaplan

Il cavaliere Marullo A. FrasconaIl conte di Ceprano M. Kaplan

Usciere di corte unknownPa g gio della duchessa Mme.Williams


105

5/11/09: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Opera Company): 5/07/09 except:

Lucia Mme.Kaplan

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company): 5/07/09 except:

Canio Nunzio Bari

5/12/09: La traviata: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company), matinée: 5/06/095/12/09: Aida: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company): 5/03/09 except:

Radamès M. Oddo

5/13/09: Fedora(Act I): Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company)

La principessa Fedora RomazovEleanor ThierryIl conte Loris Ipanov Umberto Colombini

La contessa Olga SukarevVirginia NovelliIl conte Giovanni de Siriex M. Secci

Dimitri Miss WilliamsDésiré A. Guiliano

Il barone Rouvel A. FrasconaCirillo G. GravinaBorov A. Frascona

Gretch A. OteriSergio M. Correnti

Un piccolo savoiardo Mme.Zaradmaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

John Curtis writes:Fedorawas to hav e been sung in its entirety, and alone, butMme. Therry was taken ill duringthe first act. She managed to finish the act but was unable to continue, hence the substitution of the Mascagniopera to fill out the evening.

Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Abramson Italian Opera Company)

Santuzza Virginia NovelliLola Mme.Bossi

Turiddu Umberto ColombiniAlfio G. Zara

Lucia Mme.Kaplanmaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

5/13/09: Princess Ida: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage manager J. Barry Colahan, III

King Hildebrand Charles F. GriffithPrince Hilarion G. Plantou Middleton

Cyril J. Lawson Weatherly, Jr.Florian Henry W. Doughten

King Gama Norman St. C. HalesPrince Arac Armitt Brown

Prince Guron John Clark SimsPrince Scynthius Joseph Patterson Sims

Princess Ida Mary Brooks ThompsonLady Psyche Bertha Pyle

Lady Blanche Margaret E. WalterMelissa Mrs. W. Yorke Stevenson

Sacharissa Dorothy FarnumChloe Mrs. Grenville F. Montgomery

Ada Emily S. Rulon-Millermaestro direttore Warren A. Hawley

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5/14/09: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Ivan Abramson Opera Company): 5/05/09 except:

Il conte di Luna G. ZaraManrico M. Oddo

Ferrando G. Gravina

5/14/09: Princess Ida: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/15/09: Faust: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Opera Company), matinée: 5/08/095/15/09: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Ivan Abramson Italian Grand Opera Company)

La gioconda Rosa Duce MerolaLaura Adorno Mme.Bossi

Alvise Badoero G. GravinaLa cieca Georgiana Strauss

Enzo Grimaldo Nunzio BariBarnaba M. Secci

Zuàne unknownUn cantore unknown

Isèpo unknownUn pilota unknown

Un monaco unknownmaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

5/15/09: Princess Ida: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/17/09: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (English Grand Opera Company, Faetkenheuer)

Cio-cio-san Adelaide NorwoodB. F. Pinkerton Thomas J. Conkey

Suzuki Ellen JamesSharpless Ottley Cranston

Goro Arthur Deanemaestro direttore BaronGustav E. Renfort

5/18/09: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (English Grand Opera Company)5/19/09: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (English Grand Opera Company), matinée5/19/09: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (English Grand Opera Company)5/20/09: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (English Grand Opera Company)5/21/09: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (English Grand Opera Company)

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5/21/09: Hoshi-San(Wassili Leps, book by John Luther Long) (English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (PhiladelphiaOperatic Society): stage director Harry Lewellyn; assistant stage director Arthur E. Keighley; stagemanager William J. Parker; manager of orchestra C. Stanley Mackey; master of properties JohnLamond; mistress of wardrobeMrs. John Curtis; director John Curtis; costumes Van Horn & Son;wigs and make-up A. M. Buch & Co.

Hoshi-San Isabel R. BuchananJutsuna Marie Zeckwer

Ji-Saburo Frederic C. FreemantelThe nio Horace R. HoodDaibo William J. Baird

Kazide H. S. MacWhorterKato Charles J. Shuttleworth

Jurazo W. Garrett RodgersThe ambassador Thomas Mohr

Hondo John Lamondmaestro direttore Wassili Leps

Cavalleria rusticana(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society): with balletintroduced after "Drinking song" to music of Arditi’sForosettatarantelle; ballet master Albert W.Newman

Santuzza Nancis E. FranceLola Lola Chalfont

Turiddu George DundasAlfio Carl H. Robinson

Lucia Rebecca M. Conwaymaestro direttore Siegfried Behrensmaestro del coro Stanley Muschamp

5/22/09: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (English Grand Opera Company), matinée5/22/09: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (English Grand Opera Company)

10/20/09: Mignon(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society): stage director John Curtis

Mignon Elma Carey JohnsonWilhelm Meister Paul Volkmann

Lothario Frank M. ConlyPhiline Elsie North Schuyler

Frédéric Beatrice WaldenLaërte Horace R. HoodJarna Charles D. Cuzner


11/09/09: Aida: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): stage director Jules Speck;set design Mario Sala, Angelo Parravicini; costume design Maison Chiappa



Ramfis Allen HinckleyAmonasro Pasquale Amato

Un messaggero Pietro AudisioUna sacerdotessa Lenora Sparkesmaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini

Gina Torriani

108

11/09/09: Aida (Opening night of the season): Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, OscarHammerstein): stage director Jacques Coini

Il re d’Egitto Giuseppe de GraziaAmneris Marguerite d’Alvarez

Aida Mariette MazarinRadamès Nicola Zerola

Ramfis Henri ScottAmonasro Giovanni Polese

Un messaggero Emilio VenturiniUna sacerdotessa Minnie Egenermaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

premiere danseuse etoileMlle. Galimbertipremieres Mlles. Diplokowska, Faccioli

11/11/09: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée: stagedirector Jules Speck; set design Burghart & Co.; costume design Blaschke & Cie

Cio-Cio-San Geraldine FarrarB. F. Pinkerton Riccardo Martin


Goro Albert Reiss Angelo Badà

Il principe Yamadori Fernando Gianoli-Galletti Giuseppe Tecchi

Lo zio Yakusidé Georges Bourgeois Fernando Gianoli-Galletti

Lo zio Bonzo Adolph MühlmannIl commissario imperiale Bernard Bégué

Kate Pinkerton Helen Maplesonmaestro direttore Vittorio Podesti

11/11/09: Hérodiade(Massenet): Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Hammerstein),hour: 2000: stage director Jacques Coini

Jean Charles DalmorèsHérode Maurice Renaud

Phanuel Jean VallierVitellius Armand Crabbé

Un grand prêtre Constantin NicolayUne voix Emilio Venturini

Salomé Lina CavalieriHérodiade Jeanne Gerville-Réache

Une jeune babylonienneMinnie Egenermaestro direttore Carlo Nicosia

premiere danseuse etoile:Mlle. Galimbertipremieres Mlles. Diplokowska, Faccioli

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11/13/09: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Hammerstein),matinée: stage director Jacques Coini


Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodJohn McCormackLord Arturo Buclaw Domenico RussoRaimondo Bidebent Henri Scott

Alisa Minnie EgenerNormanno Giuseppe de Grazia


11/13/09: Carmen: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Hammerstein), hour: 2000:stage director Jacques Coini

Carmen Marguerite SylvaDon José Federico CarasaEscamillo Henry Laskin

Micaëla Mme.Walter-VillaFr asquita Mlle. Tati-LangoMercédès Alice Gentle

Zuniga Giuseppe de GraziaMoralès Nicolo Fossetta

Le Dancaïre Constantin NicolayLe Remendado Pierre Leroux

maestro direttore Carlo Nicosia

11/16/09: La bohème: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): stage director JulesSpeck; costume design Blaschke & Cie

Mimì Wendy NielsenRodolfo Alessandro Bonci

Marcello Pasquale AmatoSchaunard Adamo Didur

Colline Giulio RossiBenoît Paolo Ananian

Alcindoro Fernando Gianoli-GallettiMusetta Bella Alten

Parpignol Giuseppe TecchiSergente dei doganieri Giuseppe Cottino

Un ufficiale Giuseppe Tecchimaestro direttore Vittorio Podesti

11/16/09: Hérodiade: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 2000: 11/11/09 except:

Jean Jean DuffaultUn grand prêtre Giuseppe de Grazia

110

11/17/09: La fille de Madame Angot(Charles Lecocq): Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia OperaCompany, Oscar Hammerstein), hour: 2000: stage director Jacques Coini

Clairette Angot Henriette DelormesMademoiselle Lange Mlle. Nolba

Amarante Rachel LayaPomponnet Alfred DambrineAnge Pitou David Devries

Larivaudière Elizabeth BlondelTrénitz Pierre Leroux

Louchard Constantin NicolayBabet Mlle. MerlyCadet M. Moyroud

Mme. Herbelin Mme.GovainMlle. Delaunay Mlle. Tati-Lango

Mme. Ducoudray Suzanne DumesnilCydalyse Elizabeth Blondel

maestro direttore Alfred Haakman


Hermann Allen HinckleyTannhäuser Carl Burrian

Venus Jane NoriaWalter von der Vogelweide Glenn Hall


Reinmar von Zweter Frederick GuntherWolfram von EschenbachClarence Whitehill

Elisabeth Johanna GadskiEin Hirtenknabe Lenora Sparkes

Pa g e Anna CasePa g e Lillia SnellingPa g e Lenora SparkesPa g e Henriette Wakefield


unknown

11/18/09: Aida: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein), hour: 2000: 11/09/0911/19/09: La mascotte(Edmond Audran): Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar

Hammerstein), hour: 2000: stage manager Louis P. Verande

Laurent XVII M. BlondelPippo Michel Dufour

Fritellini Andrien VallèsRocco Alfred Dambrine

Bettina Henriette DelormesFiametta Mlle. NolbaMatheo M. Moyroud


111

11/20/09: Sapho(Massenet): Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein), matinée

Fanny Legrand Mary GardenDivonne Marguerite d’Alvarez

Irène Mme.Walter-VillaJean Gaussin Charles Dalmorès

Caoudal Hector DufranneCésaire Gaussin Gustave Huberdeau

La borderie Pierre LerouxLe patron du restaurant Gaston Villa


11/20/09: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Jacques Coini

Santuzza Mariette MazarinLola Maria Duchène

Turiddu Federico CarasaAlfio Giovanni Polese

Lucia Gina Severinamaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): stage director Jacques Coini

Canio Giovanni ZenatelloNedda Marguerite SylvaTonio Giovanni PoleseBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Armand Crabbé


11/22/09: La mascotte: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 11/19/09 except:

Pippo Michel Dufour

11/23/09: Otello: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Otello Leo SlezakJago Pasquale Amato Antonio Scotti

Cassio Angelo BadàRoderigo Pietro AudisioLodovico Herbert Witherspoon Allen Hinckley

Montàno Vincenzo ReschiglianUn araldo Bernard Bégué

Desdemona Frances AldaEmilia Florence Wickham


11/23/09: Sapho: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein): 11/20/09

112

11/25/09: Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 11/20/09 except:

Canio Nicola ZerolaNedda Emma Trentini Marguerite Sylva

Beppe Ugo Malfatti

La figlia del reg gimento(Italian): Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.): director Jacques Coini

Maria Luisa TetrazziniTonio John McCormack

La marchesa di BerkenfieldMaria DuchèneOrtensio Nicolo FossettaSulpizio Charles Gilibert

Un caporale unknownLa duchessa di Krakentorp unknown

Un maggiordomo Constantin Nicolaymaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

11/26/09: Les dragons de villars(Aimé Maillart): Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, OscarHammerstein), hour: 2000: stage director Jacques Coini

Rose Friquet Mme.Walter-Villa Maria Duchène

Georgette Suzanne DumesnilSylvain David DevriesBelamy Michel Dufour

Thibault Alfred DambrineA clergyman Constantin Nicolay

Lieutenant M. RenierA dra goon M. Moyroud


11/27/09: Carmen: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 1400: 11/13/09 except:

Carmen Mariette MazarinDon José Georges LucasEscamillo Armand Crabbé

Micaëla Lalla MirandaLe Dancaïre Pierre Leroux Charles Gilibert

Le Remendado Jean de Keyser Pierre Leroux

11/27/09: Aida: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein): 11/09/09

Amneris Augusta DoriaAida Alice Baron

Radamès Giovanni Zenatello

11/30/09: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

La gioconda Emmy DestinnEnzo Grimaldo Enrico CarusoLaura Adorno Guerrina Fabbri

Barnaba Pasquale AmatoAlvise Badoero Andrés de Segurola

La cieca Anna MeitschikZuàne Bernard BéguéIsèpo Giuseppe Tecchi

Un cantore Edoardo Missianomaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini

113

11/30/09: Carmen: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein): 11/13/09 except:

Carmen Lina CavalieriDon José Giovanni ZenatelloEscamillo Armand Crabbé

Micaëla Lalla MirandaFr asquita Emma Trentini

12/02/09: Prodaná neveˇsta(German): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Marenka Emmy DestinnJeník Carl JörnVasek Albert ReissKezal Adamo Didur

Ludmila Marie MattfeldKrusina Herbert Witherspoon

Háta Henriette WakefieldTobias Adolph Mühlmann

Circus Barker Julius BayerEsmeralda Alma Gluck

Indian Ludwig Burgstallermaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

Gina TorrianiHelene PechfelderFanny BourgeauCamilla GablerHelen WeidlichOttokar Bartik

12/02/09: Sapho: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein): 11/20/09 except:

Divonne Berthe Soyer

12/04/09: La fille di régiment: Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), matinée: 11/25/09 except:

Hortensius Constantin Nicolay

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 11/20/09 except:

Canio Federico CarasaNedda Emma TrentiniSilvio Nicolo Fossetta

12/04/09: Il trovatore: Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein): stage director Jacques Coini

Il conte di Luna Mario SammarcoLeonora Eva Grippon Mariette Mazarin

Azucena Jeanne Gerville-RéacheManrico Nicola Zerola

Ferrando Giuseppe de GraziaInes Minnie EgenerRuiz Emilio Venturini

Un vecchio zingaro unknownmaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

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Floria Tosca Olive FremstadMario Cavaradossi Alessandro Bonci Riccardo Martin

Il barone Scarpia Antonio ScottiCesare Angelotti Paolo Ananian

Il sagrestano Fernando Gianoli-GallettiSpoletta Leo Devaux Angelo Badà

Sciarrone Bernard BéguéUn pastore Lillia Snelling

Un carceriere Edoardo Missianomaestro direttore Egisto Tango

12/07/09: La traviata: Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)

Violetta Valéry Luisa TetrazziniAlfredo Germont John McCormackGiorgio Germont Mario Sammarco

Flora Bervoix Alice GentleIl barone Douphol Nicolo Fossetta

Il dottor Grenvil Giuseppe de GraziaAnnina Minnie Egener

Gastone di Letorières Emilio VenturiniIl marchese d’Obigny M. Zano

Giuseppe M. Pieruccimaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

12/09/09: Le jongleur de Notre Dame: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, OscarHammerstein), hour: 2000: stage director Jacques Coini

Jean Mary GardenBoniface Charles GilibertLe prieur Hector Dufranne

Un moine sculpteur Gustave HuberdeauUn moine peintre Henry Laskin

Un moine musicien Armand CrabbéUn moine poète Oliver Lucas

Un loustic unknownUn ivrogne unknown

Un chevalier unknownmaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

12/11/09: Tosca: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein), matinée

Floria Tosca Carmen MelisMario Cavaradossi Federico Carasa


Il sagrestano Constantin NicolaySpoletta Emilio Venturini

Sciarrone Nicolo FossettaUn pastore Minnie Egener

Un carceriere unknownmaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

12/11/09: Hérodiade: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 11/11/09 except:

Jean Jean Duffault

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Heinrich der Vogler Allen HinckleyLohengrin Carl Jörn

Elsa von Brabant Olive FremstadFriedrich von Telramund Otto Goritz

Ortrud Florence WickhamDer Heerrufer des Königs Adolph Mühlmann

Herzog Gottfried unknown

Vier brabantische Edlen

Wilhelm Otto

Glenn HallAnton LudwigMarcel Reiner

Vier Edelknaben

Anna Case

Elizabeth ClarkLillia SnellingLenora Sparkes


12/14/09: La fille di régiment: Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein): 11/25/09 except:

Hortensius Constantin Nicolay

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein): 11/20/09 except:

Canio Nicola ZerolaNedda Emma TrentiniTonio Mario SammarcoSilvio Nicolo Fossetta


Il conte di Luna Dinh GillyLeonora Lillian NordicaAzucena Marianne Flahaut Anna Meitschik

Manrico Leo SlezakFerrando Giulio Rossi

Ines Emma BorniggiaRuiz Giuseppe Tecchi

Un vecchio zingaro Aristide Baracchimaestro direttore Egisto Tango


Mario Cavaradossi Giovanni ZenatelloIl barone Scarpia Mario Sammarco

Il sagrestano Charles Gilibert

12/18/09: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), matinée: 12/04/09 except:

Il conte di Luna Giovanni PoleseLeonora Mariette MazarinAzucena Augusta Doria

Ferrando Constantin NicolayRuiz Ugo Malfatti

Un vecchio zingaro Rocco Franzini

12/18/09: Le jongleur de Notre Dame: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.): 12/09/09 except:

Un moine peintre Henri Scott

116

12/21/09: Werther: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Werther Edmond ClémentCharlotte Geraldine Farrar

Sophie Alma GluckAlbert Henri Dutilloy

Le bailli Antonio Pini-CorsiJohann Georges Bourgeois

Schmidt Leo DevauxKäthchen Miss Duclef

Brühlmann Walter KochFritz Anna CaseMax Lillia Snelling

Hans Lucette de LievinKarl Ruth Smith

Gretel Henriette MossClara Anne Smith

maestro direttore Egisto Tango

12/21/09: Samson et Dalila: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein):stage director Jacques Coini



Un vieillard hébreu Jean VallierUn messager philistin Gaston Villa

Premier Philistin M. DaucheDeuxième Philistin Ugo Malfatti


12/23/09: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein), hour: 2000:stage director Jacques Coini

Il conte di Luna Mario SammarcoLeonora Mariette MazarinAzucena Marguerite d’AlvarezManrico Nicola Zerola

Ferrando Giuseppe de GraziaInes Minnie EgenerRuiz Ugo Malfatti

Un vecchio zingaro Rocco FranziniUn messaggero Ugo Malfatti


12/25/09: Faust: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein), matinée:stage director Jacques Coini

Le docteur Faust Jean DuffaultMéphistophélès Henry Laskin

Marguerite Alice BaronValentin Gaston Villa

Siébel Minnie EgenerDame Marthe Schwertlein Maria Duchène

Wa gner Rocco Franzinimaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

117

12/25/09: Aida: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein): 11/09/09 except:

Il re d’Egitto Henry LaskinAmneris Augusta Doria

Radamès Giovanni ZenatelloRamfis Jean Vallier

Amonasro Enrico PignataroUn messaggero Ugo Malfatti

12/28/09: Il maestro di cappella(Ferdinand Paër:Le maître de chapelle), Italian: Philadelphia, Academy of Music(Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Barnabé Antonio Pini-CorsiGertrude Alma Gluck

Benetto Angelo Badàmaestro direttore Tanara

Slavic Character DanceThamara de Swirsky

not performedIvy Craske

maestro direttore Max Bendix

Russian DanceThamara de Swirsky



Mazurkamaestro direttore Max Bendix

Russian VariationsThamara de Swirsky



PagliacciCanio Enrico CarusoNedda Jane Noria

Barnabé Antonio Pini-CorsiTonio Pasquale AmatoBeppe Angelo BadàSilvio Vincenzo Reschiglian Dinh Gilly



Il barone Scarpia Mario SammarcoUn pastore Barbara Schaesser

118

12/30/09: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Santuzza Emmy DestinnLola Florence Wickham

Turiddu Riccardo MartinAlfio Dinh Gilly

Lucia Marie Mattfeldmaestro direttore Vittorio Podesti

Hänsel und Gretel: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Hänsel Marie MattfeldGretel Bella Alten

Die Knusperhexe Anna MeitschikGertrud Florence Wickham

Peter Otto GoritzSandmännchen Lillia SnellingTaumännchen Lenora Sparkes


12/30/09: Samson et Dalila: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 2000: 12/21/09except:

Un messager philistin Emilio VenturiniPremier Philistin Ugo Malfatti

Deuxième Philistin Michele Sampieri

12/31/09: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Jacques Coini

Hoffmann Georges LucasNicklausse Alice Gentle

Emma TrentiniOlympiaAntonia

Giulietta Alice BaronLindorf Giuseppe de Grazia

Maurice Renaud

CoppéliusDr. MiracleDapertutto

Pierre Leroux

CochenilleFr antz

PitichinaccioVoix Maria Duchène

Spalanzani Constantin NicolayHermann Nicolo FossettaSchlémil Giuseppe de Grazia

Nathanaël Emilio VenturiniLuther Rocco Franzini

Crespel Gaston Villamaestro direttore Marcel Charlier

119

19101/01/10: Aida: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein), hour: 1400: 11/09/09

Il re d’Egitto Henry Laskin Giuseppe de Grazia

Amneris Augusta DoriaAida Alice Baron Mariette Mazarin

Un messaggero Ugo Malfatti

1/01/10: Sapho: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein): 11/20/09 except:

Divonne Berthe Soyer


Isolde Olive Fremstad Johanna Gadski

Tristan Carl BurrianBrangäne Louise HomerKurwenal Pasquale Amato


Ein junger Seemann Glenn HallEin Hirt Albert Reiss

Der Steuermann Julius Bayermaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini

1/04/10: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein): 12/04/09 except:

Il conte di Luna Giovanni PoleseLeonora Mariette MazarinAzucena Augusta Doria

Ruiz Ugo Malfatti

1/06/10: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 2000: 11/13/09except:

Lord Enrico Asthon Mario SammarcoLord Arturo Buclaw Emilio VenturiniRaimondo Bidebent Ugo Malfatti Giuseppe de Grazia

Alisa Gina Severinamaestro direttore Oscar Anselmi Giuseppe Sturani

1/08/10: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 1400: stage d. Jacques Coini

Il duca di Mantova John McCormackRigoletto Giovanni Polese

Gilda Luisa TetrazziniSparafucile Gustave HuberdeauMaddalena Berthe Soyer

Il conte di Monterone Charles GilibertMatteo Borsa M. Zaini


Il cavaliere Marullo Ugo MalfattiIl conte di Ceprano Nicolo Fossetta


120

1/08/10: Samson et Dalila: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 2000: 12/21/09except:

Un messager philistin Emilio VenturiniPremier Philistin Ugo Malfatti

Deuxième Philistin Michele Sampieri

1/11/10: Manon: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Manon Geraldine FarrarLe chevalier des Grieux Carl Jörn

Lescaut Henri DutilloyLe comte des Grieux Andrés de Segurola

Guillot de Morfontaine Angelo Badà Leo Devaux

De Brétigny Vincenzo Reschiglian Georges Regis

Poussette Christine HelianeJavotte Marianne Dubois Rosina van Dyck

Rosette Marie Mattfeld Henriette Wakefield

Premier garde Aristide BaracchiDeuxième garde Jean Minot Vincenzo Reschiglian

La servante Lucette de Lievinmaestro direttore Vittorio Podesti

1/11/10: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein)

Santuzza Carmen MelisLola Alice Gentle

Turiddu Georges LucasAlfio Armand Crabbé

Lucia Gina Severinamaestro direttore Oscar Anselmi

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)

Canio Nicola ZerolaNedda Lina CavalieriTonio Giovanni PoleseBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Armand Crabbé

maestro direttore Oscar Anselmi

1/13/10: Carmen: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 2000

Carmen Mariette MazarinDon José Georges LucasEscamillo Hector Dufranne

Micaëla Mme.Walter-VillaFr asquita Mlle. Tati-LangoMercédès Maria Duchène

Zuniga Michele Sampieri Gustave Huberdeau

Moralès Gaston VillaLe Dancaïre Constantin Nicolay

Le Remendado Francesco Daddimaestro direttore Henriquez de la Fuente

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Boniface Hector DufranneLe prieur Gustave Huberdeau

Un moine sculpteur M. DuvernoisUn moine poète not performed

1/15/10: La bohème: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 2000: stage Jacques Coini

Mimì Carmen MelisRodolfo John McCormack

Marcello Giovanni PoleseSchaunard Nicolo Fossetta

Colline Gustave HuberdeauBenoît Constantin Nicolay Francesco Daddi

Alcindoro Francesco DaddiMusetta Emma Trentini

Parpignol M. PierucciSergente dei doganieri Nicolo Fossetta

Un ufficiale Louis Zuromaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

1/18/10: Zar und Zimmermann(Lortzing): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Peter I, Zar von Rußland John ForsellPeter Iwanow Albert Reiss

Van Bett, Bürgermeister von SaardamOtto GoritzMarie Bella Alten

Witwe Browe Marie MattfeldMarquis von Châteauneuf Carl Jörn

Admiral Lefort Adolph MühlmannLord Syndham Robert Blass

Offizer Julius BayerCantor unknown


unknown

122

1/18/10: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, OscarHammerstein), hour: 2000: stage director Jacques Coini; stage manager Louis Verande, GeorgeEngel, Frank Rigo; assistant stage manager William L. Axt; master machinist Richard Lloyd; masterof properties P. Smith; chief electrician James Froelich; scenic department Julius F. Dowe; costumerN. Lanzilotti; wigs Hauswirth & Zauder; transportantion manager A. Y. Strauss; assistanttransportation master Lewis E. Green


Olympia Emma TrentiniAntonia Emma Trentini

Giulietta Lina CavalieriLindorf Giuseppe de Grazia Armand Crabbé

Coppélius Maurice RenaudDr. Miracle Maurice RenaudDapertutto Maurice RenaudCochenille Pierre Leroux Francesco Daddi

Frantz Pierre Leroux Nicolo Fossetta

Pitichinaccio Pierre Leroux Francesco Daddi

Voix Maria DuchèneSpalanzani Constantin Nicolay Charles Gilibert

Hermann Nicolo FossettaSchlémil Giuseppe de Grazia Armand Crabbé

Nathanaël Emilio VenturiniLuther Rocco FranziniCrespel Gaston Villa Charles Gilibert

maestro direttore Carlo Nicosiamaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti

1/20/10: Faust: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein), hour: 2000

Le docteur Faust Charles DalmorèsMéphistophélès Gustave Huberdeau

Marguerite Mary GardenValentin Hector Dufranne

Siébel Alice GentleDame Marthe Schwertlein Maria Duchène

Wa gner Gaston Villamaestro direttore Carlo Nicosia

1/22/10: Grisélidis (Jules Massenet): Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, OscarHammerstein), hour: 1400: stage director Jacques Coini

Grisélidis Mary GardenFiamina Mme.Walter-VillaBertrade Maria Duchène

Le marquis Hector DufranneAlain Charles Dalmorès

Le diable Gustave HuberdeauLe prieur Gaston Villa

Gondebaud Henri Scottmaestro direttore Carlo Nicosia

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1/22/10: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 2000


Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodFederico CarasaLord Arturo Buclaw Emilio VenturiniRaimondo Bidebent Henri Scott

Alisa Gina SeverinaNormanno Ugo Malfatti


1/25/10: La fille de Madame Angot(Charles Lecocq): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Co., NY)

Clairette Angot Frances AldaPomponnet Henri Dutilloy

Mademoiselle Lange Jeanne MaubourgAnge Pitou Edmond Clément

Larivaudière Antonio Pini-CorsiButeux Paolo AnanianCadet Giulio Rossi

Guillaume Bernard BéguéJavotte Marie Dutilloy

Thérèse Maria CabanierAmarante Cecile Roma

Babet Christine HelianeLouchard Georges Bourgeois

Mlle. Delaunay Marie DutilloyTrénitz Leo Devaux

Hersilie Lucette de LievinUn officier Vincenzo Reschiglian

Un uncroyable Mr. Rouvroymaestro direttore Egisto Tango

Gina TorrianiGiuseppe Bonfiglio

1/25/10: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)


Nicias Georges LucasPalémon Henri ScottCrobyle Emma Trentini

Maria DuchèneMyrtaleAlbine

Le serviteur de Nicias Nicolo Fossettamaestro direttore Carlo Nicosia

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1/26/10: Cavalleria rusticana(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society): stage directorEdward S. Grant; ballet master Albert W. Newman; assistant musical director Wassill Leps; generalstage director Edward S. Grant; assistant stage director A. W. Keighley; stage manager W. J. Parker;master of properties John Lamond; mistress of wardrobeMrs. John Curtis; costumes Van Horn &Son; wigs and make-up A. M. Buch & Co.; director John Curtis

Santuzza Nancis E. FranceLola Lola Chalfont

Turiddu George DundasAlfio Louis Kreidler

Lucia Rebecca M. Conwaymaestro direttore Siegfried Behrens

Pa gliacci(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society)

Canio Paul VolkmannNedda Harriette Woods BawdenTonio Samuel H. LipschutzBeppe Edward Shippen van LeerSilvio Horace R. Hood

maestro direttore Siegfried Behrensmaestro del coro Stanley Muschamp

1/27/10: La bohème: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein): 1/15/10 except:

Marcello Mario SammarcoSchaunard Charles Gilibert

Francesco DaddiBenoît

AlcindoroParpignol Rocco Franzini

Sergente dei doganieri unknownUn ufficiale unknown

1/29/10: Tosca: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), matinée: 12/11/09 except:

Mario Cavaradossi John McCormackIl barone Scarpia Mario Sammarco

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1/29/10: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 2000


Olympia Emma TrentiniAntonia Emma Trentini

Giulietta Lina CavalieriLindorf Giuseppe de Grazia

Coppélius Maurice RenaudDr. Miracle Maurice RenaudDapertutto Maurice RenaudCochenille Armand Crabbé Francesco Daddi

Frantz Armand Crabbé Francesco Daddi

Pitichinaccio Armand Crabbé Francesco Daddi

Voix Maria DuchèneSpalanzani Charles Gilibert

Hermann Nicolo FossettaSchlémil Giuseppe de Grazia

Nathanaël Emilio VenturiniLuther Louis Zuro

Crespel Charles Gilibertmaestro direttore Carlo Nicosia


Le docteur Faust Hermann JadlowkerMéphistophélès Adamo Didur

Marguerite Geraldine FarrarValentin Dinh Gilly

Siébel Christine HelianeDame Marthe Schwertlein Matja von Niessen-Stone

Wa gner Paolo Ananianmaestro direttore Vittorio Podesti

2/01/10: Faust: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein): 12/25/09 except:

Le docteur Faust Charles DalmorèsMéphistophélès Jean Vallier

Marguerite Mary GardenValentin Hector Dufranne

Siébel Emma TrentiniDame Marthe Schwertlein Minnie Egener


2/03/10: Hérodiade: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein): 11/11/09 except:

Jean Jean DuffaultVitellius Gaston Villa

Hérodiade Marguerite d’AlvarezUne jeune babylonienneCharlotte Carew

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2/05/10: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 1400: 1/29/10except:

Antonia Mme.Walter-VillaCochenille Armand Crabbé Pierre Leroux

Frantz Armand Crabbé Pierre Leroux

Pitichinaccio Armand Crabbé Pierre Leroux


2/05/10: Elektra (French): Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein),hour: 2030: stage director Jacques Coini

Elektra Mariette MazarinChrysothemis Alice BaronKlytämnestra Augusta Doria

Orest Gustave HuberdeauAegisth David Devries Jean Duffault

Der Pfleger des Orest Constantin NicolayDie Vertraute Mary Desmond

Die Schleppträgerin Miss JohnstonEin junger Diener Emilio Venturini

Ein alter Diener Henri ScottDie Aufseherin Mlle. Tati-Lango

1. Magd Alice Gentle2. Magd Gina Severina3. Magd Lalla Miranda4. Magd Mme.Walter-Villa5. Magd Maria Duchène

maestro direttore Henriquez de la Fuente


Siegmund Carl BurrianHunding Allen Hinckley

Wotan Walter SoomerSieglinde Olive Fremstad

Brünnhilde Johanna GadskiFricka Louise Homer

Gerhilde Lenora SparkesOrtlinde Rosina van Dyck

Waltraute Louise HomerSchwertleite Paula Wöhning

Helmwige Rita ForniaSiegrune Marie Mattfeld

Grimgerde Matja von Niessen-StoneRoßweiße Florence Wickham


2/08/10: Grisélidis: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 2000: 1/22/10

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2/10/10: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée

Il duca di Mantova Enrico CarusoRigoletto Pasquale Amato

Gilda Bernice de Pasquali Frances Alda

Sparafucile Andrés de SegurolaMaddalena Matja von Niessen-Stone

Giovanna Marie MattfeldIl conte di Monterone Giulio Rossi

Il cavaliere Marullo Paolo AnanianMatteo Borsa Pietro Audisio Angelo Badà

Il conte di Ceprano Vincenzo Reschiglian Bernard Bégué

La contessa di Ceprano Helen MaplesonPa g gio della duchessaEmma Borniggia


2/10/10: Elektra: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein), hour: 2000: 2/05/102/12/10: Samson et Dalila: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein), hour: 1400



Un vieillard hébreu Henry LaskinUn messager philistin Emilio Venturini Ugo Malfatti

Premier Philistin Ugo MalfattiDeuxième Philistin Michele Sampieri

maestro direttore Giuseppe Sturanimaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti

Grand corps de balletpremière etoile Mlle. Galimberti

2/12/10: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein), hour: 2030

Il duca di Mantova John McCormackRigoletto Mario Sammarco

Gilda Lalla MirandaSparafucile Henri ScottMaddalena Alice Gentle

Il conte di Monterone Charles GilibertMatteo Borsa Ugo Malfatti


Il cavaliere Marullo Nicolo FossettaIl conte di Ceprano M. Zaini


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2/15/10: Germania(Alberto Franchetti): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Giovanni Filippo Palm Giulio RossiFederico Loewe Enrico Caruso

Carlo Worms Pasquale AmatoCrisogono Antonio Pini-Corsi

Ricke Emmy DestinnJane Christine Heliane

Lene Armuth Marie MattfeldJebbel Lenora SparkesStapps Adamo Didur

Luigi Adolfo Guglielmo Lützow Paolo WulmanCarlo Teodoro Körner Lodovico Nepoti

La signora Hedvige Marie MattfeldPeters Aristide Baracchi

Il capo della polizia Georges BourgeoisUna donna Florence Wickham

Un giovanetto Rita Barillomaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini

2/15/10: Elektra: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein): 2/05/102/17/10: Grisélidis: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein): 1/22/102/19/10: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), matinée: 1/25/10 except:

Le serviteur de Nicias Constantin Nicolay

2/19/10: Otello: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), hour: 2000: stage d. Jacques Coini

Otello Nicola ZerolaJa go Giovanni Polese

Cassio Emilio VenturiniRoderigo Ugo MalfattiLodovico Jean VallierMontàno Michele Sampieri

Un araldo Rocco FranziniDesdemona Carmen Melis

Emilia Alice Gentlemaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

2/24/10: L’Attaque du Moulin(Alfred Bruneau): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, NewYork), matinée

Dominique Edmond ClémentMerlier Dinh Gilly

Le Capitaine Ennemi Andrés de SegurolaLa Sentinelle Georges RégisLe Tambour Paolo Ananian

Fr ançoise Jane NoriaMarcelline Marie DelnaGeneviève Christine Heliane

Le Capitaine Français Leo DevauxLe Sergent Bernard Bégué


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3/01/10: Fr a Diavolo (French): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Fr a Diavolo Edmond ClémentLord Cockburn Leo Devaux

Lady Pamela Jeanne MaubourgLorenzo Georges RégisMathéo Paolo AnanianZerline Bella Alten

Giacomo Georges BourgeoisBeppo Albert Reiss

Servant unknownmaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

unknown


Un moine poète Georges Lucasmaestro direttore Carlo Nicosia

3/03/10: La figlia del reg gimento(Italian): Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein), hour: 2000

Maria Luisa TetrazziniTonio John McCormack

La marchesa di BerkenfieldMaria DuchèneOrtensio Constantin NicolaySulpizio Charles Gilibert


La navarraise(French): Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): stage director Jacques Coini

Anita Jeanne Gerville-RéacheAraquil Georges LucasGarrido Gustave HuberdeauRemigio Michele SampieriRamon Armand Crabbé

Bustamente Constantin Nicolaymaestro direttore Carlo Nicosia

3/05/10: La navarraise: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 1400: 3/03/10Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.): stage director Jacques Coini

Canio Orville HarroldNedda Mme.Walter-VillaTonio Mario SammarcoBeppe Ugo MalfattiSilvio Armand Crabbé


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3/05/10: La traviata: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)

Violetta Valéry Luisa TetrazziniAlfredo Germont John McCormackGiorgio Germont Giovanni Polese

Flora Bervoix Minnie EgenerIl barone Douphol Michele Sampieri

Il dottor Grenvil Henri ScottAnnina Gina Severina

Gastone di Letorières Emilio VenturiniIl marchese d’Obigny Rocco Franzini

Giuseppe M. Pieruccimaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

3/08/10: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Amfortas Clarence WhitehillTiturel Herbert Witherspoon

Gurnemanz Robert BlassParsifal Carl Jörn

Klingsor Otto GoritzKundry Olive Fremstad

Erster Gralsritter Julius BayerZweiter Gralsritter Adolph Mühlmann

Altstimme Florence WickhamErster Knappe Lenora Sparkes

Zweiter Knappe Henriette WakefieldDritter Knappe Albert ReissVierter Knappe Willy Harden

Zaubermädchen

Rita Fornia

Alma GluckMarie MattfeldLenora SparkesRosina van DyckHenriette Wakefield


3/08/10: La navarraise: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co.), matinée: 3/03/10Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company): 3/05/10 except:

Tonio Giovanni Polese




Ramfis Allen HinckleyAmonasro Pasquale Amato

Un messaggero Angelo BadàUna sacerdotessa Alma Gluckmaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini

Gina Torriani

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Cassio Domenico RussoUn araldo M. Zaini

3/12/10: Hérodiade: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein), hour: 1400

Jean Georges LucasHérode Maurice Renaud

Phanuel Jean VallierVitellius Gaston Villa Michel Dufour


Salomé Mariette MazarinHérodiade Jeanne Gerville-Réache

Une jeune babylonienneCharlotte Carewmaestro direttore Carlo Nicosia

première danseuse etoileMlle. Galimberti

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3/12/10: Louise: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein), hour: 2000


La mère Augusta DoriaLa père Hector Dufranne

La petite chiffonnière Annie RiversLa glaneuse de charbonunknown

La plieuse unknownLe bricoleur Louis Zuro

La laitière Maria Duchène Alice Gentle

Le chiffonnier Constantin NicolayLe premier gardien de la paix M. Dauche

Le deuxième gardien de la paixEtienne ContessoLe gavroche Suzanne Dumesnil

La balayeuse unknownLe peintre Nicolo Fossetta

Le sculpteur unknownLe chansonnier M. Nemo

Le premier philosophe Nicolo Fossetta Armand Crabbé

Le jeune poète unknownLe deuxième philosopheunknown

L’apprentie Charlotte Engel Suzanne Dumesnil

L’étudiant unknownLe rempailleur Beth Keenan

La marchande d’artichauts Lillian Hayes[Le marchand de carottes] Miss CusterLa marchande de mouronCharlotte Carew

Blanche Mary DesmondMarguerite Annie Laurie

Suzanne Mlle. Tati-LangoGertrude Maria Duchène Alice Gentle

Camille Regina VicarinoIrma Mme.Walter-VillaÉlise Gina Severina

Madeleine Denise MorrisLe marchand d’habits Francesco Daddi

La première Miss JohnstonLe pape des fous Emilio Venturinimaestro direttore Carlo Nicosia


Ja go Mario SammarcoUn araldo M. Zaini

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3/16/10: Carmen: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)

Carmen Mariette MazarinDon José David DevriesEscamillo Henry Laskin

Micaëla Lalla MirandaFr asquita Mlle. Tati-LangoMercédès Maria Duchène

Zuniga Giuseppe de GraziaMoralès Gaston Villa





3/19/10: Faust: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein), matinée

Le docteur Faust Charles DalmorèsMéphistophélès Jean Vallier

Marguerite Mary GardenValentin Michel Dufour

Siébel Regina VicarinoDame Marthe Schwertlein Maria Duchène


3/19/10: Gala: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)Il trovatore (Act II):Azucena Augusta DoriaManrico Nicola Zerola


Carmen(Act IV):Carmen Marguerite Sylva

Don José Georges LucasEscamillo Michel Dufour


Cavalleria rusticana:Santuzza Carmen Melis

Lola Maria DuchèneTuriddu Georges Lucas

Alfio Giovanni PoleseLucia Gina Severina


Aida (Act II):Amneris Augusta Doria

Aida Mariette MazarinRadamès Nicola Zerola



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3/21/10: Louise: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Oscar Hammerstein): 3/12/10 except:

La père Charles Gilibert

3/22/10: Pelléas et Mélisande: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Hammerstein)

Méliande Mary GardenPelléas Charles DalmorèsGolaud Hector Dufranne

Geneviève Jeanne Gerville-RéacheArkel Gustave Huberdeau

Yniold Emma TrentiniUn médicin Armand Crabbé

maestro direttore Henriquez de la Fuente

3/24/10: Lakmé: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company, Oscar Hammerstein)

Lakmé Luisa TetrazziniNilakantha Gustave Huberdeau

Mallika Maria DuchèneHadji Domenico Russo

Gérald John McCormackEllen Emma Trentini

Frédéric Armand CrabbéRose Regina Vicarino

Miss Bentson Gina Severinamaestro direttore Carlo Nicosia

3/26/10: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Co., Hammerstein), matinée

Il duca di Mantova Orville HarroldRigoletto Giovanni Polese

Gilda Lalla MirandaSparafucile Jean VallierMaddalena Alice Gentle

Il conte di Monterone Michele SampieriMatteo Borsa Ugo Malfatti


Il cavaliere Marullo Nicolo FossettaIl conte di Ceprano Rocco Franzini

Pa g gio della duchessaunknownmaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

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3/26/10: Gala (closing night of the season) [final performance of Oscar Hammerstein’s Opera Company in Philadelphia]:Philadelphia, Philadelphia Opera House (Philadelphia Opera Company), hour: 2000

I

Giovanni PolesePa gliacci Si può? (Prologo)

Les contes d’Hoffmann(Act III):Hoffmann David Devries

Nicklausse Alice GentleGiulietta Lina Cavalieri

Dapertutto Maurice RenaudSchlémil Armand Crabbé


II

Emma Trentiniunknown aria


Samson et Dalila(Act II):Dalila Augusta Doria Jeanne Gerville-Réache

Samson Charles DalmorèsLe grand-prêtre de Dagon Hector Dufranne


III

Nicola Zerolaunknown aria

Charles Gilibertunknown aria


IV

Roméo et Juliette(Act III):Roméo Charles DalmorèsJuliette Mary Garden

Frère Laurent Gustave HuberdeauLe comte Capulet Hector Dufranne

Gertrude Maria Duchènemaestro direttore Henriquez de la Fuente

Lalla MirandaJohann Strauß, Jr. Voce di primaveramaestro direttore Carlo Nicosia

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Hérodiade (Act I):Jean Georges Lucas

Hérode Maurice RenaudPhanuel Jean VallierSalomé Lina Cavalieri Mariette Mazarin

Hérodiade Marguerite d’Alvarezmaestro direttore Carlo Nicosia

Orville HarroldRigoletto La donna è mobile


VI

Faust (Final scene):Le docteur Faust Charles DalmorèsMéphistophélès Jean Vallier Gustave Huberdeau

Marguerite Mary Gardenmaestro direttore Carlo Nicosia

Karyl Lynn Zietz writes: On April 26, 1910, Arthur Hammerstein, with his father’s power of attorney, sold OscarHammerstein’s operatic interests which included the Philadelphia Opera House [to the Metropolitan Opera ofNew York]. The theater was renamed the Metropolitan Opera House, and the Academy lost its most faithfulopera tenant [Metropolitan Opera Company, New York] for the next decade.

4/28/10: The bohemian girl(Michael William Balfe): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society):stage director William Parry; ballet master C. Ellwood Carpenter

Count Arnheim Fred. J. BalmondFlorestein H. S. MacWhorterThaddeus Joseph S. McGlynn

Devilshoof Henry HotzArline May Ebrey Hotz

The gypsy queen Mrs. Russell King MillerThe child Arline Constance Carpenter


5/12/10: Patience: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage manager J. Barry Colahan, III5/12/10: Patience: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

Colonel Calverly Clarence C. BrintonMajor Murgatroyd Joseph Patterson Sims

Lieutenant, the duke of DunstableG. Plantou MiddletonReginald Bunthorne George C. Allen

Archibald Grosvenor Joseph F. PowersMr. Bunthorne’s solicitor Samuel Hazard

The lady Angela Margaret E. WalterThe lady Saphir Dorothy Welsh

The lady Ella Muriel InglisThe lady Jane Elsie Morris Brinton

Patience, a dairy maid Ethel Marriott Jonesmaestro direttore Selden Miller

5/13/10: Patience: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/13/10: Patience: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

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9/26/10: Die lustige Witwe: Philadelphia, Adelphi Theatre (Henry W. Savage): Hungarian Orchestra, Nicholas Boday;gowns and millinery Mme, Zimmermann and Landioffs, Paris

Sonia Mabel WilberPrince Danillo Charles Meakins

Popoc R. E. GrahamNish Fred Frear

Nova Kovich F. J. McCarthyNatalie Ivy Scott

Vicomte Cascada Charles W. KaufmanRaoul de St. Brioche F. P. McGirr

maestro direttore Arthur Weld

Die lustige Witweran for two weeks with matinées on Thursdays and Saturdays.

9/29/10: Carmen(German): Philadelphia, German Theatre, Franklin and Girard Ave. (Max Hanisch): dir. Remy Marsano

Carmen Emille Schonefeld-HanischDon José Simon SchwalbEscamillo Karl Wild

Micaëla Nora von BauerschubertFr asquita Maria MeggendorferMercédès Eliza Decherany

Zuniga Frederick AyresMoralès Herman Gerold

Le Dancaïre Remy MarfanoLe Remendado Georg La-Tour-Albrecht

maestro direttore Ludwig Schmidt-Fabri

9/30/10: Carmen: Philadelphia, German Theatre10/01/10: Carmen: Philadelphia, German Theatre10/03/10: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, 11th Street Opera House, btw. Chestnut and Market Streets (Dumonts Minstrels)

The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B.John E. MurphyCaptain Corcoran Alf S. GibsonRalph Rackstraw Tom O’Brien

Dick Deadeye, able seamanHarry C. ShunkBill Bobstay, boatswain unknown

Bob Becket, boatswain’s mateunknownTom Tucker unknown

Josephine Edgar AkinPhoebe Charles Boyden

Little Buttercup Billy Bowers

H. M. S. Pinaforeran for two weeks with Wednesday and Saturday matinées. However, I believe this was moreof a satire ofPinafore than a production of the actual operetta. A review ofMikado that began on October 24,by Dumonts Minstrels, notes that that production was indeed a satire.

10/05/10: Carmen: Philadelphia, German Theatre10/07/10: Carmen: Philadelphia, German Theatre10/08/10: Carmen: Philadelphia, German Theatre10/11/10: Carmen: Philadelphia, German Theatre

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10/13/10: Alessandro Stradella(Flotow): Philadelphia, German Theatre

Simon SchwalbFrederick AyresRemy MarsanoGeorg La-Tour-AlbrechtNora von Bauerschubert

10/14/10: Alessandro Stradella: Philadelphia, German Theatre10/15/10: Alessandro Stradella: Philadelphia, German Theatre10/17/10: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre [Messrs. Shubert]

The Mikado of Japan William DanforthNanki-Poo Frank Rushworth

Ko-Ko Digby BellPoo-Bah H. S. Waterous

Pish-Tush Arthur CunninghamYum-Yum Fritzi Scheff

[Pitti-Sing] Hattie Fox[Peep-Bo] Marie Ross

Katisha Kate Condonmaestro direttore unknown

The Mikadoran for a two week engagement with Saturday matinées.

10/18/10: Alessandro Stradella: Philadelphia, German Theatre10/19/10: Alessandro Stradella: Philadelphia, German Theatre10/20/10: Der alte Dessauer(Otto Findeisen): Philadelphia, German Theatre

Anna Lisa Emille Schonefeld-HanischPrince Leopold of Dessau Georg La-Tour-Albrecht

The apothecary Herman GeroldThe student Paul Kohlmann

10/21/10: Der alte Dessauer: Philadelphia, German Theatre10/22/10: Der alte Dessauer: Philadelphia, German Theatre10/25/10: Der alte Dessauer: Philadelphia, German Theatre10/26/10: Der alte Dessauer: Philadelphia, German Theatre10/27/10: Il trovatore (German): Philadelphia, German Theatre

Il conte di Luna Remy MarsanoLeonora Nora von BauerschubertAzucena Eliza DecheranyManrico Simon Schwalb

Ferrando Herman GeroldInes Maria MeggendorferRuiz Georg La-Tour-Albrecht

Un vecchio zingaro Heinrich WeissegerberUn messaggero Robert Unger

10/29/10: Der alte Dessauer: Philadelphia, German Theatre, matinée10/29/10: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, German Theatre11/01/10: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, German Theatre11/02/10: Der alte Dessauer: Philadelphia, German Theatre

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11/03/10: Norma (English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society, John Curtis), hour: 2000:stage director William Parry; ballet director C. Ellwood Carpenter; costumes Van Horn & Son

Norma Gertrude RichardsonPollione Joseph S. McGlynnAdalgisa Leila B. SchroederOroveso Bourke SullivanClotilde Leonora Sindel

Flavio Thomas Mohrmaestro direttore Siegfried Behrensmaestro del coro Stanley Muschamp

The dance of the hours(from: La gioconda): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society):ballet master C. Ellwood Carpenter; corps de ballet of 48

The moon Helen Rigbymaestro direttore Siegfried Behrens

11/04/10: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, German Theatre11/05/10: Carmen(German): Philadelphia, German Theatre, matinée

Carmen Emille Schonefeld-HanischDon José Simon SchwalbMicaëla Nora von Bauerschubert


11/08/10: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, German Theatre11/17/10: Martha: Philadelphia, German Theatre

Lady Harriet Durham Nora von BauerschubertNancy Eliza Decherany

Lord Tristan Mickleford unknownLyonel Simon Schwalb

Plumkett Remy MarsanoDer Richter zu Richmond unknown


11/18/10: Martha: Philadelphia, German Theatre11/19/10: Martha: Philadelphia, German Theatre11/22/10: Martha: Philadelphia, German Theatre11/24/10: Martha: Philadelphia, German Theatre11/26/10: Martha: Philadelphia, German Theatre

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11/28/10: Hans, the flute player(Louis Ganne,Hans, le joueur de flûte), English: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (OscarHammerstein’s Manhattan Opera House production), hour: 2015: stage director Jacques Coini

Hans Georges ChadalYoris Frank Pollock

Pippermann George W. CallahanVan Pott William Friend

Petronius Paul L. WarrenWillum Frank Coombs

Tanfendorff F. C. ChapmanLoskitch B. Milton

Steinbeck L. DermanKarteifle J. L. HesseLisbeth Felice Lyne

Ketchen Olive UlrichFr au Pippermann Alice Gentle

Else Sophie Massellmaestro direttore Josiah Zuro

Hans, the flute playerran for four weeks with Wednesday and Saturday, matinées.

11/29/10: Martha: Philadelphia, German Theatre12/01/10: Martha: Philadelphia, German Theatre12/02/10: Rigoletto(German): Philadelphia, German Theatre

Il duca di Mantova Simon SchwalbRigoletto Remy Marsano

Gilda Nora von BauerschubertSparafucile unknownMaddalena Eliza Decherany


12/03/10: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, German Theatre12/06/10: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, German Theatre12/08/10: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, German Theatre12/09/10: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, German Theatre12/10/10: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, German Theatre12/13/10: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, German Theatre12/15/10: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, German Theatre12/16/10: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Philadelphia, German Theatre12/17/10: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Philadelphia, German Theatre

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12/13/10: Tannhäuser: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Hermann Allen HinckleyTannhäuser Leo Slezak

Wolfram von EschenbachWalter SoomerWalter von der Vogelweide Glenn Hall

Biterolf William HinshawHeinrich der Schreiber Julius Bayer

Reinmar von Zweter Frederick GuntherElisabeth Berta Morena

Venus Olive FremstadEin Hirtenknabe Lenora Sparkes

Pa g e Inga ÖrnerPa g e Anna CasePa g e Lillia SnellingPa g e Henriette Wakefield


Lucia FornaroliMarcelle Myrtille

Gina Torriani

12/19/10: Die Dollarprinzessin(Leo Fall): Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House, hour: 2000

Marquis de Jolifontaine F. Pope StamperJohn W. Cowder Edward J. Connelly

Tom Cowder Albert HartDick George E. Reed

Fr eddy Smythe Donald BrianIvan Tartaroff Will WestAlice Cowder Daisy Le Hay

Daisy Carroll McComasOlga Labinsky Hilda Viningrole unknown Zena Curzonrole unknown Cyril Biddulph


Die Dollarprinzessinran for four weeks with matinées on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 p.m, with additionalmatinées on the Mondays following Christmas and New Year’s days.

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12/20/10: La fanciulla del West: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Minnie Falconer Emmy DestinnJack Rance Pasquale Amato

Dick Johnson(Ramerrez) Enrico CarusoNick Albert Reiss

Ashby Adamo DidurSonora Dinh Gilly

Trin Angelo BadàSid Giulio Rossi

Bello Vincenzo ReschiglianHarry Pietro Audisio

Joe Glenn HallHappy Antonio Pini-Corsi

Jim Larkens Bernard BéguéBilly Jackrabbit Georges Bourgeois

Wowkle Marie MattfeldJake Wallace Andrés de SegurolaJosè Castro Edoardo Missiano

Un postiglione Lamberto Bellerimaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini

143

12/27/10: Orfeo ed Euridice: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Orfeo Louise HomerEuridice Marie Rappold

Amore Alma GluckSpirit Alma Gluck


Marcelle Myrtille

The dying swanAnna Pavlowa


Polish dancesStanislava Kun

Stephana PlaskovietzkaiaHalina SchmolzSergei Moroseff

Mikail MoisseiewAlexis Trojanowski

Veronine WestBronislawa Pajitzskaia


VariationsMikhain Mordkin


Russian dancesBronislawa Pajitzskaia


L’automne bacchanaleMikhain Mordkin

Anna Pavlowamaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini

19111/10/11: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)



Goro Angelo BadàIl principe Yamadori Georges Bourgeois

Lo zio Yakusidé Francesco CerriLo zio Bonzo Bernard Bégué

Il commissario imperiale Giulio RossiKate Pinkerton Helen Mapleson


144

1/20/11: Aida: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company, Andreas Dippel),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri

Il re d’Egitto Berardo BerardiAmneris Eleanora de Cisneros (pka: Eleanor Broadfoot)

Aida Carolina WhiteRadamès Amedeo Bassi

Ramfis Nazzareno de AngelisAmonasro Mario Sammarco

Un messaggero Dante ZucchiUna sacerdotessa Mabel Riegelmanmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campaninimaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio

Gina Torriani

1/21/11: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400:stage director Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri; costumes Freisinger, New York

Thaïs Mary Garden Lillian Grenville

Athanaël Maurice RenaudNicias Charles Dalmorès

Palémon Gustave HuberdeauCrobyle Marie CavanMyrtale Serafina ScalfaroAlbine Clotilde Bressler-Gianoli


Cénobites

Emilio Venturini

Nicolo FossettaGustave DuclefDésiré DefrèreMarius SperteJean de KeyserJoseph DemortierMichele SampieriM. AlbaniM. SteffaniM. Baumann

maestro direttore Cleofonte Campaninimaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio

meditation played by concertmaster Kramer

1/21/11: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Il duca di Mantova John McCormackRigoletto Mario Sammarco

Gilda Lydia LipkowskaSparafucile Vittorio ArimondiMaddalena Tina di Angelo

Il conte di Monterone [Michele] SampieriMatteo Borsa [Emilio Venturini]

La contessa di Ceprano [Minnie Egener]Giovanna [Ferrari Pattini]

Il cavaliere Marullo [Nicolo Fossetta]Il conte di Ceprano [Berardo Berardi]

maestro direttore Ettore Perosio

145

1/23/11: La fanciulla del West: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000

Minnie Falconer Carolina WhiteJack Rance Mario Sammarco

Dick Johnson(Ramerrez) Amedeo BassiNick Francesco Daddi

Ashby Nazzareno de AngelisSonora Hector Dufranne

Trin Edmond WarnerySid Nicolo Fossetta

Bello Michele SampieriHarry Dante Zucchi

Joe Emilio VenturiniHappy Berardo Berardi

Jim Larkens Pompilio MalatestaBilly Jackrabbit Gustave Huberdeau

Wowkle Clotilde Bressler-GianoliJake Wallace Armand CrabbéJosè Castro Constantin Nicolay

Un postiglione Désiré Defrèremaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

1/24/11: Thaïs: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Fernand Almanz; chorus masters Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio; ballet master Luigi Albertieri


Nicias Charles DalmorèsPalémon Gustave HuberdeauCrobyle Serafina ScalfaroMyrtale Marie CavanAlbine Clotilde Bressler-Gianoli


Cénobites

Emilio Venturini

Nicolo FossettaGustave DuclefDésiré DefrèreMarius SperteCharles MeyerJean de KeyserJoseph DemortierMichele SampieriM. AlbaniM. SteffaniM. Baumann


146

1/25/11: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

Carmen Marguerite SylvaDon José Mario GuardabassiEscamillo Hector Dufranne

Micaëla Alice ZeppilliFr asquita Marie CavanMercédès Giuseppina Giaconia

Zuniga Gustave HuberdeauMoralès Désiré Defrère

Le Dancaïre Constantin NicolayLe Remendado Francesco Daddi


Gina Torriani

1/26/11: Faust (English): Philadelphia. Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society, John Curtis), hour: 1930:chorus of 200; ballet of 48; orchestra of 70; stage director William Parry; ballet director C. EllwoodCarpenter; organ William Bentz

Le docteur Faust Paul S. AlthouseMéphistophélès Frank M. Conly

Marguerite Helen MacNameeValentin Horace R. Hood

Siébel Leonora SindelDame Marthe Schwertlein Miriam Rubin

Wa gner Harry J. Conwellmaestro direttore Siegfried Behrensmaestro del coro Stanley Muschamp

Helen Rigby

1/26/11: Aida: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Amneris Eleanora de CisnerosAida Jeanne Korolowicz

Radamès Nicola ZerolaRamfis Nazzareno de Angelis

Amonasro [Mario Sammarco]Un messaggero Dante Zucchi

Una sacerdotessa [Mabel Riegelman]maestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

1/27/11: La bohème: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

Mimì Lillian GrenvilleRodolfo John McCormack

Marcello Mario SammarcoSchaunard Armand Crabbé

Colline Nazzareno de AngelisBenoît Francesco Daddi

Alcindoro Pompilio MalatestaMusetta Alice Zeppilli

Parpignol Dante ZucchiSergente dei doganieri Rocco Franzini

Un ufficiale Michele Sampierimaestro direttore Ettore Perosio

147

1/28/11: Louise: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400:stage director Fernand Almanz

Louise Mary GardenJulien Charles Dalmorès

La mère Clotilde Bressler-GianoliLa père Hector Dufranne

Le chiffonnier Gustave HuberdeauLe pape des fous Edmond Warnerymaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

1/28/11: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

Il conte di Luna Alfredo CostaAzucena Eleanora de CisnerosLeonora Jeanne KorolowiczManrico Nicola Zerola

Ferrando Constantin NicolayInes Minnie EgenerRuiz Dante Zucchi

Un messaggero Rocco Franzinimaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

1/30/11: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000

Santuzza Carolina WhiteLola Tina di Angelo

Turiddu John McCormackAlfio Armand Crabbé

Lucia Ferrari Pattinimaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Nedda Marguerite SylvaCanio Amedeo BassiTonio Mario SammarcoBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Alfredo Costa


148

1/31/11: Louise: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1945: stagedirector Fernand Almanz; chorus masters Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio; ballet master Luigi Albertieri


La mère Clotilde Bressler-GianoliLa père Hector Dufranne

La petite chiffonnière Mabel RiegelmanLa glaneuse de charbonDenise Morris

Le noctambule Edmond WarneryLa plieuse Vera Allen

Le bricoleur Constantin NicolayLa laitière Minnie Egener

Le chiffonnier Gustave HuberdeauLe premier gardien de la paix Joseph Demortier

Le deuxième gardien de la paixJean de KeyserLe gavroche Suzanne Dumesnil

La balayeuse Marion WalkerLe peintre Nicolo Fossetta

Le sculpteur Désiré DefrèreLe chansonnier Emilio Venturini

Le premier philosophe Armand CrabbéLe jeune poète Marius Sperte

Le deuxième philosopheCharles MeyerL’apprentie Gabrielle KlinkL’étudiant Gustave Duclef

Le rempailleuse Giuseppina GiaconiaLa marchande d’artichauts Wilhelmina Duclef

Le marchand de carottesEmilio VenturiniLa marchande de mouronSerafina Scalfaro

Un marchand ambulant Gustave DuclefA dancer Gina TorrianiBlanche Minnie Egener

Marguerite Adelaide CarrollSuzanne Vera Allen

Gertrude Giuseppina GiaconiaCamille Serafina Scalfaro

Irma Marie CavanÉlise Denise Morris

Jeanne Lillian RogersHenrietta Mae Johnson

Madeleine Marie BorchardtLe marchand d’habits Francesco Daddi

La première Marion WalkerLe pape des fous Edmond Warnery

An errand girl Suzanne Dumesnilmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

149

2/01/11: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000



Le serviteur de Nicias Constantin Nicolaymaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

2/02/11: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)2/03/11: La fanciulla del West: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),

hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; design Edward Siedle; scenery painted by Ernest M.Gros, New York; properties from Siedle Studios, New York; costumes Freisinger, New York

Minnie Falconer Carolina WhiteJack Rance Mario Sammarco

Dick Johnson(Ramerrez) Amedeo BassiNick Francesco Daddi

Ashby Nazzareno de AngelisSonora Hector Dufranne

Trin Edmond WarnerySid Nicolo Fossetta

Bello Michele SampieriHarry Dante Zucchi

Joe Emilio VenturiniHappy Berardo Berardi

Jim Larkens Pompilio MalatestaBilly Jackrabbit Gustave Huberdeau

Wowkle Clotilde Bressler-GianoliJake Wallace Armand CrabbéJosè Castro Constantin Nicolay

Un postiglione Désiré Defrèremaestro direttore Cleofonte Campaninimaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio

150

2/04/11: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 1400

Hoffmann John McCormackNicalus Tina Di Angelo

Olympia Alice ZeppilliAntonia Lillian Grenville

Giulietta Marguerite SylvaLindorf Armand Crabbé

Coppélius Maurice RenaudDr. Miracle Maurice RenaudDapertutto Maurice Renaud

Andrès Francesco DaddiCochenille Francesco Daddi

Fr anz Francesco DaddiPitichinaccio Emilio Venturini

La mère d’Antonia Giuseppina GiaconiaSpalanzani Gustave Huberdeau

Hermann Nicolo FossettaSchlémil Armand Crabbé

Nathanaël Emilio VenturiniLuther Michele Sampieri

Crespel Gustave Huberdeaumaestro direttore Marcel Charlier

2/04/11: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 1400

Miss Lucia Lydia LipkowskaSir Edgardo di RavenswoodFlorencio Constantino

Lord Enrico Asthon Alfredo CostaRaimondo Bidebent Vittorio ArimondiLord Arturo Buclaw Emilio Venturini

Alisa Minnie EgenerNormanno Dante Zucchi


2/06/11: Otello: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

Otello Leo SlezakJa go Mario Sammarco

Cassio Emilio VenturiniRoderigo Dante ZucchiLodovico Nazzareno de AngelisMontàno Armand Crabbé

Un araldo Nicolo FossettaDesdemona Frances Alda

Emilia Giuseppina Giaconiamaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

151

2/07/11: Pelléas et Mélisande: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; chorus masters Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio; balletmaster Luigi Albertieri

Méliande Mary GardenPelléas Edmond WarneryGolaud Hector Dufranne

Geneviève Clotilde Bressler-GianoliArkel Gustave Huberdeau

Yniold Suzanne DumesnilUn médicin Armand Crabbé


2/08/11: Faust: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri

Le docteur Faust Charles DalmorèsMéphistophélès Gustave Huberdeau

Marguerite Frances AldaValentin Armand Crabbé

Siébel Tina di AngeloDame Marthe Schwertlein Clotilde Bressler-Gianoli

Wa gner Désiré Defrèremaestro direttore Marcel Charliermaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio

Gina Torriani

2/09/11: La fanciulla del West: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)2/10/11: Pelléas et Mélisande: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000


Geneviève Clotilde Bressler-GianoliArkel Gustave Huberdeau

Yniold Suzanne DumesnilUn médicin Armand Crabbé


2/11/11: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 1400

Cio-cio-san Alice ZeppilliB. F. Pinkerton Amedeo Bassi

Suzuki Giuseppina GiaconiaSharpless Mario Sammarco

Goro Dante ZucchiIl principe Yamadori Pompilio Malatesta

Lo zio Bonzo Berardo BerardiIl commissario imperiale Michele Sampieri

Kate Pinkerton Marie CavanL’ufficiale del registro Rocco Franzini

La madre di Cio-cio-san Adelaide CarrollLa cugina Minnie Egener


152

2/11/11: Les huguenots(Italian): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri

Marguerite de Valois Alice ZeppilliLe comte de Saint-Bris Gustave Huberdeau

Valentine Jeanne KorolowiczLe comte de NeversWilhelm Beck

Urbain Tina di AngeloCossé Dante Zucchi

Tavannes Emilio VenturiniDe Retz Nicolo Fossetta

Méru Désiré DefrèreMaurevert Michele Sampieri

Raoul de Nangis Nicola ZerolaMarcel Vittorio Arimondi

Bois-Rosé Nicolo Fossetta

Deux Demoiselles d’honneur de la Reine Minnie Egener

Adelaide CarrollLeonardo Marie Cavan

Watchman Nicolo Fossettamaestro direttore Ettore Perosiomaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio



Micaëla Lillian GrenvilleFr asquita Marie CavanMercédès Giuseppina Giaconia



Lillas Pastia Jean de KeyserA guide Charles Mayer


153

2/14/11: Königskinder: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Der Königssohn Hermann JadlowkerDer Gänsemagd Geraldine FarrarDer Spielmann Otto Goritz

Die Hexe Louise HomerDer Holzhacker Adamo Didur

Der Besenbinder Albert ReissSein Töchterchen Lotte Engel

Der Wirt Antonio Pini-CorsiDie Wirtstochter Florence Wickham

Der Schneider Julius BayerDie Stallmagd Marie Mattfeld

Erster Torwächter William HinshawZweiter Torwächter Basil Ruysdael

Der Ratsälteste Marcel Reinermaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

2/14/11: Les contes d’Hoffmann: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; chorus masters Achille Clivio, Pietro Nepoti; balletmaster Luigi Albertieri

Hoffmann Charles DalmorèsNicklausse Tina di Angelo


Giulietta Marguerite SylvaLindorf Armand Crabbé

Coppélius Maurice RenaudDr. Miracle Maurice RenaudDapertutto Maurice RenaudCochenille Francesco Daddi

Fr antz Francesco DaddiPitichinaccio Emilio Venturini

La mère d’Antonia Giuseppina GiaconiaSpalanzani Constantin Nicolay

Hermann Désiré DefrèreSchlémil Armand Crabbé

Nathanaël Emilio VenturiniLuther Nicolo Fossetta

Crespel Constantin Nicolaymaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

154

2/15/11: Aida: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri; costumes Freisinger, New York

Il re d’Egitto Berardo BerardiAmneris Eleanora de Cisneros

Aida Jeanne KorolowiczRadamès Nicola Zerola

Ramfis Nazzareno de AngelisAmonasro Alfredo Costa

Un messaggero Dante ZucchiUna sacerdotessa Mabel Riegelmanmaestro direttore Ettore Perosiomaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio

2/16/11: Carmen: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Carmen Marguerite SylvaDon José [Charles Dalmorès]Micaëla Alice Zeppilli

Fr asquita Marie CavanMercédès Giuseppina Giaconia








Cénobites

Emilio Venturini

Nicolo FossettaGustave DuclefDésiré DefrèreMarius SperteCharles MeyerJean de KeyserJoseph DemortierMichele SampieriM. AlbaniM. SteffaniM. Baumann


155


Santuzza Marguerite SylvaLola Tina di Angelo

Turiddu Mario GuardabassiAlfio Wilhelm Beck



Nedda Jane Osborn-HannahCanio Amedeo BassiTonio Carlo GaleffiBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Armand Crabbé


2/18/11: La traviata: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri; costumes Freisinger, New York

Violetta Valéry Lydia LipkowskaAlfredo Germont Giuseppe Giorgi John McCormack

Giorgio Germont Alfredo CostaFlora Bervoix Minnie Egener

Il barone Douphol Nicolo FossettaIl dottor Grenvil Constantin Nicolay

Annina Ferrari PattiniGastone di Letorières Emilio VenturiniIl marchese d’Obigny Michele Sampieri

Giuseppe Louisa MilaneseUn domestico di Flora Tomaso Nascibene



Hoffmann Charles Dalmorès John McCormack

Nicalus Tina Di AngeloOlympia Alice ZeppilliAntonia Lillian Grenville

Giulietta Marguerite SylvaCoppélius Maurice Renaud

Dr. Miracle Maurice RenaudDapertutto Maurice RenaudCochenille Francesco Daddi

Fr anz Francesco DaddiCrespel Constantin Nicolay


156

2/21/11: Carmen: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz; chorus masters Achille Clivio, Pietro Nepoti; ballet master LuigiAlbertieri

Carmen Marguerite SylvaDon José Charles DalmorèsEscamillo Hector Dufranne




Lillas Pastia Jean de KeyserA guide Charles Meyer


2/22/11: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000

Cio-cio-san Alice NielsenB. F. Pinkerton Riccardo Martin

Suzuki Giuseppina GiaconiaSharpless Mario Sammarco






2/23/11: Les huguenots: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)2/24/11: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

Il duca di Mantova Giuseppe GiorgiRigoletto Maurice Renaud

Gilda Alice ZeppilliSparafucile Nazzareno de AngelisMaddalena Tina di Angelo

Il conte di Monterone Berardo BerardiMatteo Borsa Emilio Venturini

La contessa di Ceprano Minnie EgenerGiovanna Ferrari Pattini

Il cavaliere Marullo Nicolo FossettaIl conte di Ceprano Michele Sampieri

Usciere di corte unknownPa g gio della duchessaMinnie Egener


157

2/25/11: La bohème: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400:stage director Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri; costume Freisinger, New York

Mimì Frances AldaRodolfo Amedeo Bassi

Marcello Alfredo CostaSchaunard Armand Crabbé




Un ufficiale Michele Sampierimaestro direttore Ettore Perosiomaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio

2/25/11: Natoma(Victor Herbert) world première: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago GrandOpera Company), hour: 2000

Natoma Mary GardenBarbara de la Guerra Lillian Grenville

Lieutenant Paul Merrill John McCormackDon Francisco Gustave Huberdeau

Juan Bautista Alvarado Mario SammarcoFather Peralta Hector Dufranne

Pico Armand CrabbéKagama Constantin Nicolay

Josè Castro Frank PreischChiquita unknownA voice Minnie Egener

Sergeant Désiré Defrèremaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

2/25/11: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Merion Cricket Club (The Savo yCompany)

The learned judge Clarence C. BrintonThe defendant (Edwin) G. Plantou Middleton


Foreman of the jury John Clark SimsThe plaintiff (Angelina) Ethel Marriott Jones


2/26/11: Messa da Requiem(Verdi): Philadelphia, First Baptist Church, hour: 1930

Soprano Isabel R. BuchananTenore Nelson A. Chestnutt

Mezzo-soprano May WaltersBasso William J. Mandsley

maestro direttore Frederick Maxson

158

2/27/11: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz, costumes Freisinger, New York

Il conte di Luna Carlo GaleffiLeonora Jeanne KorolowiczAzucena Eleanora de CisnerosManrico Nicola Zerola

Ferrando Constantin NicolayInes Minnie EgenerRuiz Dante Zucchi

Un vecchio zingaro Nicolo FossettaUn messaggero Rocco Franzini

maestro direttore Attilio Parellimaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio

2/28/11: Natoma: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz; chorus masters Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio; ballet master LuigiAlbertieri; set design Alexander Harmer, Santa Barbara; production executed under supervision ofEdward Siedle, Metropolitan Opera House, New York; scenery painted by Gates and Morange;costumes E. S. Freisinger, New York; properties by Siedle Studios, New York

Natoma Mary GardenBarbara Lillian Grenville




Josè Castro Frank PreischChiquita Gabrielle KlinkA voice Minnie Egener



Hoffmann Charles DalmorèsNicalus Tina Di Angelo


Giulietta Marguerite SylvaCoppélius Maurice Renaud

Dr. Miracle Maurice RenaudDapertutto Maurice RenaudCochenille Francesco Daddi


3/02/11: Thaïs: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

159

3/03/11: Natoma: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri; assistant stage director GeorgeMarion; set and costume design Alexander Harmer, Santa Barbara; production executed under the thesupervision Edward Siedle; scenery painted by Gates and Morange; costumes E. S. Freisinger, NewYork; properties by Siedle Studios, New York







3/04/11: Aida: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400: balletmaster Luigi Albertini


Aida Johanna GadskiRadamès Nicola Zerola

Ramfis Nazzareno de AngelisAmonasro Hector Dufranne

Un messaggero Dante ZucchiUna sacerdotessa Mabel Riegelmanmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

3/04/11: La fanciulla del West: Boston[Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company], matinée

Minnie Falconer Carolina White

3/04/11: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz

Santuzza Jeanne KorolowiczLola Tina di Angelo

Turiddu Emilio VenturiniAlfio Armand Crabbé



Canio Luigi SamolliNedda Marguerite SylvaTonio Dinh GillyBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio WIlhelm Beck

maestro direttore Ettore Perosiomaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio

160

3/06/11: Le jongleur de Notre Dame: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Co.), hour: 2000


Un moine sculpteur Gustave HuberdeauUn moine peintre Constantin Nicolay

Un moine musicien Armand CrabbéUn moine poète Edmond Warnery

Un loustic Gustave DuclefUn ivrogne Désiré Defrère

Un chevalier Charles Meyermaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

3/07/11: Natoma: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000: 2/28/113/08/11: Tosca: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:

stage director Fernand Almanz

Floria Tosca Jeanne KorolowiczMario Cavaradossi Amedeo Bassi

Il barone Scarpia Maurice RenaudCesare Angelotti Michele Sampieri

Il sagrestano Pompilio MalatestaSpoletta Dante Zucchi


Un carceriere Rocco Franzinimaestro direttore Attilio Parellimaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio

3/09/11: Natoma: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)3/10/11: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),

hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; costumes Freisinger, New York

Hoffmann Charles DalmorèsNicklausse Tina di Angelo


Giulietta Jeanne KorolowiczLindorf Armand Crabbé

Maurice Renaud

CoppéliusDr. MiracleDapertutto

Francesco DaddiCochenille

Fr anzPitichinaccio Emilio Venturini


Hermann Désiré DefrèreSchlémil Armand Crabbé


Crespel Constantin Nicolaymaestro direttore Marcel Charlier

161

3/11/11: Natoma: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400




Pico Armand Crabbémaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

3/11/11: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri

Cio-cio-san Alice ZeppilliB. F. Pinkerton Amedeo Bassi

Suzuki Giuseppina GiaconiaSharpless Alfredo Costa





maestro direttore Ettore Perosiomaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio

3/13/11: La bohème: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

Mimì Frances AldaRodolfo Amedeo Bassi





Un ufficiale Michele Sampierimaestro direttore Ettore Perosio

162

3/14/11: Il segreto di Susanna: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; chorus masters Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio; balletmaster Luigi Albertieri

La contessa SusannaCarolina WhiteIl conte Gil Mario Sammarco

Sante Francesco Daddimaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

Le jongleur de Notre Dame: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.)


Un moine sculpteur Constantin NicolayUn moine peintre Gustave Huberdeau




3/15/11: Natoma: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000: 2/25/11

163

3/16/11: International Song Recital: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.):accompanist Arthur Rosenstein

Carolina WhiteAlexander MacFadyen Inter nos

Edwin Schneider Flower rainHarriet Ware Boat song

Chadwick Sweetheart, thy lips are touched with flame

Marguerite SylvaJules Massenet Pensée d’automne

Cécile Chaminade Tu me diraisCarlier Aubade printemps

Debussy:L’enfant prodigue Air de Lia

Jeanne KorolowiczMoritz Moszkowski Smutno

Stanislaw Niewiadomski StowisskuIgnacy Jan Paderewski DudziarzStanislaw Moniuszko Przadka

Fryderyk Chopin Mazurek

John McCormackHamilton Harty Lagan love songHamilton Harty The green hills of Antrim

Samuel Lover Molly Bawn

Nicola ZerolaRichard Barthélemy Triste ritorno

Attilio Parelli L’alba nascenteEmanuele Nutile Mamma mia

Leoncavallo Mattinata

Wilhelm BeckSchumann Ich grolle nichtSchumann Die LotosblumeSchumann Du bist wie eine BlumeSchumann Die bieden Grenadiere

3/16/11: La bohème: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Mimì Lydia LipkowskaRodolfo Amedeo Bassi




Parpignol Dante Zucchimaestro direttore Ettore Perosio

164

3/17/11: Il segreto di Susanna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000



Le jongleur de Notre Dame: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.)


Un moine sculpteur Gustave HuberdeauUn moine peintre Constantin Nicolay




3/18/11: Tosca: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400

Floria Tosca Lillian GrenvilleMario Cavaradossi Riccardo Martin

Il barone Scarpia Carlo Galeffimaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

3/18/11: Thaïs: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000: 1/24/11 except:

Crobyle Marie Cavan

3/20/11: Aida: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000


Aida Johanna GadskiRadamès Leo Slezak

Ramfis Nazzareno de AngelisAmonasro Carlo Galeffi

Un messaggero unknownUna sacerdotessa unknownmaestro direttore Ettore Perosio

3/21/11: Louise: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000: 1/31/11 except:

A dancer Mabel Gilmore

165

3/22/11: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri

Il duca di Mantova Amedeo BassiRigoletto Carlo Galeffi

Gilda Lydia LipkowskaSparafucile Vittorio ArimondiMaddalena Tina di Angelo

Il conte di Monterone Michele SampieriMatteo Borsa Emilio Venturini

La contessa di Ceprano Minnie EgenerGiovanna Ferrari Pattini

Il cavaliere Marullo Nicolo FossettaIl conte di Ceprano Rocco Franzini

Pa g gio della duchessaMinnie Egenermaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

3/23/11: Lucia di Lammermoor: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)3/23/11: Cavalleria rusticana, German: Philadelphia, German Theatre

Santuzza Elsa Eisini Rosenbach

Sarrona(William Legrand Howland), German: Philadelphia, German Theatre

The king Simon EchwaldThe queen Jeannette AcronaThe slave Remy Marsano

Sarrona Nora von Bauerschubert



Micaëla Lydia LipkowskaZuniga Gustave Huberdeau


166

3/25/11: Les contes d’Hoffmann(Act II): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand OperaCompany), hour: 1400: stage director Fernand Almanz

Hoffmann John McCormackNicklausse Tina di Angelo

Giulietta Marguerite SylvaDapertutto William Beck

Pitichinaccio Emilio VenturiniSchlémil Armand Crabbé

maestro direttore Marcel CharlierInterval

Il segreto di Susanna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)



The Imperial Russian Dancers:Anna Pavlowa, Mikhain Mordkin

Mlles. Bewickowa, Kun, Stephana Plaskovietzkaia, Halina SchmolzDelibes:Coppelia Suite

Bronislawa PajitzskaiaTschaikowsky Russian dance

Stephana Plaskovietzkaia, Halina SchmolzChopin Valse

Mikhain MordkinTschaikowsky Variations

Bronislawa Pajitzskaia, Sergei Moroseff,Mlle. KunStephana Plaskovietzkaia, Halina Schmolz, M. M. Barboe

Glinka Mazurka

Anna Pavlowa, Mikhain MordkinGlazounow Bacchanale

maestro direttore Theodore Stier

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3/25/11: Quo vadis (Jean-Charles Nougues), American première (French): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House(Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.), hour: 2000

Lygie Alice ZeppilliEunice Lillian GrenvillePoppee Eleanora de Cisneros

Nero Vittorio ArimondiVinicius Charles DalmorèsPetrone Maurice Renaud

Ursus, a giant slave Arthur WheelerCroton, a young gladiator Walter Wheeler

Peter, the apostle Gustave HuberdeauA Greek maiden Marcelle Myrtille

Chilon, a philosopher Hector Dufrannerole unknown Clotilde Bressler-Gianolirole unknown Serafina Scalfarorole unknown Suzanne Dumesnil

Sporus Armand CrabbéDemas Constantin Nicolay

The young Nerva Emilio VenturiniIras Marie Cavan

The mother Alice EversmanNazairie Mabel Riegelman

Lilith Minnie EgenerA young christian Minnie Egener

Tigellin Michele SampieriVatinuius Désiré Defrère

A centurian Nicolo Fossettamaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

3/27/11: Quo vadis: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 1945: 3/25/113/28/11: Lohengrin: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1930

Heinrich der Vogler Herbert WitherspoonLohengrin Leo Slezak

Elsa von Brabant Johanna GadskiFriedrich von Telramund Otto Goritz

Ortrud Louise HomerDer Heerrufer des Königs William Hinshaw


Julius Bayer

Ludwig BurgstallerAdolf FuhrmannMarcel Reiner

Vier Edelknaben

Constanze Bitterl

Elisabeth SandvossSenta Fritsch-WinterGertrude Höft


168

3/28/11: Il segreto di Susanna: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 1945: stage director Fernand Almanz; chorus masters Achille Clivio, Pietro Nepoti; balletmaster Luigi Albertieri



Natoma: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)







3/29/11: Gala (on the occasion of the Italo-American Congress): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Santuzza Jeanne KorolowiczLola Tina di Angelo

Turiddu Mario GuardabassiAlfio Wilhelm Beck


Il segreto di Susanna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)




Nedda Marguerite SylvaCanio Amedeo BassiTonio Alfredo CostaBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Armand Crabbé


3/00/11: Sarrona: Philadelphia, German Theatre

169

3/30/11: Il segreto di Susanna: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)



Le jongleur de Notre Dame: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)



3/31/11: Quo vadis: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Co.), hour: 1945: 3/25/11 except:

Vinicius Mario Guardabassi

4/01/11: Quo vadis: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 1345: 3/25/114/01/11: Sarrona: Philadelphia, German Theatre4/01/11: Gala: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

La bohème(Act III):Mimì Lydia Lipkowska

Musetta Alice ZeppilliRodolfo Amedeo Bassi

Marcello Armand Crabbé

Les contes d’Hoffmann(Act II):Hoffmann John McCormack

Nicklausse Tina di AngeloGiulietta Marguerite Sylva

Dapertutto William BeckArmand CrabbéEmilio Venturini


Thaïs (Act II):Thaïs Mary Garden

Athanaël Hector DufranneNicias Charles Dalmorès


Il segreto di Susanna:La contessa SusannaCarolina White

Il conte Gil Mario SammarcoSante Francesco Daddi


Faust (Act IV):Marguerite Lillian Grenville

Le docteur Faust Mario GuardabassiMéphistophélès Gustave Huberdeau


During the intermissions under the direction of Cleofonte Campanini the orchestra played the Overture toTannhäuser, the Barcarolle fromLes contes d’Hoffmann, and the Méditation fromThaïs.

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4/03/11: Natoma: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000




Pico Armand CrabbéJosè Castro Frank Preisch


4/04/11: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

La gioconda Emmy DestinnEnzo Grimaldo Riccardo MartinLaura Adorno Louise Homer


La cieca Maria ClaessensZuàne Bernard BéguéIsèpo Pietro Audisio


4/04/11: Quo vadis: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1945

except:Vinicius Mario Guardabassi

4/05/11: Quo vadis: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 19454/11/11: Parsifal: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1900

Amfortas Pasquale AmatoTiturel William Hinshaw

Gurnemanz Herbert WitherspoonParsifal Carl Jörn

Klingsor Otto GoritzKundry Olive Fremstad

Erster Gralsritter Julius BayerZweiter Gralsritter William Hinshaw

Altstimme Henriette WakefieldErster Knappe Lenora Sparkes

Zweiter Knappe Henriette WakefieldDritter Knappe Albert ReissVierter Knappe Glenn Hall

Zaubermädchen

Lenora Sparkes

Rita ForniaRosina van DyckBella AltenMarie MattfeldHenriette Wakefield


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4/24/11: Madama Butterfly(English): Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Milton and Sargent Aborn EnglishGrand Opera Company), hour: 2015: stage director Edward P. Temple

Cio-cio-san Dora de FillippeB. F. Pinkerton Henry Taylor

Suzuki Ellen JamesSharpless Louis Kreidler

Goro Rudolph KochIl principe Yamadori unknown

Lo zio Bonzo Saul RoselleIl commissario imperiale Frederick Chapman

Kate Pinkerton Laura TerrellL’ufficiale del registro unknown

Dolore Margaret Ravoirmaestro direttore Hugo Reisenfeld

4/25/11: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 2015

Cio-cio-san Regina VicarinoSharpless Morton Adkins

4/26/11: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Manhein (The Savo yCompany)

The learned judge Clarence C. BrintonThe defendant (Edwin) G. Plantou Middleton


Foreman of the jury John Clark SimsThe plaintiff (Angelina) Ethel Marriott Jones


4/26/11: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 14154/26/11: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 20154/27/11: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 20154/27/11: Maritana (William Vincent Wallace): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society): stage

director William Perry; ballet director C. Ellwood Carpenter; concertmaster Thaddeus Rich

Maritana May Ebrey HotzLazarillo Marie Stone Langston

Marchioness de Montifiore Anna M. UppDon Caesar de Bazan Joseph S. McGlynn

Don Jose Kenneth DrydenKing Henry Hotz

Marquis de Montifiore A. W. DaniellAlcalde Charles D. Cuzner

Captain of the guard Roland Tonermaestro direttore Siegfried Behrensmaestro del coro Stanley Muschamp

The dance of the hours(Offenbach, fromLa gioconda: Philadelphia (Philadelphia Operatic Society)4/28/11: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 20154/29/11: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 14154/29/11: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Co.), hour: 2015

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5/01/11: Il trovatore (English): Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour:2015: staging Charles H. Jones

Il conte di Luna Harry LuckstoneLeonora Jane AbercrombieAzucena Louise le BaronManrico Leonid Samoloff

Ferrando Enzo BozzanoInes Clara WatsonRuiz Fred Rultz

maestro direttore Hugo Reisenfeld

5/02/11: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015dates are unknown, but featured in the alternate cast were:

Leonora Bianche Ray EdwardsAzucena Mary RogersManrico Paul Bleyden

5/03/11: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 14155/03/11: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 20155/03/11: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage manager Edward Stuart Grant

The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B.Clarence C. BrintonCaptain Corcoran G. Plantou MiddletonRalph Rackstraw Edward Shippen van Leer

Dick Deadeye, able seamanF. Ashby WallaceBill Bobstay, boatswain Joseph Patterson Sims

Tom Tucker R. N. LandrethSergeant of Marines John Clark Sims

Josephine Helen MacNameeHebe Lauretta Hancock

Little Buttercup Elsie Morris Brintonmaestro direttore Selden Miller

5/04/11: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/04/11: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 20155/05/11: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/05/11: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 20155/06/11: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 14155/06/11: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/06/11: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 20155/08/11: Thaïs(English): Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Thaïs Lois EwellAthanaël Giuseppe Picco

Nicias Misha FerenzoPalémon Morton HorodasCrobyle Venise MorrisMyrtale Katharine GrantAlbine Zoe Fulton

Le serviteur de Nicias Cancleff Coopermaestro direttore Hugo Riesenfeld

5/09/11: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015dates are unknown, but featured in the alternate cast were:

Thaïs Edith HelenaAthanaël Louis Kreidler

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5/10/11: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 14155/10/11: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 20155/11/11: Sarrona(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music, hour: 2015: stage manager William Perry; ballet director C.

Ellwood Carpenter; chorus from Philadelphia Operatic Society and Mendelssohn Club

The prologue Elsie BakerPhyiene, a Greek dancerMarie Rappold

Accaro, an Indian king Frank PollockSarrona, his queen Effie Stewart

The faithful slave Jerome P. UhlLeader of mob Remy Marsano

roles unknown: Helen MacNameeMiss FriedmannMrs. Wilbourne

maestro direttore Wassili Lepsmaestro del coro Stanley Muschamp

Helen Rigby

Sarronawas preceeded by Wagner’sCentennial Marchand theSakuntalaoverture.

5/11/11: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 20155/12/11: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 20155/13/11: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 14155/13/11: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (Aborn English Grand Opera Company), hour: 20159/18/11: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (New York Casino), hour: 2030

Dick Deadeye, able seamanDe Wolf Hopperroles unknown: Edith Decker

George J. McFarlaneEugene CowlesViola GilletteRobert GrahamArthur AldridgeAlice Brady

Little Buttercup Fay Templeton

H. M. S. Pinaforeran for one week with matinées on Wednesday and Saturdays.

10/02/11: Zigeunerliebe(Franz Lehár), English: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (A. H. Woods), hour: 2015: with the RoyalHungarian Gypsy Band

Zorika Marguerite SylvaNiklas Henry E. Dixey

Jozsi Arthur AlbroFedor Carl HaydnLima Frances DemarestMikel George L. BickelLilia Dorothy Webb

Kaspar Robert PitkinMoschu Albert Hart


Gypsy Loveran for two weeks with matinées on Wednesday and Saturdays.

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10/25/11: Carmen(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society): chorus of 200; ballet of 32;Carnatius Mandolin Club; orchestra of 60; stage director Edward S. Grant; ballet director C. EllwoodCarpenter

Carmen Nancis France CranmerDon José George RothermelEscamillo Bourke Sullivan

Micaëla Alice GlassmireFr asquita Helma FritzMercédès Eva Allen Ritter

Zuniga Charles R. ButchenhartMoralès Morris Hall Ware

Le Dancaïre H. S. MacWhorterLe Remendado Samuel H. Lipschutz


première danseuse Helen Rigby


Carmen Mary GardenDon José Charles DalmorèsEscamillo Hector Dufranne


Zuniga Henri ScottMoralès Désiré Defrère


Lillas Pastia Jean de Keysermaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

Rosina Galli

11/04/11: Le nozze di Figaro: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 1400

Il conte d’Almaviva Mario SammarcoLa contessa d’Almaviva Carolina White

Susanna Alice ZeppilliFigaro Gustave Huberdeau

Cherubino Maggie TeyteMarcellina Louise Bérat

Doctor Bartolo Pompilio MalatestaDon Basilio Edmond WarneryDon Curzio Emilio Venturini

Antonio Constantin NicolayBarbarina Mabel Riegelman

Prima giovinetta Eleonore FishSeconda giovinetta Cornelia Chapman


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11/04/11: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Il conte di Luna Alfredo CostaAzucena Marta WittkowskaLeonora Rachel Frease-GreenManrico Ellison van Hoose

Ferrando Constantin NicolayInes Minnie EgenerRuiz Palmiro Aleotti

Un vecchio zingaro Nicolo FossettaUn messaggero Rocco Franzini


11/06/11: Cendrillon(Massenet): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000

Cendrillon Maggie TeyteLa Prince Charmant Mary Garden

Madame de la Haltière Louise BératPandolfe Hector Dufranne

La fée Jenny DufauNoémie Mabel Riegelman

Dorothée Marie CavanLe roi Henri Scott

Le doyen de la faculté Francesco DaddiLe surintendant des plaisirs Désiré Defrère

Le Premier Ministre Constantin NicolayLa voix du heraut Charles Meyermaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

Rosina Galli

11/07/11: Thaïs: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Thaïs Mary GardenAthanaël Hector Dufranne

Nicias Edmond WarneryPalémon Constantin NicolayCrobyle Marie CavanMyrtale Giuseppina GiaconiaAlbine Giuseppina Giaconia

Le serviteur de Nicias Nicolo Fossettamaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

11/08/11: Samson et Dalila: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour:2000: stage director Fernand Almanz



Un vieillard hébreu Gustave HuberdeauUn messager philistin Emilio Venturini

Premier Philistin Joseph DemortierDeuxième Philistin Désiré Defrère


première danseuse etoile Rosina Galli

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11/09/11: Le nozze di Figaro: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Il conte d’Almaviva Mario SammarcoLa contessa d’Almaviva Carolina White

Susanna Alice ZeppilliFigaro Gustave Huberdeau

Cherubino Maggie TeyteMarcellina Louise Bérat


11/10/11: Die Walküre: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.), hour: 2000

Siegmund Charles DalmorèsHunding Henri Scott

Wotan Clarence WhitehillSieglinde Jane Osborn-Hannah

Brünnhilde Olive FremstadFricka Jeanne Gerville-Réache

Gerhilde Rachel Frease-GreenOrtlinde Alice Eversman

Waltraute Marta WittkowskaSchwertleite Giuseppina Giaconia

Helmwige Jenny DufauSiegrune Marie Cavan

Grimgerde Frances IngramRoßweiße Charlotte Guernsey

maestro direttore Alfred Szendrei

11/11/11: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Metroplitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400


Nicias Edmond WarneryPalémon Gustave HuberdeauCrobyle Marie CavanMyrtale Giuseppina GiaconiaAlbine Giuseppina Giaconia


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11/11/11: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metroplitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; stage manager Joseph Engel; assistant stage managerCarlo Muzio, Fritz Hugo Steglich; technical director William H. Bairstow; scenic artist Julian L.Macdonald; chief electrician George Fuller; master of properties Charles Gullickson

Santuzza Carolina WhiteLola Frances Ingram

Turiddu Emilio VenturiniAlfio Armand Crabbé

Lucia Giuseppina Giaconiamaestro direttore Attilio Parelli


Nedda Alice ZeppilliCanio Mario GuardabassiTonio Alfredo CostaBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Armand Crabbé


11/13/11: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metroplitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

Carmen Mary GardenDon José Charles DalmorèsEscamillo Gustave Huberdeau





11/15/11: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz

Lord Enrico Asthon Mario SammarcoMiss Lucia Luisa Tetrazzini

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodAmedeo BassiRaimondo Bidebent Henri ScottLord Arturo Buclaw Emilio Venturini

Alisa Minnie EgenerNormanno Francesco Daddi


11/16/11: Samson et Dalila: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)


Le grand-prêtre de Dagon Hector DufranneUn vieillard hébreu Gustave Huberdeau


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11/17/11: Cendrillon: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz; scenery Brüder Kautsky and Rottonora; costumes ÖesterreichischesTheater Kostüm und Dekorations Atelier, Wien;Mme. Freisinger, New York; stage manager JosephEngel; assistant stage manager Carlo Muzio, Fritz Hugo Steglich, technical director William H.Bairstow; scenic artist Julian L. Macdonald; chief electrician George Fuller; master of propertiesCharles Gullickson








The second act ofCendrillon was delayed due to the late arrival of Mary Garden whose train from New Yorkwas delayed by the wreck of another train. The second act would not commence until 10:10 p.m., so to fill thetime there was an impromptu recital: Maggie Teyte sang ‘‘L’invitation au voyage’’ (Duparc), ‘‘J’ai pleure enreve’’ (Georges Hue), and two modern songs in English ‘‘ Down in the forest’’ and ‘‘An angel roving spotless.’’Hector Dufranne sang an air fromLakmé. Mabel Riegelman sang an aria fromDer Freischützand the Americansong ‘‘The brass band’’ (Arthur Fickenscher). Jenny Dufau sang ‘‘Il était un roi de Thulé’’ and the Jewel songfrom Faust.

11/18/11: La traviata: Philadelphia, Metroplitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400

Violetta Valéry Luisa TetrazziniAlfredo Germont Amedeo BassiGiorgio Germont Mario Sammarco

Flora Bervoix Minnie EgenerIl barone Douphol Nicolo Fossetta

Il dottor Grenvil Michele SampieriAnnina Louise Bérat

Gastone di Letorières Emilio VenturiniIl marchese d’Obigny Constantin Nicolay

Giuseppe Santo MandelliUn domestico di Flora Vittorio Navarini


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11/18/11: Hänsel und Gretel(English): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand OperaCompany), hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; stage manager Joseph Engel; assistant stagemanager Carlo Muzio, Fritz Hugo Steglich; technical director William H. Bairstow; scenic artistJulian L. Macdonald; chief electrician George Fuller; master of properties Charles Gullickson

Hänsel Marie CavanGretel Mabel Riegelman

Die Knusperhexe Marta WittkowskaMutter Frances Ingram

Vater Armand CrabbéSandmännchen Denise L. MorrisTaumännchen Eleonore Fish


After this performance the Chicago-Philadelphia Opera touring company performed in Cleveland then returnedto Chicago with occasional performances in Milwaukee. In late January the company traveled to St. Paul, St.Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and back to Philadelphia.

11/21/11: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000:stage director Jules Speck; set design Vittorio Rota, Mario Sala, Angelo Parravicini; costume designBlaschke & Cie; Maison Chiappa

La gioconda Emmy DestinnEnzo Grimaldo Enrico CarusoLaura Adorno Florence Wickham


La cieca Theodora OrridgeZuàne Bernard BéguéIsèpo Pietro Audisio


11/23/11: The wedding trip(Reginald de Koven): Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre

Ezigetti Charles AngeloIgnace George Madison

Candide Perle BartiCeleste Dorothy Morton

Fritzi Christine NielsenFelix J. J. McCloskey

Captain Josef Arthur CunninghamCorporal Johann John RogersCorporal Oscar Martin DeLaney

Drummer Boy Erwin EmmerAza Dorothy Jardon

Lotta Fritzie von BusingLieutenant Niklas William Brandt

Lieutenant Lea Frank BarlowMajor Vathek Albert Busby

Basille Gwen DubaryMafta Edward Martindel

Willie Barnett Joseph Phillipsmaestro direttore unknown

11/24/11: The wedding trip: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre

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11/25/11: The wedding trip: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre, matinée11/25/11: The wedding trip: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre11/27/11: The wedding trip: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre11/28/11: The wedding trip: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre11/28/11: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, NY), hour: 2000



Goro Angelo BadàIl principe Yamadori Pietro Audisio




11/29/11: The wedding trip: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre, matinée11/29/11: The wedding trip: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre11/30/11: The wedding trip: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre, matinée11/30/11: The wedding trip: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre12/01/11: The wedding trip: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre12/02/11: The wedding trip: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre, matinée12/02/11: The wedding trip: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre12/05/11: Götterdämmerung: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 1930

Siegfried Carl BurrianGunther Hermann Weil

Hagen Putnam GriswoldAlberich not performed

Brünnhilde Johanna GadskiGutrune Rita Fornia

Waltraute not performedWo glinde Lenora Sparkes

Wellgunde Bella AltenFloßhilde Florence Wickham


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12/12/11: Lobetanz(Ludwig Thuille): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., NY), hour: 2015

Lobetanz Hermann JadlowkerPrincess Johanna Gadski

King William HinshawGirl Lenora SparkesGirl Anna Case

Forester Basil RuysdaelPrisoner Basil RuysdaelPrisoner Julius BayerPrisoner Paolo AnanianPrisoner Ludwig Burgstaller

Old prisoner Stefen BuckreusYouth Lambert MurphyJudge Herbert Witherspoon

Hangman Oscar Sanneerole unknown Marie Mattfeldrole unknown Lucia Fornaroli


12/19/11: Tosca: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2015

Floria Tosca Geraldine FarrarMario Cavaradossi Riccardo Martin

Il barone Scarpia Antonio ScottiCesare Angelotti Giulio Rossi

Il sagrestano Antonio Pini-CorsiSpoletta Angelo Badà

Sciarrone Bernard BéguéUn pastore Jeanne Maubourg

Un carceriere Paolo Ananianmaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini

19121/09/12: La bohème: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2015

Mimì Alma GluckRodolfo Enrico Caruso

Marcello Dinh GillySchaunard Adamo Didur

Colline Andrés de SegurolaBenoît Paolo Ananian

Alcindoro Georges BourgeoisMusetta Lenora Sparkes

Parpignol Pietro AudisioSergente dei doganieri Vincenzo Reschiglian


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1/16/12: Siegfried: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1930

Siegfried Heinrich HenselMime Albert Reiss

Der Wanderer Putnam GriswoldAlberich Otto Goritz

Fafner Basil RuysdaelErda Margarete Matzenauer

Brünnhilde Olive FremstadStimme des WaldvogelsLenora Sparkes


1/20/12: The lost prince(Philip H. Goepp): Philadelphia, Witherspoon Hall (Philadelphia Branch of InternationalKindergarten Union), hour: 1415

1/23/12: Lohengrin: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1945

Heinrich der Vogler Herbert WitherspoonLohengrin Hermann Jadlowker

Elsa von Brabant Emmy DestinnFriedrich von Telramund Otto Goritz

Ortrud Margarete MatzenauerDer Heerrufer des Königs Hermann Weil


Julius Bayer

Ludwig BurgstallerAdolf FuhrmannMarcel Reiner

Vier Edelknaben

Inga Örner

Lillia SnellingRosina van DyckHenriette Wakefield


1/25/12: Lucia di Lammermoor(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 2000:stage director Edward S. Grant; costumes Van Horn & Son; wigs and make-up A. M. Buch & Co.

Miss Lucia Helma FritzSir Edgardo di RavenswoodHenry Gurney

Lord Enrico Asthon Horace R. HoodRaimondo Bidebent Henry HotzLord Arturo Buclaw John H. Cromie, Jr.

Alisa Elizabeth SmithNormanno L. Mulford Taylor


Ballet of the four seasons(from I vespri siciliani): Philadelphia (Philadelphia Operatic Society): ballet master C.Ellwood Carpenter

Helen Rigby, corps de ballet of 80maestro direttore Siegfried Behrens

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1/30/12: Versiegelt(Leo Blech): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, NY), hour: 2000:

Braun Hermann WeilElse Bella Alten

Fr au Gertrud Johanna GadskiFr au Willmers Marie Mattfeld

Bertel Hermann JadlowkerLampe Otto Goritz

Nachbar Knote Marcel ReinerDer Schützenkönig Basil RuysdaelDer Nachtwächter unknown


Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Canio Enrico CarusoNedda Rita ForniaTonio Dinh GillyBeppe Angelo BadàSilvio Vincenzo Reschiglian


2/12/12: Quo vadis: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz; Act I scenery painted by Frank Platzky, New York; Act II painted byPaul Paquereau, Paris; Act III, 1 painted by Julian L. Macdonald, of Chicago Grand Opera; Act III, 2painted by Paul Paquereau; Act IV painted by Gates & Morange, New York

Lygie Jenny DufauEunice Alice ZeppilliPoppee Mary JungPetrone Clarence Whitehill

Nero Henri ScottVinicius Mario Guardabassi Charles Dalmorès

Ursus J. Darwin HouckCroton Stellan WindrowChilon Hector DufrannePierre Gustave HuberdeauSporus Armand CrabbéDemas Constantin Nicolay

The young Nerva Emilio VenturiniIras Marie Cavan

Myriam Louise BératThe mother Alice Eversman

Nazairie Mabel RiegelmanLilith Minnie Egener

Psyllia Charlotte CarewA young christian Minnie Egener

Tigellin Michele SampieriVitellius Charles Meyer

Vatinuius Désiré DefrèreA centurian Nicolo Fossetta

Theocles Charles MeyerA sailor Jean de KeyserA slave Joseph Demortier


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2/13/12: Carmen: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Carmen Mary GardenDon José Charles DalmorèsEscamillo Maurice Renaud






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2/14/12: I gioielli della Madonna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand OperaCompany), hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; scenery Öesterreichisches Theater Kostümund Dekorations Atelier, Wien; costumes Freisinger, New York; stage manager Joseph Engel;assistant stage manager Carlo Muzio, Fritz Hugo Steglich; technical director William H. Bairstow;scenic artist Julian I. Macdonald; chief electrician George Fuller; master of properties CharlesGullickson

Gennaro Amedeo BassiCarmela Louise BératMaliella Carolina WhiteRafaele Mario Sammarco

Biaso Francesco DaddiCiccillo Emilio Venturini

Stella Jenny DufauConcetta Mabel Riegelman

Serena Marta WittkowskaGrazia Rosina Galli

Totonno Edmond WarneryRocco Nicolo Fossetta

A macaroni vendor Michele ZwibachA toy balloon vendor Giuseppe Minerva

A water vendor Emma RuhlA water vendor Roberto ArdoniA flower vendor Minnie Egener

An ice cream vendor Palmiro AleottiA fruit vendor Giovanni Lugano

First monk Frank PreischSecond monk Friedrich Schorr

The town crier Luigi AlbertieriA young girl Minnie Egener

First young man Nicolo FossettaSecond young manSanto Mandelli

Third young man Désiré DefrèreFirst anne Minnie Egener

Second anne Denise MorrisThird anne Cornelia Chapman

The blind man Michele SampieriA peasant woman Giuseppina Giaconia

First girl Rose HeringerSecond girl Eleonore Fish

First cammorist Luigi AlbertieriSecond cammorist Vittorio NavariniFirst morra player Santo Mandelli

Second morra player Désiré DefrèreThe father Michele Sampieri

A young nurse Giuseppina Giaconiamaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

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2/15/12: Die Walküre: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Siegmund [Charles Dalmorès]Hunding Henri Scott


Brünnhilde Margarete MatzenauerFricka Marta Wittkowska


Waltraute unknownSchwertleite Giuseppina Giaconia


Grimgerde unknownRoßweiße unknown



Hoffmann Charles DalmorèsNicklausse Marta Wittkowska

Olympia Alice ZeppilliAntonia Jenny DufauGiulietta Jenny Dufau Carolina White

Coppélius Maurice RenaudDr. Miracle Maurice RenaudDapertutto Maurice Renaud

Fr anz Francesco DaddiPitichinaccio Emilio Venturini

La mère d’Antonia Giuseppina GiaconiaSpalanzani Armand Crabbé

Hermann Nicolo FossettaLuther Michele Sampieri


2/17/12: Cendrillon: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400







Rosina Galli

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2/17/12: La traviata: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz; stage manager Joseph Engel; assistant stage manager Carlo Muzio,Fritz Hugo Steglich; technical director William H. Bairstow; scenic artist Julian L. Macdonald; chiefelectrician George Fuller; master of properties Charles Gullickson

Violetta Valéry Alice ZeppilliAlfredo Germont Amedeo BassiGiorgio Germont Alfredo Costa


Il dottor Grenvil Michele SampieriAnnina Louise Bérat

Gastone di Letorières Emilio VenturiniIl marchese d’Obigny Constantin Nicolay

Giuseppe Santo MandelliUn domestico di Flora Vittorio Navarini


2/19/12: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000

Santuzza Berta MorenaLola Frances Ingram

Turiddu Charles DalmorèsAlfio Alfredo Costa

Lucia Giuseppina Giaconiamaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

Ballet Divertissement: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

première danseuse etoile Rosina Gallimaestro direttore Attilio Parelli


Nedda Alice ZeppilliCanio Amedeo BassiTonio Mario SammarcoBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Alfredo Costa


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2/20/12: Cendrillon: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz; scenery by Brüder Kautsky and Rottonora, Wien; costumes byÖesterreichisches Theater Kostüm und Dekorations Atelier, Wien,Mme. Freisinger, New York;scenic artist James Fox; master machinist F. Hosli; chief electrician F. G. Gaus; master of propertiesCharles Ross; chief engineer Wm. G. Scattergood; costumière Louise Musaeus; coiffeur W. Punzel




Dorothée Marie CavanLe roi Gustave Huberdeau




2/21/12: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri


Nicias Charles DalmorèsPalémon Gustave HuberdeauCrobyle Marie CavanMyrtale Mabel RiegelmanAlbine Louise Bérat

Le serviteur de Nicias Constantin Nicolaymaestro direttore Marcel Charlier Cleofonte Campanini

maestro del coro Pietro Nepoti

2/22/12: I gioielli della Madonna: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Gennaro Amedeo BassiCarmela Louise BératMaliella Carolina White



Serena Marta WittkowskaTotonno Edmond Warnery

A flower vendor Minnie EgenerRafaele Mario Sammarco

Second monk Friedrich SchorrA peasant woman Giuseppina Giaconiamaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

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2/23/12: Tristan und Isolde: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 1945: stage director Fernand Almanz

Isolde Minnie Saltzman-StevensTristan Charles Dalmorès

Brangäne Eleanora de CisnerosKurwenal Clarence Whitehill

König Marke Henri ScottMelot Armand Crabbé

Ein junger Seemann unknownEin Hirt Emilio Venturini

Der Steuermann Friedrich Schorrmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

2/24/12: Natoma: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400:stage director Fernand Almanz

Natoma Mary GardenBarbara Carolina White

Lieutenant Paul Merrill George HamlinDon Francisco Henri Scott



Josè Castro Frank PreischChiquita Rosina GalliA voice Minnie Egener


2/24/12: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

ll duca di Mantova Amedeo BassiRigoletto Alfredo Costa

Gilda Jenny DufauSparafucile Henri ScottMaddalena Frances Ingram

Il conte di Monterone Berardo BerardiMatteo Borsa Emilio Venturini

La contessa di Ceprano Minnie EgenerGiovanna Louise Bérat

Il cavaliere Marullo Nicolo FossettaIl conte di Ceprano Michele Sampieri

Pa g gio della duchessaMinnie Egenermaestro direttore Ettore Perosio

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2/26/12: Samson et Dalila: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour:2000: stage director Fernand Almanz


Le grand-prêtre de Dagon Maurice RenaudAbimélech Armand Crabbé

Un vieillard hébreu Gustave HuberdeauUn messager philistin Emilio Venturini

Premier Philistin Joseph DemortierDeuxième Philistin Nicolo Fossetta



2/27/12: Il segreto di Susanna: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; chorus masters Pietro Nepoti, Achille Clivio; balletmaster Luigi Albertieri; scenic artist James Fox; master machinist F. Hosli; chief electrician F. G.Gaus; master of properties Charles Ross; chief engineer Wm. G. Scattergood; costumière LouiseMusaeus; coiffeur W. Punzel

La contessa SusannaCarolina WhiteIl conte Gil Alfredo Costa

Sante Francesco Daddimaestro direttore Ettore Perosio

Le jongleur de Notre Dame: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.)


Un moine sculpteur Constantin NicolayUn moine peintre Gustave Huberdeau


Un loustic Jean de KeyserUn ivrogne Désiré Defrère


2/28/12: I dispettosi amanti: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House

Rosaura Alice ZeppilliFlorindo Amedeo Bassi

Don Fulgenzio Mario SammarcoDonna Angelica Louise Bérat


The world première ofA lover’s quarrelby Attilio Parelli had been announced for Philadelphia on February 28,but was postponed.

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2/28/12: Il segreto di Susanna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz

La contessa SusannaCarolina WhiteIl conte Gil Alfredo Costa




Un moine sculpteur Constantin NicolayUn moine peintre Henri Scott


Un loustic Jean de KeyserUn ivrogne Désiré Defrère


2/29/12: Lohengrin: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Heinrich der Vogler Henri ScottLohengrin Charles Dalmorès

Elsa von Brabant unknownFriedrich von Telramund Clarence Whitehill

Ortrud Eleanora de CisnerosDer Heerrufer des Königs Armand Crabbé

Vier brabantische Edlen Friedrich Schorr, ...maestro direttore Alfred Szendrei

3/01/12: I gioielli della Madonna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand OperaCompany), hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz






A flower vendor Minnie EgenerFirst monk Frank Preisch

Second monk Friedrich SchorrA peasant woman Giuseppina Giaconiamaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

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3/02/12: Faust: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400:stage director Fernand Almanz

Le docteur Faust Charles DalmorèsMéphistophélès Henri Scott

Marguerite Mary GardenSiébel Marta Wittkowska

Valentin Hector DufranneDame Marthe Schwertlein Louise Bérat

Wa gner Désiré Defrèremaestro direttore Marcel Charlier

3/02/12: Il segreto di Susanna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

La contessa SusannaAlice ZeppilliIl conte Gil Alfredo Costa


Ballet Divertissement: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)



Nedda Jane Osborn-HannahCanio Mario GuardabassiTonio Alfredo CostaBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Armand Crabbé


3/04/12: Pelléas et Mélisande: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz


Geneviève Louise BératArkel Gustave Huberdeau

Yniold Mabel RiegelmanUn médicin Armand Crabbé


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3/05/12: I gioielli della Madonna: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; scenery by Öesterreichisches Theater Kostüm undDekorations Atelier, Wien; costumes Freisinger, New York; scenic artist James Fox; mastermachinist F. Hosli; chief electrician F. G. Gaus; master of properties Charles Ross; chief engineerWm. G. Scattergood; costumière Louise Musaeus; coiffeur W. Punzel







A water vendor Emma RuhlA water vendor Roberto ArdoniA flower vendor Minnie Egener


First monk Frank PreischSecond monk Friedrich Schorr

The town crier Luigi AlbertieriA young lady Minnie Egener

First young man Santo MandelliSecond young manDésiré Defrère

First anne Minnie EgenerSecond anne Denise Morris

Third anne Cornelia ChapmanThe blind man Michele Sampieri

A peasant woman Giuseppina GiaconiaFirst girl Rose Heringer

Second girl Eleonore FishFirst cammorist Luigi Albertieri

Second cammorist Vittorio NavariniFirst morra player Santo Mandelli

Second morra player Désiré DefrèreThe father Michele Sampieri

A young nurse Giuseppina GiaconiaA vendor Giovanni Rodondi


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3/06/12: I dispettosi amanti(Attilio Parelli), world première: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000




Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Hoffmann Charles DalmorèsNicklausse Marta Wittkowska

Olympia Jenny DufauGiulietta Carolina WhiteLindorf Armand CrabbéAntonia Alice Zeppilli

La mère d’Antonia Frances Ingram

Maurice Renaud

CoppéliusDapertuttoDr. Miracle


Fr anzSpalanzani Constantin Nicolay

Schlémil Armand CrabbéCrespel Constantin Nicolay

role unknown Nicolo Fossettamaestro direttore Marcel Charlier

3/07/12: Il segreto di Susanna: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

La contessa SusannaAlice ZeppilliIl conte Gil Alfredo Costa

Sante Francesco Daddi

Pa gliacci: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Nedda Jane Osborn-HannahCanio Mario GuardabassiTonio Alfredo CostaBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Armand Crabbé


unknown ballet: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

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3/08/12: Aida: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Fernand Almanz


Aida Carolina WhiteRadamès Amedeo Bassi

Ramfis Henri ScottAmonasro Hector Dufranne

Un messaggero Emilio VenturiniUna sacerdotessa Mabel Riegelmanmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

Rosina Galli

3/09/12: Die Walküre: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.), hour: 1400

Siegmund Charles DalmorèsHunding Henri Scott


Brünnhilde Margarete MatzenauerFricka Marta Wittkowska


Waltraute Marta WittkowskaSchwertleite Giuseppina Giaconia


Grimgerde Frances IngramRoßweiße Emma Ruhl


3/09/12: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:Fernand Almanz

Carmen Maria GayDon José Mario GuardabassiEscamillo Hector Dufranne




Lillas Pastia Jean de Keysermaestro direttore Marcel Charlier


3/11/12: I gioielli della Madonna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.),hour: 2000: 2/14/12

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3/12/12: Thaïs: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri


Nicias Charles DalmorèsPalémon Gustave HuberdeauCrobyle Mabel RiegelmanMyrtale Marie CavanAlbine Louise Bérat


Cénobites

Emilio Venturini

Nicolo FossettaDésiré DefrèreMarius SperteCharles MeyerJean de KeyserJoseph DemortierMichele SampieriM. SteffaniM. Baumann

maestro direttore Cleofonte Campaninimaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti

3/13/12: I gioielli della Madonna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000:2/14/12

3/14/12: Carmen: Baltimore, (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Carmen Mary GardenDon José Charles DalmorèsEscamillo unknown





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3/15/12: Lohengrin: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Heinrich der Vogler Gustave HuberdeauLohengrin Hermann Jadlowker

Elsa von Brabant Jane Osborn-HannahFriedrich von Telramund Otto Goritz

Ortrud Eleanora de CisnerosDer Heerrufer des Königs Armand Crabbé


Friedrich Schorr

KostinskyYassinFrank Preisch

Vier Edelknaben

Minnie Egener

[Agnes] BerryMarie CavanFrances Ingram


3/16/12: I dispettosi amanti(Italian): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand OperaCompany), hour: 1400: stage director Fernand Almanz; costumes Freisinger, New York; stagemanager Joseph Engel; assistant stage manager Carlo Muzio, Fritz Hugo Steglich; technical directorWilliam H. Bairstow; scenic artist Julian L. Macdonald; chief electrician George Fuller; master ofproperties Charles Gullickson


Don Fulgenzio Mario SammarcoDonna Angelica Louise Bératmaestro direttore Attilio Parelli Cleofonte Campanini

Hänsel und Gretel(English): Philadelphia, (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Peter Armand CrabbéGertrud Frances IngramHänsel Marie CavanGretel Mabel Riegelman

Die Knusperhexe Marta Wittkowska

Jenny DufauSandmännchenTaumännchen


International Ballet Divertissement: Philadelphia (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company): ballet masterLuigi Albertieri

première danseuse etoile Rosina Gallimaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

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3/16/12: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz

Hoffmann Edmond WarneryNicklausse Marta Wittkowska

Olympia Jenny DufauAntonia Jenny Dufau

Giulietta Carolina WhiteLindorf Désiré Defrère

Coppélius Hector DufranneDr. Miracle Gustave HuberdeauDapertutto Armand Crabbé


Fr anzPitichinaccio Emilio Venturini


Hermann Nicolo FossettaSchlémil Désiré Defrère




Il re d’Egitto Berardo BerardiAmneris Maria Gay

Aida Carmen MelisRadamès Giovanni Zenatello

Ramfis Henri ScottAmonasro Hector Dufranne


Rosina Galli

3/19/12: I gioielli della Madonna: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000:3/05/12

3/20/12: I gioielli della Madonna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 1400:3/11/12

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3/20/12: Louise: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz


La mère Louise BératLa père Hector Dufranne

La glaneuse de charbonDenise MorrisLe bricoleur Constantin Nicolay

La laitière Minnie EgenerLe chiffonnier Gustave Huberdeau

Le premier gardien de la paix Joseph DemortierLe deuxième gardien de la paixJean de Keyser

Le gavroche Mabel RiegelmanLa balayeuse Charlotte Carew

Le peintre Nicolo FossettaLe sculpteur Désiré Defrère

Le chansonnier Emilio VenturiniLe premier philosophe Armand Crabbé

Le jeune poète Marius SperteLe deuxième philosopheCharles Meyer

L’apprentie Gabrielle KlinkL’étudiant Jean de Keyser

Le rempailleuse Giuseppina GiaconiaLa marchande d’artichauts Charlotte Carew

Le marchand de carottesEmilio VenturiniLa marchande de mouronAgnes Berry

A dancer Rosina GalliBlanche Minnie Egener

Marguerite Adelaide CarrollSuzanne Mina Chumsland

Gertrude Giuseppina GiaconiaCamille Agnes Berry

Irma Marie CavanÉlise Denise Morris

Jeanne Rose WilsonHenrietta May Grant

Madeleine Mina ChumslandLe marchand d’habits Francesco Daddi

La première Charlotte CarewAn errand girl Mabel Riegelman

Le pape des fous Edmond WarneryMarchand Désiré Defrère



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3/22/12: Tristan und Isolde: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Isolde Johanna GadskiTristan Charles Dalmorès



Ein Hirt Emilio VenturiniDer Steuermann Friedrich Schorrmaestro direttore unknown

3/25/12: Aida: Washington, D. C.(Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), matinée

Aida Alice EversmanAmneris Eleanora de Cisneros

Una sacerdotessa Agnes BerryRadamès Amedeo Bassi

Amonasro Hector DufranneRamfis Henri Scott

3/25/12: Natoma: Washington, D. C.(Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Natoma Mary GardenLieutenant Paul Merrill Amedeo BassiJuan Bautista Alvarado Mario Sammarco

3/26/12: Louise: Washington, D. C.(Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Louise Mary GardenLa mère Louise Bérat

Julien Charles DalmorèsLa père Hector Dufranne

. . .maestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

4/15/12: Die Fledermaus(English): Philadelphia, Adelphi Theatre (Messrs. Shubert), hour: 2030

Alfred Frank RushworthAdele Fritzi Scheff

Rosalinde Hazel CoxGabriel von Eisenstein George Anderson

Dr. Blind Milbury RyderDr. Falke Morgan Williams

Fr ank John E. HassardPrinz Orlofsky Edith Bradford

Ida Jessie StonerFr osch Frank Farrington

role unknown Josephine Brandellmaestro direttore unknown

Die Fledermausran for two weeks with matinées on Saturdays at 2:30 p.m.

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Mimì Geraldine FarrarRodolfo Riccardo Martin

Marcello Antonio ScottiSchaunard Adamo Didur


Alcindoro Antonio Pini-CorsiMusetta Bella Alten

Parpignol Angelo BadàSergente dei doganieri Vincenzo Reschiglian


4/19/12: Aida: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Il re d’Egitto William HinshawAmneris Louise Homer



Un messaggero Angelo BadàUna sacerdotessa Lenora Sparkesmaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

Lucia Fornaroli

4/22/12: A wild goose(Willard Spencer): Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Fred C. Whitney), hour: 2015: dir. Al M. Holbrook

Violetta Ethel JacksonMiss Van Reusselaer Mabel Weeks

Amarilla Greta RisleyDick David ReeseBilly Harrison Garrett

Turnipe Will PhilbrickCaptain Bobstay George Richards

General Jinks, U. S. A. Frank BelcherPuff, Irish corporal, U. S. A. John Mayon

Baron von Blow Bernhardt NiemeyerPrince Toto Lloyd Montgomery

Prince Gogo Fred C. HolmesPrince Durego Jack Perby

Prince Amaranth Joseph RobertsPrince Botzen L. Wiltbank Keene

Prince Kalomitz Joseph Campbellmaestro direttore unknown

A wild goosepremièred at the Lyric Theatre and ran all week with matinées on Wed. and Sat. at 2:15 p.m.

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4/25/12: Martha (English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society): stage director Edward S.Grant; ballet master C. Ellwood Carpenter; costumes Van Horn & Son; wigs and make-up A. M.Buch & Co.; interpolated ballet in the Fair scene to music of "Three Dances from Nell Gwynn" byEdward German

Lady Harriet Durham Elizabeth C. ClaytonNancy Barbara Schaefer

Lord Tristan Mickleford Henry HotzLyonel Harry Davis Joseph S. McGlynn

Plumkett Bourke SullivanDer Richter zu Richmond Charles D. Cuzner


Incidental dances: Helen Rigley, corps de ballet

4/29/12: A wild goose: Philadelphia, Adelphi Theatre, hour: 2020: 4/22/12A wild goosemoved to the Adelphi Theatre and ran all week with matinées on Thursday and Saturday.

5/06/12: A wild goose: Philadelphia, Adelphi Theatre, hour: 2020: 4/22/12 except:

Miss Van Reusselaer Perle Bartimaestro direttore A. de Novellis

A wild gooseran all week with matinées on Thursday and Saturday at 2:20 p.m.

5/15/12: Iolanthe: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

The Lord Chancellor Charles Francis WardLord Mountararat F. Ashby Wallace

Earl Tolloller J. Lawson Weatherly, Jr.Private Willis, of the Grenadier GuardsHoward B. Stavers

Strephon, an arcadian shepherdG. Plantou MiddletonQueen of the fairies Elsie Morris Brinton

Iolanthe Sarah Elizabeth PhilipsCelia Dorothy S. GreenLeila Mrs. E. H. Cathrall, Jr.Fleta Sue M. Heberton

Phyllis, an arcadian shepherdessEthel Marriott Jonesmaestro direttore unknown

5/16/12: Iolanthe: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/17/12: Iolanthe: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/18/12: Iolanthe: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

10/14/12: Zigeunerliebe(Franz Lehár), English: Philadelphia, Garrick Theatre (A. H. Woods)

Zorika Phyllis PartingtonJozsi Arthur Albro

roles unknown: Arthur AlbroLuela LuceyPhil BransonMona DesmondHarry HermsenNona MalliRaymond CraneCharles FultonLucie Mitchell


Gypsy Loveran for two weeks with matinées on Wednesday and Saturdays.

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10/15/12: The dove of peace(Walter Damrosch), world première: Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre

Hon. Terence Donnybrook Robert LettWillie Petruchio Perkins Frank Pollock

Hildegarde Tyler Ruth ThorpSir Hannibal Hobbs Ernest Torrence

Capt. Paul Jones, U.S.N.Thomas HardieArabella Smithson Jessie Bradbury

Saffron Kidd William WelpJuanita Mendoza Henriette Wakefield

Don Ramon Casava Fred WaelderMcGinnis Jack Henderson

Sergeant Cortez Lloyd LaurenceHoppy Toddy George Burke Scott


The dove of Peaceran for two weeks with matinées on Wednesday and Saturdays.

10/24/12: Der Freischütz(English): Philadelphia (Philadelphia Operatic Society): stage director Leo W. Wright; balletmaster C. Ellwood Carpenter; costumes Van Horn & Son; wigs and make-up A. M. Buch & Co.;ballet intorduced to last act "Inviation to the dance"; "Village band" in first act from the PhiladelphiaBoys’ Orchestra, John Curtis, Jr.

Ottokar Morris Hall WareKuno Horace R. Hood

Agathe Alma Weisshaar (Bianca Saroya)Ännchen Jennie G. KneedlerKaspar Frederick Ayres

Max George RothermelKilian Charles D. CuznerSamiel Frank G. Ritter

Ein Eremit Edwin C. Mitchellmaestro direttore Siegfried Behrens

10/28/12: Robin Hood(Reginald de Koven): Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House (De Koven Opera Company, DanielV. Arthur), hour: 2015

Robert of Huntingdon(Robin Hood) Walter HydeLady Marian Fitzwalter(Maid Marian) Bessie AbottSir Tristan Testy, sheriff of NottinghamEdwin Stevens

Sir Guy of Gisborne Philip SheffieldDame Durden Pauline Hall

Annabel Sylva van DyckWill Scarlet Herbert WaterousLittle John Carl GantvoortFriar Tuck George B. Frothingham

Alan-a-Dale Florence WickhamJoan Dorothy Arthur

Herald Mary Mooneyroles unknown: Misha Ferenzo

Louise le BaronAnna Bussert


Robin Hoodran for two weeks with matinées on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

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10/31/12: Aida (Opening night of the season): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand OperaCompany), hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz

Il re d’Egitto Gustave HuberdeauAmneris Eleanora de Cisneros

Aida Cecilia GagliardiRadamès Icilio Calleja

Ramfis Henri ScottAmonasro Mario Sammarco


Julie Hudak

11/01/12: Carmen: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Carmen Maria GayDon José Charles DalmorèsEscamillo Armand Crabbé

Micaëla Jenny DufauFr asquita Edna DarchMercédès Margaret Keyes

Zuniga Gustave Huberdeau[Moralès] Henri Scott



11/02/12: Manon Lescaut: Philadelphia (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.), hour: 1400: stage dir. Fernand Almanz

Manon Lescaut Carolina WhiteLescaut Mario Sammarco

Il cavaliere Renato des GrieuxGiovanni ZenatelloGeronte di Ravoir Vittorio Trevisan

Edmondo Emilio VenturiniL’oste Frank Preisch

Un musico Ruby HeylIl maestro di ballo Edmond Warnery

Un lampionaio Emilio VenturiniUn sergente degli arcieri Nicolo FossettaIl comandante di marina Constantin Nicolay


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11/02/12: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; stage manager Joseph Engel; assistant stage managerH. G. Moore, Fritz Hugo Steglich; technical director William H. Bairstow; scenic artist Julian I.Macdonald; chief electrician George Fuller; master of properties George Lowe; stage assistantSamuel Katzman; ballet master Luigi Albertieri

Hoffmann Edmond WarneryNicklausse Adele Legard Ruby Heyl

Olympia Jenny DufauAntonia Edna Darch

Giulietta Marie CavanLindorf Désiré Defrère

Coppélius Armand CrabbéDr. Miracle Gustave HuberdeauDapertutto Armand Crabbé


Fr anzLa mère d’Antonia Margaret Keyes

Spalanzani Constantin NicolayHermann Nicolo FossettaSchlémil Désiré Defrère

Nathanaël Emilio VenturiniLuther Frank Preisch

Crespel Constantin Nicolaymaestro direttore Marcel Charliermaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti

11/04/12: Rigoletto: Philadelphia (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.), hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz

Il duca di Mantova Orville HarroldRigoletto Titta Ruffo

Gilda Alma GluckSparafucile Henri ScottMaddalena Margaret Keyes

Il conte di Monterone Constantin NicolayMatteo Borsa Emilio Venturini


Il cavaliere Marullo Nicolo FossettaIl conte di Ceprano Vittorio Trevisan

Pa g gio della duchessaElsa Garrettemaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

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11/06/12: Un ballo in maschera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz

Riccardo Giovanni ZenatelloRenato Titta RuffoAmelia Cecilia GagliardiUlrica Maria GayOscar Jenny Dufau

Silvano Nicolo FossettaSamuel Gustave Huberdeau

Tom Henri ScottUn giudice Emilio Venturini

Un servitore di Amelia Frank Preischmaestro direttore Ettore Perosio

11/07/12: Das Heimchen am Herd(Karl Goldmark:The cricket on the hearth) American première, English: Philadelphia,Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Fernand Almanz

John Hector DufranneDot Maggie TeyteMay Helen Stanley

Edward Plummer Riccardo MartinTackleton Henri Scott

The cricket Mabel Riegelmanmaestro direttore Arnold Winternitz




Ramfis Henri ScottAmonasro Anafesto Rossi


Il duca di Mantova Orville HarroldRigoletto Titta Ruffo

Gilda Alice ZeppilliSparafucile Gustave HuberdeauMaddalena Margaret Keyes




Pa g gio della duchessaElsa Garrettemaestro direttore Ettore Perosio

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11/09/12: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Carmen Maria GayDon José Charles DalmorèsEscamillo Hector Dufranne

Micaëla Helen StanleyFr asquita Edna DarchMercédès Margaret Keyes



Lillas Pastia Jean de Keysermaestro direttore Marcel Charlier


11/11/12: Aida: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000



Ramfis Henri ScottAmonasro Mario Sammarco

Un messaggero Emilio VenturiniUna sacerdotessa Mabel Riegelmanmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campaninimaestro direttore Ettore Perosio

Julie Hudak

11/13/12: Das Heimchen am Herd: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.),hour: 1400

John Hector DufranneDot Maggie TeyteMay Helen Stanley

Edward Plummer George HamlinTackleton Henri Scott

The cricket Mabel Riegelmanmaestro direttore Arnold Winternitz

11/13/12: Hamlet (Ambroise Thomas), Italian: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago GrandOpera Company), hour: 2000

Hamlet Titta RuffoOphélie Alice Zeppilli

Claudius Gustave HuberdeauLaërte Emilio Venturini

La reine Gertrude Eleanora de CisnerosLe spectre Henri ScottMarcellus Edmond Warnery

Horatio Constantin NicolayPolonius Frank Preisch


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11/14/12: Manon Lescaut: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.), hour: 2000


Il cavaliere Renato des GrieuxGiovanni ZenatelloGeronte di Ravoir Vittorio Trevisan

Edmondo Emilio VenturiniL’oste Frank Preisch

Un musico Ruby HeylIl maestro di ballo Edmond Warnery

Un lampionaio Emilio VenturiniUn sergente degli arcieri Nicolo FossettaIl comandante di marina Constantin Nicolay


11/15/12: Manon Lescaut: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)


Il cavaliere Renato des GrieuxGiuseppe GaudenziGeronte di Ravoir Vittorio Trevisan

Un musico Ruby Heyl. . .



Santuzza Cecilia GagliardiLola Ruby Heyl

Turiddu Giuseppe GaudenziAlfio Armand Crabbé

Lucia Louise Bératmaestro direttore Ettore Perosio


Nedda Alice ZeppilliCanio Giovanni ZenatelloTonio Titta RuffoBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Armand Crabbé


11/16/12: La traviata: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Violetta Valéry Jenny DufauAlfredo Germont Piero OrsattiGiorgio Germont Anafesto Rossi


Il dottor Grenvil Constantin NicolayAnnina Louise Bérat

Gastone di Letorières Emilio VenturiniIl marchese d’Obigny Vittorio Trevisan

Giuseppe Santo MandelliUn domestico di Flora Rocco Franzini


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11/18/12: Mignon: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

Mignon Maggie TeyteWilhelm Meister Edmond Clément

Lothario Hector DufrannePhiline Jenny Dufau

Frédéric Ruby HeylLaërte Edmond WarneryJarna Constantin Nicolay


11/18/12: The firefly(Rudolph Friml): Philadelphia, Garrick Theatre (Arthur Hammerstein), hour: 2015

Sybil Vandare Vera de RosaSuzette Ruby NortonPietro Sammy Lee

Geraldine Vandare Audry MapleJack Travers Craig Campbill

John Thurston Melville StewartMrs. Oglesby Vandare Katherine Stewart

Jenkins Roy AtwellHerr Franz Henry Vogel

Nina Emma TrentiniAntonio Columbo Irene Cassini

Correlli George Williamsmaestro direttore unknown

The fireflyran for two weeks with matinées on Saturdays and Thanksgiving.

11/19/12: Tannhäuser: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Hermann Herbert WitherspoonTannhäuser Carl Burrian

Wolfram von EschenbachHermann WeilWalter von der Vogelweide Albert Reiss

Biterolf William HinshawHeinrich der Schreiber Julius Bayer

Reinmar von Zweter Basil RuysdaelElisabeth Olive Fremstad

Venus Marie RappoldEin Hirtenknabe Lenora Sparkes

Pa g e Stella de MettePa g e Rosina van Dyck


Margherita PezzatiniMargarete Horwitz

Hilda Wall

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11/19/12: Hamlet (Italian): New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour:2000: stage director Fernand Almanz



La reine Gertrude Eleanora de CisnerosLe spectre Henri ScottMarcellus Edmond Warnery



Incidental dances: Rosina Galli, corps de ballet

11/20/12: Tristan und Isolde: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 1945

Isolde Lillian NordicaTristan Charles Dalmorès



Ein junger Seemann unknownEin Hirt Emilio Venturini

Der Steuermann Frank Preischmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

11/21/12: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri

Il conte di Luna Titta RuffoLeonora Cecilia GagliardiAzucena Maria GayManrico Giovanni Zenatello

Ferrando Constantin NicolayInes Minnie EgenerRuiz Emilio Venturini

Un vecchio zingaro Rocco FranziniUn messaggero Palmiro Aleotti


11/22/12: Mignon: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Mignon Maggie Teyte

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11/23/12: I gioielli della Madonna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.),hour: 1400: stage director Fernand Almanz

Gennaro Giovanni ZenatelloCarmela Louise BératMaliella Carolina WhiteRafaele Mario Sammarco

Biaso Francesco DaddiCiccillo Emilio Venturini[Stella] Helen Warrum

Concetta Mabel Riegelman[Serena] Adele Legard

Grazia Rosina GalliTotonno Edmond Warnery

Rocco Nicolo FossettaA toy balloon vendor Giuseppe Minerva

A flower vendor Minnie EgenerAn ice cream vendor Palmiro Aleotti

unknown Lavinia PuglioliFirst monk Frank Preisch

unknown Rocco Franziniunknown Vittorio Trevisan

A young lady [Minnie Egener]Second young manDésiré Defrère

First anne [Minnie Egener]Second morra player [Désiré Defrère]


11/23/12: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; stage manager Joseph Engel; assistant stage managerH. G. Moore, Fritz Hugo Steglich; ballet master Luigi Albertieri; technical director William H.Bairstow; scenic artist Julian L. Macdonald; chief electrician George Fuller; master of propertiesGeorge Lowe; stage assistant Samuel Katzman; master of wardrobe Joseph Banasiak; wardrobemistress A. Frommknecht

Santuzza Cecilia GagliardiLola Ruby Heyl

Turiddu Giuseppe GaudenziAlfio Armand Crabbé

Lucia Louise Bératmaestro direttore Ettore Perosiomaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company): stage director Fernand Almanz

Nedda Alice ZeppilliCanio Icilio CallejaTonio Titta RuffoBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Armand Crabbé


After this performance the Chicago-Philadelphia Opera touring company performaed in Cincinnati (11/25) thenreturned to Chicago, also performing in Milwaukee during their stay.

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11/26/12: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), 2000







12/02/12: Eva(Franz Lehár): Philadelphia, Garrick Theatre (Klaw & Erlanger), hour: 2015

Larousse T. J. McGraneAntoine Wallace McCutcheon, Jr.

Volsia John Daly MurphyDagobert Millefleurs Tom Waters

Pipsi Paquerette Alma FrancisEva Sallie Fisher

Octave Flaubert Walter PercivalEllie Marie Ashton

roles unknown: Marie VernonAlden MacClaskieWilliam T. FordFrances MelvonJohn GibsonFlorence FillmoreEdna Broderick


Evawas advertised as a musical drama and ran for three weeks with Wednesday and Saturday matinées at 2:15.


Mimì Geraldine FarrarRodolfo Enrico Caruso

Marcello Pasquale AmatoSchaunard Adamo Didur


Alcindoro Antonio Pini-CorsiMusetta Lenora Sparkes


maestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

12/05/12: Messa da Requiem(Verdi): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Choral Society of Philadelphia): with members ofthe Philadelphia Orchestra

Soprano Nina DimitrieffTenore Dan Beddoe

Mezzo-soprano Marie Stone LangstonBasso Henry Hotz

maestro direttore Henry Gordon Thunder

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12/10/12: Die Meistersinger: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 1930

Hans Sachs Hermann WeilVeit Pogner Herbert Witherspoon

Kunz Vogelgesang Lambert MurphyKonrad Nachtigall G MartinSixtus BeckmesserOtto Goritz

Fritz Kothner William HinshawBalthasar Zorn Julius Bayer

Ulrich Eißlinger Austin HughesAugustin Moser Pietro AudisioHermann Ortel Paolo AnanianHans Schwarz Bernhard Heidenreich

Hans Foltz Basil RuysdaelWalter von Stolzing Leo Slezak

David Albert ReissEva Emmy Destinn

Magdalene Marie MattfeldEin Nachtwächter Antonio Pini-Corsimaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

12/17/12: Tosca: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000: stagedirector Jules Speck

Floria Tosca Geraldine FarrarMario Cavaradossi Riccardo Martin

Il barone Scarpia Pasquale AmatoCesare Angelotti Giulio Rossi


Sciarrone Bernard BéguéUn pastore Stella de Mette

Un carceriere Paolo Ananianmaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani


La gioconda Emmy DestinnEnzo Grimaldo Enrico CarusoLaura Adorno Louise Homer

Barnaba Dinh GillyAlvise Badoero Andrés de Segurola

La cieca Maria DuchèneZuàne Bernard BéguéIsèpo Pietro Audisio

Un cantore Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

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1/14/13: Die Zauberflöte: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Sarastro Herbert WitherspoonTamino Leo Slezak

Sprecher Hermann WeilKönigin der Nacht Ethel Parks

Pamina Johanna GadskiErste Dame der Königin Vera Curtis

Zweite Dame der Königin Florence MulfordDritte Dame der Königin Louise Homer

Papageno Otto GoritzPapagena Bella Alten

Monostatos Albert ReissErster Knabe Lenora Sparkes

Zweiter Knabe Anna CaseDritter Knabe Marie Mattfeld

Erster geharnischter Mann Paul AlthouseZweiter geharnischter Mann Basil Ruysdael

Erster Priester Julius BayerZweiter Priester Louis Kreidlermaestro direttore Alfred Hertz

1/21/13: Orfeo ed Euridice: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, NY), hour: 2000

Orfeo Louise HomerEuridice Johanna Gadski

Amore Bella AltenSpirit Vera Curtis


Lucia Fornaroli

1/28/13: Manon: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour 2000

Manon Geraldine FarrarLe chevalier des Grieux Enrico Caruso

Lescaut Dinh GillyLe comte des Grieux Léon Rothier

Guillot de Morfontaine Albert ReissDe Brétigny Andrés de Segurola

Poussette Lenora SparkesJavotte Jeanne MaubourgRosette Maria Duchène

L’hôtelier Paolo AnanianPremier garde Vincenzo Reschiglian

Deuxième garde Bernard BéguéLa servante Maria Savage


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1/30/13: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society): sixty members ofPhiladelphia Orchestra, chorus of 200, ballet of 48; stage director Leo Wright; director of the balletC. Ellwood Carpenter

Count Arnheim Franklin L. WoodFlorestein H. S. MacWhorterThaddeus Paul Volkmann

Devilshoof Frederick AyresArline Kathryn McGinley

The gypsy queen Beatrice F. CollinThe child Arline Constance Carpenter

Buda Helen M. SmithCaptain of the guard William J. Mayer

maestro direttore Wassili Leps


Lord Enrico Asthon Mario SammarcoMiss Lucia Luisa Tetrazzini

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodAristodemo GiorginiRaimondo Bidebent Henri ScottLord Arturo Buclaw Emilio Venturini

Alisa Minnie EgenerNormanno Piero Orsatti


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2/04/13: Louise: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Fernand Almanz; ballet master Luigi Albertieri



La petite chiffonnière Anne SullivanLa glaneuse de charbonRegina Rist

Le noctambule Edmond WarneryLa plieuse May Hamilton



Le deuxième gardien de la paixEtienne ContessoLe gavroche Elsa Garrette

La balayeuse Hope GrayLe peintre Nicolo Fossetta


Le premier philosophe Désiré DefrèreLe jeune poète Marius Sperte

Le deuxième philosopheCharles MeyerL’apprentie Gabrielle KlinkL’étudiant Jean de Keyser

Le rempailleuse Ruby HeylLa marchande d’artichauts Mabel Riegelman

Le marchand de carottesEmilio VenturiniLa marchande de mouronAgnes Berry

Un marchand ambulant Désiré DefrèreA dancer Julie HudakBlanche Minnie Egener

Marguerite Honor WinerSuzanne Mina Chumsland

Gertrude Ruby HeylCamille Minnie Egener

Irma Marie CavanÉlise Helen Warrum

Jeanne Lillian RogersHenrietta Mae Johnson

Madeleine Anne SullivanLe marchand d’habits Francesco Daddi

La première Hope GrayLe pape des fous Emilio Venturini

An errand girl Mabel Riegelmanmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campaninimaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti

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2/05/13: Mignon: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Mignon Mabel RiegelmanWilhelm Meister Leon Campagnola

Lothario Hector DufrannePhiline Luisa Tetrazzini

Frédéric Ruby HeylLaërte Edmond WarneryJarna Constantin Nicolay


2/06/13: Conchita (Riccardo Zandonai): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand OperaCompany), hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; stage manager Joseph Engel; assistant stagemanager H. G. Moore, Fritz Hugo Steglich; ballet master Luigi Albertieri; technical director WilliamH. Bairstow; scenic artist Julian L. Macdonald; chief electrician George Fuller; master of propertiesGeorge Lowe; stage assistant Samuel Banasiak; wardrobe mistress A. Frommknecht

Conchita Tarquinia TarquiniDon Mateo Charles Dalmorès

Dolores Helen StanleyRuffina Ruby HeylEstella Minnie Egener

La sorvegliante Adele LegardL’ispettore Frank Preisch

Banderillero Vittorio TrevisanVenditore di frutta Emilio Venturini

Una guida Francesco DaddiMadre di Conchita Louise Bérat

Una voce Emilio VenturiniLa gallega Rosina GalliLa danseur Luigi AlbertieriUna madre Esther Grimm

Tonio Désiré DefrèreMorenito May Hamilton

Garcia Constantin NicolaySereno Vittorio Trevisan

Uno giovanotto Piero OrsattiUna donna Anne Sullivan

Una ragazza Elsa Garrette

Due Inglesi Giuseppe Minerva

Rocco FranziniEnrichetta Minnie Egener

L’amica d’Enrichetta Elsa Garrette

Due spettatore Nicolo Fossetta

Michele Zwibachmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campaninimaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti

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2/07/13: Tosca: Washington, D. C.(Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Floria Tosca Mary GardenMario Cavaradossi Leon Campagnola

Il barone Scarpia Mario SammarcoCesare Angelotti Constantin Nicolay

Il sagrestano Vittorio TrevisanSpoletta Francesco Daddi

Sciarrone [Nicolo Fossetta]Un pastore unknown

Un carceriere [Frank Preisch]maestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

2/07/13: Lucia di Lammermoor: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Lord Enrico Asthon Anafesto RossiMiss Lucia Luisa Tetrazzini

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodAristodemo GiorginiRaimondo Bidebent Henri ScottLord Arturo Buclaw Emilio Venturini

Alisa Minnie EgenerNormanno [Piero Orsatti]


2/08/13: Il segreto di Susanna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 1400: stage director Fernand Almanz

La contessa SusannaAlice ZeppilliIl conte Gil Mario Sammarco

Sante Francesco Daddimaestro direttore Attilio Parelli


Jean Mary GardenBoniface Hector DufranneLe prieur Gustave Huberdeau

Un moine sculpteur Constantin NicolayUn moine peintre Henri Scott


Un loustic Désiré DefrèreUn ivrogne Charles Meyer

Un chevalier Jean de Keysermaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

2/08/13: Lohengrin: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1945:stage director Fernand Almanz

Heinrich der Vogler Henri ScottLohengrin Kurt Schönert

Elsa von Brabant Jane Osborn-HannahFriedrich von Telramund Clarence Whitehill

Ortrud Julia ClaussenDer Heerrufer des Königs Aurele Borriss

maestro direttore Arnold Winternitz

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2/10/13: Noël (Frédéric d’Erlanger): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz

Jacques Herblet Edmond WarneryMadame Herblet Louise Bérat

Madeleine Minnie Saltzman-StevensThe priest Hector Dufranne

Blanche Marie CavanThe nurse Margaret Keyes

First voice Mabel RiegelmanSecond voice Ruby HeylThe sacristan Francesco Daddi

Vincent Charles MeyerA gentleman Désiré Defrère

First workman Joseph DemortierSecond workman Jean de Keyser

Third workman Désiré DefrèreA workman Marie Hamilton

An old woman Adele LegardA lady Esther Grimm


Grand Ballet Divertissement: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House: ballet master Luigi AlbertieriRosina Galli, Anna Bollman, corps de ballet

Antonín Dvorák Slawische Tänze

Julie HudakAnton Rubinstein Toreador et Andalouse

Antonín Dvorák Slawisch Tänz

Corps de balletAlbert Lortzing:Zar und Zimmermann Dutch Clog Dance (Holzschuhtanz)

Rosina GalliVictor Herbert:Natoma Habanera

Corps de BalletJohannes Brahms Ungarische Tänze 5

Julie Hudak, Luigi AlbertieriG. Vanuccini La Ciociara, pas de Caracere

Rosina GalliJohann Strauß, Jr. Adagio

Leo Delibes:Sylvia Pizzicato-Polka

Rosina Galli, corps de balletJohann Strauß, Jr. Rosen aus dem Süden

maestro direttore Giacomo Spadoni

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.): stage director Fernand Almanz

Canio Leon CampagnolaNedda Helen StanleyTonio Mario SammarcoBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Armand Crabbé


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2/11/13: Conchita: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz






Una voce Emilio VenturiniLa gallega Rosina GalliLa danseur Luigi AlbertieriUna madre Esther Grimm

Tonio Désiré DefrèreMorenito Marie Hamilton

Garcia Constantin NicolaySereno Vittorio Trevisan

Uno giovanotto Piero OrsattiUna donna Anne Sullivan

Una ragazza Elsa Garrette

Due inglesi Giuseppe Minerva

Rocco FranziniEnrichetta Minnie Egener

L’amica d’Enrichetta Elsa Garrette


Michele Zwibachmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini


Violetta Valéry Luisa TetrazziniAlfredo Germont Aristodemo GiorginiGiorgio Germont Anafesto Rossi






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2/12/13: Tosca: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Floria Tosca Mary GardenMario Cavaradossi Leon Campagnola

Il barone Scarpia Mario SammarcoCesare Angelotti Constantin Nicolay

Il sagrestano Vittorio TrevisanSpoletta Emilio Venturini


Un carceriere Frank Preischmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

2/13/13: Die Walküre: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour:1945: stage director Fernand Almanz

Siegmund Kurt SchönertHunding Henri Scott

Wotan Gustave HuberdeauSieglinde Minnie Saltzman-Stevens

Brünnhilde Julia ClaussenFricka Eleanora de Cisneros

Gerhilde Helen StanleyOrtlinde Minnie Egener

Waltraute Ruby HeylSchwertleite Louise Bérat


Grimgerde Margaret KeyesRoßweiße Adele Legard


2/14/13: Lucia di Lammermoor: Washington, D. C.(Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Miss Lucia Luisa TetrazziniAlisa Minnie Egener

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodAristodemo GiorginiLord Enrico Asthon Georges MascalRaimondo Bidebent Henri Scott

Piero Orsattimaestro direttore Ettore Perosio

2/14/13: Tosca: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Floria Tosca Mary GardenUn pastore Minnie Egener

Mario Cavaradossi Leon CampagnolaIl barone Scarpia Mario Sammarcomaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

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Nicias Charles DalmorèsPalémon Gustave HuberdeauCrobyle Marie CavanMyrtale Minnie EgenerAlbine Louise Bérat



Le docteur Faust Edmond WarneryMéphistophélès Gustave Huberdeau

Marguerite Alice ZeppilliValentin Armand Crabbé

Siébel Minnie EgenerDame Marthe Schwertlein Louise Bérat


2/17/13: La bohème: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Mimì Maggie TeyteRodolfo Leon Campagnola

Marcello Anafesto RossiSchaunard Nicolo Fossetta

Colline Gustave HuberdeauBenoît Francesco Daddi

Alcindoro Vittorio TrevisanMusetta Mabel Riegelman

[Parpignol] Piero OrsattiSergente dei doganieri Rocco Franzini

Un ufficiale Frank Preischmaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

2/18/13: Thaïs: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Fernand Almanz; costumes by Freisinger, New York


Nicias Charles DalmorèsPalémon Gustave HuberdeauCrobyle Marie CavanMyrtale Minnie EgenerAlbine Louise Bérat


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2/19/13: Conchita: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz






La gallega Rosina GalliTonio Désiré Defrère

Garcia Constantin NicolayUno giovanotto Piero Orsatti

Una ragazza Elsa GarretteL’amica d’Enrichetta Elsa Garrette


Michele Zwibachmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

2/20/13: I dispettosi amanti(A lover’s quarrel): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago GrandOpera Company), hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; stage manager Joseph Engel;assistant stage manager H. G. Moore, Fritz Hugo Steglich; ballet master Luigi Albertieri; technicaldirector William H. Bairstow; scenic artist Julian L. Macdonald; chief electrician George Fuller;master of properties George Lowe; stage assistant Samuel Banasiak; wardrobe mistress A.Frommknecht

Rosaura Alice ZeppilliFlorindo Aristodemo Giorgini



Luisa TetrazziniJulius Benedict The carnival of Venice (with variations)

Crispino e la comare: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Crispino Tracchetto Vittorio TrevisanAnnetta Luisa Tetrazzini

Don Asdrubale di Caparotta Nicolo FossettaLa comare Ruby Heyl

Fabrizio Mario SammarcoMirabolano Constantin Nicolay

Il contino del Fiore Emilio VenturiniBortolo Désiré Defrère


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2/21/13: Le ranz des vaches(Wilhelm Kienzl: Der Kuhreigen): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz

Louis XVI Constantin NicolayMarquis Massimelle Gustave Huberdeau

Blanchefleur Helen StanleyThe chancellor Frank Preisch

Marquis de Chezy Emilio VenturiniCleo Margaret Keyes

Primus Thaller Charles DalmorèsDursel Georges Mascal

Marion Eleanora de CisnerosSecond Swiss soldierDésiré Defrère

Favert Hector Dufranneunknown Mabel Riegelman


2/22/13: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),house: 1400: stage director Fernand Almanz

Miss Lucia Luisa TetrazziniSir Edgardo di RavenswoodAristodemo Giorgini

Lord Enrico Asthon Georges MascalRaimondo Bidebent Henri Scott

Alisa Minnie EgenerLord Arturo Buclaw Emilio Venturini

Alisa Minnie EgenerNormanno Palmiro Aleotti


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2/22/13: I gioielli della Madonna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand OperaCompany), hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; stage manager Joseph Engel; assistant stagemanager H. G. Moore, Fritz Hugo Steglich; ballet master Luigi Albertieri; technical director WilliamH. Bairstow; scenic artist Julian L. Macdonald; chief electrician George Fuller; master of propertiesGeorge Lowe, stage assistant Samuel Katzman, master of wardrobe Joseph Banasiak; wardrobemistress A. Frommknecht

Gennaro Leon CampagnolaCarmela Louise BératMaliella Helen StanleyRafaele Mario Sammarco


Stella Mabel RiegelmanConcetta Helen Warrum

Serena Adele LegardGrazia Rosina Galli



A water vendor Grace CunninghamA water vendor Roberto ArdoniA flower vendor Minnie Egener


First monk Frank PreischSecond monk Philip Aronson

The town crier Luigi AlbertieriA young lady Minnie Egener

First young man Nicolo FossettaSecond young manRoberto Adorni


Second anne Lavinia PuglioliThird anne Cornelia Chapman

The blind man Vittorio TrevisanA peasant woman Adele Legard

First girl Elsa GarretteSecond girl Mina Chumsland

First cammorist Giovanni LuganoSecond cammorist Désiré DefrèreFirst morra player Santo Mandelli

Second morra player Désiré DefrèreThe father Vittorio Trevisan

A young nurse Adele LegardA vendor Roberto Rodondi

maestro direttore Ettore Perosiomaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti

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2/24/13: Le ranz des vaches: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000



Marquis de Chezy Emilio VenturiniCleo Margaret Keyes

Primus Thaller Charles DalmorèsDursel Georges Mascal

Marion Eleanora de CisnerosSecond Swiss soldierDésiré Defrère

Favert Hector DufranneSecond chasseur Joseph Demortier

First lady of the court Minnie EgenerSecond lady of the courtAdele Legard

Second gentleman Nicolo Fossettamaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

2/24/13: Der Graf von Luxemburg(English): Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Klaw & Erlanger), hour: 2015

René, Graf von LuxemburgGeorge Leon MooreGrand Duke Rutzinov Frank MoulanGräfin Stasa Kokozow Gladys Homfrey

Armand Brissard Fred WaltonAngèle Didier Ann Swinburne

Juliette Vermont Reba DaleFoyot Russell Simpson

Nicholai Harold J. Rebillmaestro direttore unknown

Der Graf von Luxemburgran for four weeks with matinées on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 1415.

2/25/13: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000:Philadelphia Orchestra (the company’s own orchestra was engaged in New York withLe ranz desvaches.)

Il conte d’Almaviva Aristodemo GiorginiIl dottore Bartolo Vittorio Trevisan

Rosina Luisa TetrazziniFigaro Mario Sammarco

Don Basilio Henri ScottBerta Louise Bérat

Un ufficiale Pietro Audisiomaestro direttore Ettore Perosio

Lesson scene:unknown Cenzano waltz

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2/25/13: Le ranz des vaches: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)



Captain Brayole Jacques DuryMarquis de Chezy Emilio Venturini

Cleo Margaret KeyesPrimus Thaller Charles Dalmorès

Dursel Georges MascalMarion Eleanora de Cisneros

First Swiss soldier Jean de KeyserSecond Swiss soldierDésiré Defrère

Favert Hector DufranneFirst chasseur Emilio Venturini

Second chasseur Joseph DemortierDoris May Mann

Master of ceremonies Joseph MeyerAn officer Georges Mascal

An orderly Stanilaus GrundgandFirst lady of the court Minnie Egener

Second lady of the courtAdele LegardFirst gentleman Emilio Venturini

Second gentleman Nicolo FossettaChanteclair Etienne Contesso

A lackey Rocco FranziniJourdan Etienne Contesso

Duval Désiré DefrèreEpissier Georges Mascal

Cartouche Charles MeyerThe "Temple" warder Charles Demortier

An ordonnanz Jean de KeyserA courtisan Katherine ReilingSans culotte Nicolas Colin

Another sans culotte Nicolo Fossettamaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

The Chicago-Philadelphia touring company traveled to Dallas (2/28/13), Los Angeles (3/4), San Francisco(3/12), Portland (3/31), Seattle (4/3), Spokane (4/7), Denver (4/10), Wichita (4/14), Kansas City (4/16), St. Louis(4/17), Minneapolis (4/22), Milwaukee (4/25), Cincinnati (4/26), Columbus (4/30), Washington (5/2), and NewYork (5/3).

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3/03/13: The merry countess(adaptation ofDie Fledermaus): Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Messrs. Shubert), hour: 2000

Ilka Fritzie von BusingGabor Szabo Maurice Farkoa

Countess Rosalinda CliquotMiss Jose CollinsDr. Berncastler Claude Flemming

Count Max Cliquot Forrest HuffHochheimer Tom A. Shale

Felice Rozsika DollyMinna Mabel Burnege

Prince Orloffsky Martin BrownBeirstiner, deputy governor Frank Farrington

A warder George LymanMattoni, a new warder A. W. Baskcomb

roles unknown: Rex FuehrerHarry CarterFrank Ross


Lysa Graham

The merry countessran for four weeks with matinées on Thursday and Saturday the first week, and Wednesdaysand Saturdays thereafter..

3/25/13: Les huguenots(Italian): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., NY), hour: 2000

Marguerite de Valois Frieda HempelRaoul de Nangis Enrico Caruso

Valentine Emmy DestinnLe comte de NeversDinh Gilly

Urbain Bella AltenLe comte de Saint-Bris Léon Rothier

Marcel Carl BraunTavannes Angelo BadàDe Cossé Pietro Audisio

De Retz Bernard BéguéMéru Paolo Ananian

Dame d’honneur de la reine Marie MattfeldBois-Rosé Angelo BadàMaurevert Giulio RossiWatchman Vincenzo Reschiglian

role unknown Jeanne Maubourgrole unknown Lambert Murphy


Margherita PezzatiniEva Swain

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4/22/13: Narcissus (Massenet, cantata): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Strawbridge and Clothier Chorus): sixtymembers of the Philadelphia Orchestra; organ Henry S. Fry

Narcissus Nicholas Doutymaestro direttore Herbert J. Tily

Eve(Massenet, cantata): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Strawbridge & Clothier)

Narrator Nicholas DoutyAdam Reinald Werrenrath

Eve Florence Hinklemaestro direttore Herbert J. Tily

Mary Magdalen(Massenet, cantata, first part only): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Strawbridge & Clothier)

Evangelist Nicholas DoutyJudas Reinald WerrenrathMary Florence Hinkle

maestro direttore Herbert J. Tily

4/24/13: Cavalleria rusticana(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 2015:stage director Edward S. Grant

Santuzza Nancis France CranmerLola Elizabeth C. Clayton

Turiddu Paul VolkmannAlfio Horace R. Hood

Lucia Augusta M. Kohnlemaestro direttore Wassili Leps

Coppelia(ballet: Leo Delibes): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society): ballet directorC. Ellwood Carpenter

Coppelia Dorothy Cook MillerSwanilda Hilda Schoch

Fr antz Miriam Virginia CookCoppelius C. Ellwood Carpenter

The burgomaster Charles D. Cuznermaestro direttore Wassili Leps

Constance Cartner, L. M. Pile, M. C. de Cou, H. V. HohlingAdele Hassan, Dorothy Browning

5/01/13: Hänsel und Gretel: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)5/02/13: Hänsel und Gretel: Washington, D. C.(Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)5/03/13: Hänsel und Gretel(English): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera

Company), hour: 1400

Peter Morton Adkins Armand Crabbé

Gertrud Louise BératHänsel Marie CavanGretel Mabel Riegelman

Die Knusperhexe Francesco Daddi Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Sandmännchen Helen WarrumTaumännchen Helen Warrum


Madame Schumann-Heink was unable to arrive in the city ontime, so her place on the program asThe witchwastaken by Francesco Daddi.

5/03/13: Lucia di Lammermoor: New York (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

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5/05/13: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (Philadelphia Operatic Society, John Curtis), hour: 2015:stage director Edward S. Grant; ballet director C. Ellwood Carpenter; maestro del coro WilliamBentz

Count Arnheim Franklin L. WoodFlorestein H. S. MacWhorterThaddeus Paul Volkmann

Devilshoof Frederick AyresArline Kathryn McGinley

The gypsy queen Beatrice F. CollinThe child Arline Constance Carpenter

Buda Helen M. Smithmaestro direttore Wassili Leps

5/06/13: Martha (English): Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 2015

Lady Harriet Durham Elizabeth C. ClaytonNancy Mrs. Russell King Miller

Lord Tristan Mickleford Frederick G. ReesLyonel Joseph S. McGlynn

Plumkett Franklin L. WoodDer Richter zu Richmond Charles D. Cuzner


5/07/13: Faust(English): Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 2015

Le docteur Faust Harry DaviesMéphistophélès Frederick Ayres

Marguerite Sara Richards JonesValentin Horace R. Hood

Siébel Margaret E. DietterichDame Marthe Schwertlein Eva Allen Ritter

Wa gner John W. Littlemaestro direttore Wassili Leps

5/08/13: Martha (English): Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 2015: 5/06/135/09/13: Der Freischütz(English): Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 2015

Ottokar Morris Hall WareKuno Horace R. Hood

Agathe Alma WeisshaarÄnnchen Jennie Kneedler JohnsonKaspar Frederick Ayres

Max Harry DaviesKilian Charles D. Cuzner

role unknown Frank T. Knightrole unknown John W. Little, Jr.


Coppelia: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (Philadelphia Operatic Society)5/10/13: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 1415: 5/05/135/10/13: Faust: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 2015: 5/07/13

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5/14/13: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage director Joseph Craig Fox

The Mikado of Japan Clarence C. BrintonNanki-Poo Philip Warren Cooke

Ko-Ko J. Lawson Weatherly, Jr.Poo-Bah F. Ashby Wallace

Pish-Tush Howard B. StaversYum-Yum Ethel Marriott JonesPitti-Sing Sara Elizabeth PhillipsPeep-Bo Mrs. E. H. Cathrall, Jr.Katisha Mary Monroe Decker

maestro direttore A. Gordon Mitchell

5/15/13: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/16/13: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/17/13: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

10/30/13: Aida (English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 1945: stage directorEdward S. Grant; ballet director C. Ellwood Carpenter; costumes Van Horn & Son; wigs and make-up A. M. Buch & Co.

Il re d’Egitto Franklin L. WoodAmneris Mabelle Cochran Addison

Aida Helen Macnamee BentzRadamès Daniel C. Donovan

Ramfis Frederick AyresAmonasro David Griffin

Un messaggero John H. Cromie, Jr.Una sacerdotessa Florence Cummins Lewismaestro direttore Wassili Lepsmaestro del coro William P. Bentz

solo dancers: Adele Hasson, Karline France

11/03/13: Tosca: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company, CleofonteCampanini), hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz

Floria Tosca Mary GardenMario Cavaradossi Giovanni Martinelli

Il barone Scarpia Vanni MarcouxCesare Angelotti Constantin Nicolay



Un carceriere Frank Preischmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

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11/05/13: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; stage manager Joseph Engel; assistant stage managerH. G. Moore; stage assistant Samuel Katzman; ballet master Vincenzo Romeo; technical directorWilliam H. Bairstow; chief electrician George Fuller; master of properties George Lowe; master ofwardrobe Joseph Banasiak; wardrobe mistress A. Frommknecht

Il conte d’Almaviva Aristodemo GiorginiIl dottore Bartolo Vittorio Trevisan

Rosina Jenny DufauFigaro Titta Ruffo

Don Basilio Henri ScottFiorello Emilio Venturini

Berta Louise BératUn ufficiale Nicolo Fossetta

maestro direttore Giuseppe Saturanimaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti

Lesson scene:Luigi Arditi Il bacio

Martha The last rose of summer


Il re d’Egitto Gustave HuberdeauAmneris Beatrice Wheeler

Aida Carolina WhiteRadamès Giovanni Martinelli



11/07/13: Rigoletto: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Il duca di Mantova Aristodemo GiorginiRigoletto Titta Ruffo

Gilda Alice ZeppilliSparafucile Gustave HuberdeauMaddalena Margaret Keyes

Matteo Borsa Emilio VenturiniLa contessa di Ceprano Minnie Egener

Giovanna Louise BératIl cavaliere Marullo Nicolo FossettaIl conte di Ceprano Vittorio Trevisan


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11/08/13: La fanciulla del West: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 1400: stage director Fernand Almanz

Minnie Falconer Elizabeth Amsden Carolina White

Jack Rance Giovanni PoleseDick Johnson(Ramerrez) Giovanni Martinelli

Nick Francesco DaddiAshby Henri Scott

Sonora Hector DufranneTrin Edmond WarnerySid Nicolo Fossetta

Bello Alan TurnerHarry Ralph Errolle

Joe Emilio VenturiniHappy Frank Preisch

Jim Larkens Vittorio TrevisanBilly Jackrabbit Gustave Huberdeau

Wowkle Beatrice WheelerJake Wallace Armand CrabbéJosè Castro Constantin Nicolay

Un postiglione Désiré Defrèremaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini


Miss Lucia Jenny DufauSir Edgardo di RavenswoodAristodemo Giorgini

Lord Enrico Asthon Francesco FedericiRaimondo Bidebent Henri ScottLord Arturo Buclaw Emilio Venturini

Alisa Minnie EgenerNormanno Palmiro Aleotti




Gilda Alice ZeppilliSparafucile Henri ScottMaddalena Margaret Keyes






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11/12/13: I gioielli della Madonna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand OperaCompany), hour: 1400: stage director Fernand Almanz

Gennaro Amedeo BassiCarmela Louise BératMaliella Carolina WhiteRafaele Giovanni Polese


Stella Amy EvansConcetta Mabel Riegelman

Serena Minnie EgenerGrazia Rosina Galli




An ice cream vendor Palmiro AleottiA fruit vendor M. Michelof


The town crier Jean de KeyserA young lady Minnie Egener

First young man Nicolo FossettaSecond young manRocco Franzini



The blind man Vittorio TrevisanA peasant woman Katherine Gray

First girl May HamiltonSecond girl Grace Goodrich

First cammorist M. MichelofSecond cammorist Désiré DefrèreFirst morra player Santo Mandelli


A young nurse Katherine GrayA vendor Giovanni Rodondi


11/12/13: Tosca: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:11/03/13

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11/13/13: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company),hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz; stage manager Joseph Engel; assistant stage managerH. G. Moore; stage assistant Samuel Katzman; ballet master Vincenzo Romeo; technical directorWilliam H. Bairstow; scenic artist Peter J. Donigan; chief electrician George Fuller; master ofproperties George Lowe; master of wardrobe Joseph Banasiak; wardrobe mistress A. Frommknecht

Santuzza Alice ZeppilliLola Ruby Heyl

Turiddu Emilio VenturiniAlfio Francesco Federici

Lucia Louise Bératmaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company): stagedirector Fernand Almanz

Canio Amedeo BassiNedda Jane Osborn-HannahTonio Titta RuffoBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Armand Crabbé

maestro direttore Giuseppe Sturanimaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti

11/14/13: La bohème: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Mimì Rosa RaisaRodolfo Giovanni Martinelli

Marcello Francesco FedericiSchaunard Nicolo Fossetta


Alcindoro Vittorio TrevisanMusetta Mabel Riegelman

Parpignol Emilio VenturiniSergente dei doganieri [Rocco Franzini]

Un ufficiale Frank Preischmaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

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11/15/13: Don Quichotte(Jules Massenet), American première: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400: stage director Fernand Almanz; stage manager JosephEngel; assistant stage manager H. G. Moore; stage assistant Samuel Katzman; ballet master VincenzoRomeo; technical director William H. Bairstow; scenic artist Peter J. Donigan; chief electricianGeorge Fuller; master of properties George Lowe; master of wardrobe Joseph Banasiak; wardrobemistress A. Frommknecht

La belle Dulcinée Mary GardenDon Quichotte Vanni MarcouxSancho Panza Hector Dufranne

Pedro Minnie EgenerGarcias Helen Warrum

Rodriguez Emilio VenturiniJuan Edmond Warnery

Le chef de bandits Constantin Nicolay

Deux valets Désiré Defrère

Francesco Daddimaestro direttore Cleofonte Campaninimaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti

11/15/13: Natoma: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Natoma Alice ZeppilliBarbara Jane Osborn-Hannah

Lieutenant Paul Merrill George HamlinDon Francisco Henri ScottFather Peralta Hector Dufranne

Juan Bautista Alvarado Armand CrabbéKagama Constantin Nicolay

Josè Castro Frank PreischChiquita Rosina GalliA voice Minnie Egener

Sergeant Désiré Defrèremaestro direttore Marcel Charlier

11/17/13: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

La gioconda Carolina WhiteLaura Adorno Julia Claussen

Alvise Badoero Henri ScottLa cieca Ruby Heyl

Enzo Grimaldo Amedeo BassiBarnaba Titta Ruffo

Zuàne Nicolo FossettaUn cantore Frank Preisch

Isèpo Emilio Venturinimaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

11/19/13: Don Quichotte: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.), hour: 2000:11/15/13

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11/20/13: Cristoforo Colombo (Alberto Franchetti), American première: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House(Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stage director Fernand Almanz

Cristoforo Colombo Titta RuffoDon Fernan Guevara Amedeo Bassi

Isabella d’Aragona Rosa RaisaDon Roldana Ximenes Gustave Huberdeau

Marguerite Francesco FedericiRoderigo di Triana Edmond Warnery

Matheos Emilio VenturiniUna villanella Ruby Heyl

Tr e romei

Emilio Venturini

Francesco FedericiHenri Scott

Un frate Frank Preisch

Quattro cavalieri

Edmond Warnery

Constantin NicolayNicolo FossettaRalph Errolle


11/20/13: It is possible that Francesco Daddi and Désiré Defrère substitued for Ralph Errolle, Nicolo Fossetta,Frank Preisch or one of the other roles above.

11/21/13: Tosca: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Floria Tosca Mary GardenMario Cavaradossi Aristodemo Giorgini

Il barone Scarpia Giovanni Polesemaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

11/22/13: Cristoforo Colombo: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 1400:11/20/13

11/22/13: I gioielli della Madonna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz: 11/12/13 except:

Gennaro George HamlinTotonno Ralph Errolle

The Chicago-Philadelphia Opera Company returned to Chicago for performances Novemebr 24 - January 31.

11/25/13: Aida: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000: stagedirector Jules Speck; set design Mario Sala, Angelo Parravicini; costume design Maison Chiappa

Il re d’Egitto Giulio RossiAmneris Margarete Matzenauer

Aida Emmy DestinnRadamès Enrico Caruso

Ramfis Léon RothierAmonasro Dinh Gilly

Un messaggero Umberto BedeschiUna sacerdotessa Emma Borniggiamaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

Eva Swain

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12/02/13: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Cio-Cio-San Emmy DestinnB. F. Pinkerton Giovanni Martinelli



Lo zio Yakusidé Lamberto BelleriLo zio Bonzo Bernard Bégué



12/16/13: Tannhäuser: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Hermann Carl BraunTannhäuser Jacques Urlus

Wolfram von EschenbachHermann WeilWalter von der Vogelweide Albert Reiss

Biterolf Carl SchlegelHeinrich der Schreiber Julius Bayer

Reinmar von Zweter Basil RuysdaelElisabeth Johanna Gadski

Venus Olive FremstadEin Hirtenknabe Vera Curtis

Pa g e Louise CoxPa g e Rosina van DyckPa g e Veni WarwickPa g e Adele Giordano


Eva SwainLilyan OgdenJessie Rogge


Mimì Frances AldaRodolfo Enrico Caruso

Marcello Antonio ScottiSchaunard Antonio Pini-Corsi


Paolo AnanianBenoît




Because Andrés de Segurola (Colline), became hoarse during the performance, Caruso sang the aria "Vecchiazimarra."

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19141/06/14: Tristan und Isolde: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 1945

Isolde Johanna GadskiTristan Jacques Urlus

Brangäne Margarete OberKurwenal Hermann Weil

König Marke Carl BraunMelot Carl Schlegel

Ein junger Seemann Lambert MurphyEin Hirt Lambert Murphy

Der Steuermann Julius Bayermaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini


Sarastro Carl BraunTamino Carl Jörn

Sprecher Putnam GriswoldKönigin der Nacht Frieda Hempel

Pamina Emmy DestinnErste Dame der Königin Vera Curtis

Zweite Dame der Königin Lillian EubankDritte Dame der Königin Lila Robeson

Papageno Otto GoritzPapagena Bella Alten

Monostatos Albert ReissErster Knabe Louise Cox

Zweiter Knabe Marie MattfeldDritter Knabe Rosina van Dyck

Erster Priester Lambert MurphyErster geharnischter Mann Paul Althouse

Zweiter geharnischter Mann Basil RuysdaelZweiter Priester Carl SchlegelDritter Priester Julius Bayer


1/29/14: The golden legend(Henry Edward Hodson), American première: Philadelphia, (Philadelphia Operatic Society):stage director Edward S. Grant; ballet performed in the pageant scene Edward German’sThreedances from Henry VIII

Elsie Edna Harwood BaucherThe angel Florence E. Lewis

Ursula Russell King MillerPrince Henry Henry Gurney

Gottlieb Charles L. AndesThe forester Joseph H. Wiley

Lucifer Frederick W. Ayresmaestro direttore unknown

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2/02/14: La sonnambula: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour:2000: Gernand Almanz; stage manager Joseph Engel; assistant stage manager H. G. Moore; balletmaster Vincenzo Romeo; technical director William H. Bairstow; scenic artist Peter J. Donigan; chiefelectrician George Fuller; master of properties George Lowe; master of wardrobe Joseph Banasiak;wardrobe mistress A. Frommknecht

Amina Florence MacbethElvino Aristodemo Giorgini

Il conte Rodolfo Allen HinckleyTeresa Louise Bérat

Lisa Mabel RiegelmanAlessio Vittorio Trevisan

Un notaio Emilio Venturinimaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Canio Amedeo BassiNedda Alice ZeppilliTonio Titta RuffoBeppe Emilio VenturiniSilvio Armand Crabbé


2/03/14: Don Quichotte: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

La belle Dulcinée Mary GardenDon Quichotte Vanni MarcouxSancho Panza Hector Dufranne

Pedro Minnie EgenerGarcias Helen Warrum

Rodriguez Emilio VenturiniJuan Edmond Warnery

Le chef de bandits Constantin Nicolay

Deux valets Charles Meyer

Francesco Daddimaestro direttore Cleofonte Campaninimaestro del coro Pietro Nepoti

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2/04/14: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Carmen Julia ClaussenDon José Lucien MuratoreEscamillo Hector Dufranne

Micaëla Alice ZeppilliFr asquita Amy EvansMercédès Margaret Keyes






Violetta Valéry Frieda HempelAlfredo Germont Aristodemo GiorginiGiorgio Germont Giovanni Polese






2/06/14: Madama Butterfly: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Cio-cio-san Alice ZeppilliSuzuki Margaret Keyes

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2/07/14: Manon: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400:stage director Fernand Almanz

Manon Lescaut Mary GardenIl cavaliere des Grieux Lucien Muratore

Lescaut Hector DufranneLe comte des Grieux Gustave Huberdeau

Guillot de Morfontaine Edmond WarneryDe Brétigny Armand Crabbé

Poussette Helen WarrumJavotte Minnie EgenerRosette Ruby Heyl

Premier garde Jean de KeyserDeuxième garde Désiré Defrère

La servante Louise BératLe portier du séminaire Joseph Demortier

Un joueur Etienne ContessoUn sergent Charles Meyer



Il re d’Egitto Gustave HuberdeauAmneris Cyrena van Gordon

Aida Rosa RaisaRadamès Amedeo Bassi


Un messaggero Emilio VenturiniUna sacerdotessa Mabel Riegelmanmaestro direttore Ettore Perosio



Le docteur Faust Lucien MuratoreMéphistophélès Henri Scott

Marguerite Louise EdvinaValentin Armand Crabbé

Siébel Ruby HeylDame Marthe Schwertlein Louise Bérat


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Floria Tosca Olive FremstadMario Cavaradossi Enrico Caruso



Sciarrone Bernard BéguéUn pastore Sophie Braslau

Un carceriere Paolo Ananianmaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini

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2/10/14: Louise: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Fernand Almanz; ballet master Vincenzo Romeo



La petite chiffonnière Ruby HeylLa glaneuse de charbonEster Reynolds

Le noctambule Edmond WarneryLa plieuse May Hamilton



Le deuxième gardien de la paixEtienne ContessoLe gavroche Mabel Riegelman

La balayeuse Jean de KeyserLe peintre Nicolo Fossetta





Le marchand de carottesEmilio VenturiniLa marchande de mouronMinnie Egener

Un marchand ambulant Désiré DefrèreA dancer Rosina GalliBlanche Angela Demortier

Marguerite Honor WinerSuzanne May Hamilton


Irma Amy EvansÉlise Helen Warrum

Jeanne Lillian RogersMadeleine Anne Sullivan

Le marchand d’habits Francesco DaddiLa première Marjorie Kane

Le pape des fous Emilio VenturiniAn errand girl Mabel Riegelman


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2/11/14: Hérodiade: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Jean Charles DalmorèsHérode Armand Crabbé

Phanuel Gustave HuberdeauVitellius Désiré Defrère


Salomé Carolina WhiteHérodiade Julia Claussen

Une jeune babylonienneMinnie Egenermaestro direttore Marcel Charlier


2/12/14: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz


Nicias Charles DalmorèsPalémon Gustave HuberdeauCrobyle Helen WarrumMyrtale Minnie EgenerAlbine Louise Bérat


2/13/14: Madama Butterfly: Washington, D. C.(Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)2/13/14: Die Walküre: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Siegmund Charles DalmorèsHunding Clarence Whitehill

Wotan Allen HinckleySieglinde Jane Osborn-Hannah

Brünnhilde Minnie Saltzman-StevensFricka Julia Claussen

Ortlinde Minnie EgenerWaltraute Ruby Heyl

Cyrena van GordonBernice WheelerHelen Warrum

Grimgerde Margaret KeyesMabel Riegelman


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2/14/14: Monna Vanna(Henri Février): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Co.), hour: 1400:stage director Fernand Almanz

Monna Vanna Mary GardenPrinzivalle Lucien Muratore

Guido Colonna Vanni MarcouxMarco Colonna Gustave Huberdeau

Vedio Edmond WarneryBorso Etienne Contesso

Torello Désiré DefrèreTrivulzio Constantin Nicolay


2/14/14: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000: stagedirector Fernand Almanz

Cio-cio-san Alice ZeppilliB. F. Pinkerton George Hamlin

Suzuki Margaret KeyesSharpless Clarence Whitehill

Goro Francesco DaddiIl principe Yamadori Vittorio Trevisan

Lo zio Bonzo Désiré DefrèreIl commissario imperiale Constantin Nicolay

Kate Pinkerton Minnie Egenermaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

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2/16/14: Zingari (Leoncavallo): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co.), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Fleana Carolina WhiteRadu Amedeo Bassi

Tamar Francesco FedericiIl vecchio Henri Scott


Les contes d’Hoffmann(Prologue and Acts I, II): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-ChicagoGrand Opera Company): stage director Fernand Almanz

Hoffmann Charles DalmorèsNicklausse Ruby Heyl

Olympia Florence MacbethGiulietta Alice ZeppilliLindorf Désiré Defrère

Coppélius Hector DufranneDapertutto Armand Crabbé


[Fr anzPitichinaccio Emilio Venturini

[Une voix Margaret Keyes]Spalanzani Constantin Nicolay

Hermann Nicolo FossettaSchlémil Désiré Defrère

Nathanaël Emilio VenturiniLuther Frank Preisch

[Crespel Constantin Nicolay]maestro direttore Marcel Charlier

2/16/14: Le jongleur de Notre Dame: Owing to the sudden indisposition ofMiss Mary Garden, the managementwas compelled to change the program. The cast was to have been: Mary Garden/Jean; Dufranne/Boniface;Huberdeau/prior; Warnery/poet; Scott/painter; Nicolay/sculptor; Crabbé/musician; Defrère/buffon; CharlesMeyer/drunken man; De Keyser/knight.

2/17/14: Monna Vanna: New York, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz


Guido Colonna Vanni MarcouxMarco Colonna Gustave Huberdeau

Vedio Edmond WarneryBorso Etienne Contesso



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Gilda Nellie MelbaSparafucile Henri ScottMaddalena Margaret Keyes






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2/19/14: Louise: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000



La petite chiffonnière Ruby HeylLe noctambule Edmond Warnery

La plieuse May HamiltonLa glaneuse de charbonEster Reynolds


Le chiffonnier unknownLe premier gardien de la paix Joseph Demortier

Le deuxième gardien de la paixEtienne ContessoLe gavroche Mabel Riegelman

La balayeuse Jean de KeyserLe peintre Nicolo Fossetta





Le marchand de carottesEmilio VenturiniLa marchande de mouronMinnie Egener

Un marchand ambulant Désiré DefrèreA dancer Rosina GalliBlanche Angela Demortier

Marguerite Honor WinerSuzanne May Hamilton


Irma Amy EvansÉlise Helen Warrum

Jeanne Rose WilsonMadeleine Anna Sullivan

Le marchand d’habits Francesco DaddiLa première Marjorie Kane

An errand girl Mabel RiegelmanLe pape des fous Emilio Venturinimaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

2/19/14: Monna Vanna: Owing to the indisposition of M. Gustave Huberdeau, the management was obliged tocancel the performance ofMonna Vannafor this evening. The cast in the program was: Mary Garden/MonnaVanna; Lucien Muratore/Prinzivalle; Vanni Marcoux/Guido; Huberdeau/Marco; Warnery/Vedio; EtienneContesso/ Borso; Defrère/Torello; Nicolay/Trivulzio.

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2/20/14: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Antonia Mabel RiegelmanHoffmann Charles Dalmorès

2/21/14: Don Giovanni: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.), hour: 1400:stage director Fernand Almanz

Don Giovanni Titta RuffoIl Commendatore Allen Hinckley

Donna Anna Rosa RaisaDonna Elvira Carolina WhiteDon Ottavio Aristodemo Giorgini

Leporello Henri ScottZerlina Alice ZeppilliMasetto Vittorio Trevisan


2/21/14: Tosca: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Almanz

Floria Tosca Alice ZeppilliMario Cavaradossi Charles Dalmorès

Il barone Scarpia Giovanni PoleseCesare Angelotti Constantin Nicolay



Un carceriere Frank Preischmaestro direttore Attilio Parelli

2/23/14: Cristoforo Colombo: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)

Cristoforo Colombo Titta RuffoDon Fernan Guevara Amedeo Bassi

Isabella d’Aragona Rosa RaisaDon Roldana Ximenes Gustave Huberdeau

Marguerite Francesco FedericiRoderigo di Triana Edmond Warnery

Matheos Emilio VenturiniUna villanella Ruby Heyl


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2/24/14: I gioielli della Madonna: New York (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stage directorFernand Almanz



Stella Amy EvansConcetta Mabel Riegelman

Serena Minnie EgenerGrazia Rosina Galli




An ice cream vendor Palmiro AleottiA fruit vendor M. Michelof


The town crier Jean de KeyserA young lady Minnie Egener

First young man Nicolo FossettaSecond young manRocco Franzini



The blind man Vittorio TrevisanA peasant woman Katherine Gray

First girl May HamiltonSecond girl Grace Goodrich

First cammorist M. MichelofSecond cammorist Désiré DefrèreFirst morra player Santo Mandelli


A young nurse Katherine GrayA vendor Giovanni Rodondi


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2/25/14: Manon: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Manon Lescaut Mary GardenLe chevalier des Grieux Lucien Muratore

Lescaut Hector DufranneLe comte des Grieux Gustave Huberdeau

Guillot de Morfontaine Edmond WarneryDe Brétigny Armand Crabbé

Poussette Helen WarrumJavotte Minnie EgenerRosette Ruby Heyl

Premier garde Jean de KeyserDeuxième garde Désiré Defrère

La servante Louise BératLe portier du séminaire Joseph Demortier

Un joueur Etienne ContessoUn sergent Charles Meyer


2/26/14: Cassandra(Vittorio Gnecchi): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand OperaCompany), hour: 1400: stage director Fernand Almanz; stage manager Joseph Engel; stage assistantSamuel Katzman; technical director William H. Bairstow; scenic artist Peter J. Donigan; chiefelectrician George Fuller; master of properties George Lowe; master of wardrobe Joseph Banasiak;wardrobe mistress A. Frommknecht

Clitennestra Rosa RaisaCassandra Julia Claussen

Agamennone Charles DalmorèsEgisto Giovanni Polese

Il prologo Francesco FedericiUna coefora Bernice WheelerIl fazionario Nicolo Fossetta

Il navarca Désiré Defrèremaestro direttore Giuseppe Sturani

I dispettosi amanti(A lover’s quarrel): Philadelphia (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.): stage directorFernand Almanz

Rosaura Alice ZeppilliFlorindo Aristodemo Giorgini

Don Fulgenzio Giovanni PoleseDonna Angelica Louise Bérat


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2/26/14: La bohème: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:stage director Fernand Almanz

Mimì Nellie MelbaRodolfo Amedeo Bassi

Marcello Giovanni PoleseSchaunard Francesco Federici


Alcindoro Vittorio TrevisanMusetta Alice Zeppilli

Parpignol Emilio VenturiniSergente dei doganieri Rocco Franzini

Un ufficiale Frank Preischmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

2/27/14: I gioielli della Madonna: Baltimore (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company)


. . .maestro direttore Ettore Perosio

2/28/14: Hamlet(Italian): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Co.), hour: 1400:stage director Fernand Almanz



La reine Gertrude Julia ClaussenLe spectre Henri ScottMarcellus Edmond Warnery



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Il duca di Mantova Aristodemo GiorginiRigoletto Mario Ancona

Gilda Florence MacbethSparafucile Henri ScottMaddalena Margaret Keyes






After this short season in Philadelphia, the touring company traveled to Cleveland (3/2/14), Dallas (3/4), LosAngeles (3/10), San Francisco (3/16), Seattle (3/30), Portland (4/2), Denver (4/7), Wichita (4/9), Kansas City(4/11), Des Moines (4/13), Omaaha (4/14), St. Joseph (4/15), Saint Louis (4/16), Saint Paul (4/20), Milwaukee(4/23).

3/03/14: Madeleine(Victor Herbert): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., NY), hour: 2015

Madeleine Frances AldaFr ançois Paul AlthouseNichette Lenora Sparkes

Chevalier de Mauprat Antonio Pini-CorsiDidier Andrés de Segurola

Coachman Marcel ReinerServant Armin LauferServant Stefen BuckreusServant Alfred Sappio



Canio Enrico CarusoNedda Bella Alten

Mauprat Antonio Pini-CorsiTonio Pasquale AmatoBeppe Angelo BadàSilvio Vincenzo Reschiglian


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3/10/14: Boris Godunov(Italian): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., NY), hour: 2000

Boris Godunov Adamo DidurFeodor Sophie BraslauXenia Anna Case

Xenia’s nurse Maria DuchènePrince Vassili Ivanovich ShuiskyAngelo Badà

Andrei Shchelkalov Vincenzo ReschiglianPimen Léon Rothier

Grigory / Dimitri Paul AlthouseMarina Mnishek Margarete Ober

Varlaam Andrés de SegurolaMissail Pietro Audisio

Hostess of the inn Jeanne MaubourgThe simpleton Albert Reiss

Nikitch Giulio RossiBoyer in attendance Lambert Murphy

Lavitsky Carl SchlegelChernikovsky Vincenzo Reschiglianrole unknown Bernard Bégué


4/28/14: Les cloches de Corneville(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Strawbridge and Clothier)

Mrs. Logan FelandEdna DanhamLewis James HowellRoyal DadmunFrank Ormsby

The chimes of Normandywas performed with the cantata,The American Flag, by Carl Busch.

4/30/14: Der Zigeunerbaron(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society): stage directorEdward S. Grant; ballet director C. Ellwood Carpenter; interpolated balletThree CzardasbyMichaelis

Graf Peter Homonay E. V. CoffrainConte Carnero William J. Mayer

Sándor Bárinkay Paul VolkmannKálmán Zsupán Horace R. Hood

Arsena Adele HassonMirabella Eva Allen Ritter

Ottokar Ruth E. OswaldCzipra Mabelle Cochran Addison

Saffi Kathryn McGinleyIstvan G. A. Loeben


Rowland AllenDorothy Cook Miller

Hilda Schoch

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5/14/14: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage dir. Joseph Craig Fox

Richard, a pirate chief F. Ashby WallaceSamuel, his lieutenant G. Plantou Middleton

Fr ederic, a pirate apprentice Philip Warren CookeMajor-General Stanley Clarence C. Brinton

Edward, a sergent of police John Clark SimsMabel Mae FarleyEdith Mary Monroe DeckerKate Mildred W. Shattuck

Isabel Sue M. HebertonRuth Helen H. Gillette


5/15/14: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/16/14: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

10/20/14: Martha: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Behrens Opera Club): stage director Edward S. Grant; ballet directorC. Ellwood Carpenter

Lady Harriet Durham Jennie Kneedler JohnsonNancy Mary Josephine Comerford

Lord Tristan Mickleford William M. GoodwinLyonel Joseph S. McGlynn

Plumkett Franklin L. WoodDer Richter zu Richmond Charles D. Cuzner

maestro direttore Thaddeus Rich

10/28/14: Carmen(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 2000: stage directorJoseph C. Engel; ballet master Walter G. Wroe

Carmen Vi vienne SegalDon José George RothermelEscamillo Horace R. Hood

Micaëla Adelina Patti NoarFr asquita Adele HassonMercédès Louise Hutchinson

Zuniga Wiltbank Knee William J. Mayer

Moralès Charles L. AndesLe Dancaïre E. V. Coffrain

Le Remendado Oswald F. Blakemaestro direttore Wassili Leps

Marguerite Edna Wroe

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11/02/14: Sári (Emmerich Kálmán), English: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Henry W. Savage), hour: 2015

Pali Racz J. K. MurrayLaczi Howard W. MarshSári Mizzi Hajos

Klari Billie BuschJoska Fekete Albert Hedges

Juliska Fekete Irene PawloskaGaston, Count Irini Charles Meakins

Cadeaux, his shadow Bert GilbertCount Estragou Jack SquiresCount Mastari Robert Buchannan

Pierre Harry Crapomaestro direttore unknown

11/03/14: Sári: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Henry W. Savage), hour: 141511/03/14: Sári: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Henry W. Savage), hour: 201511/04/14: Sári: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Henry W. Savage), hour: 141511/04/14: Sári: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Henry W. Savage), hour: 201511/05/14: Sári: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Henry W. Savage), hour: 201511/06/14: Sári: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Henry W. Savage), hour: 201511/07/14: Sári: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Henry W. Savage), hour: 141511/07/14: Sári: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Henry W. Savage), hour: 2015

Sáricontinued to run for another two weeks with matinées on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

11/24/14: Tosca: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000: stagedirector Jules Speck

Floria Tosca Geraldine FarrarMario Cavaradossi Giovanni Martinelli


Il sagrestano Paolo AnanianSpoletta Angelo Badà


Un carceriere Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Arturo Toscanini


La gioconda Emmy DestinnEnzo Grimaldo Enrico Caruso

Singer Vincenzo ReschiglianLaura Adorno Margarete Matzenauer


La cieca Maria DuchèneZuàne Bernard BéguéIsèpo Pietro Audisio

Un cantore Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

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12/07/14: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (New York Hippodrome, Samuel F. Nixon), hour: 2015

The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B.Herbert SalingerCaptain Corcoran Bertram PeacockRalph Rackstraw Vernon Dalhart

Dick Deadeye, able seamanAlbert HartBill Bobstay, boatswain E. Percy Parsons

Bob Becket, boatswain’s mateunknownTom Tucker unknown

Josephine Ruby Cutter SavageHebe Natalie Ewald

Little Buttercup Marie Horganmaestro direttore unknown


Heinrich der Vogler Basil RuysdaelLohengrin Jacques Urlus

Elsa von Brabant Johanna GadskiFriedrich von Telramund Hermann Weil

Ortrud Margarete MatzenauerDer Heerrufer des Königs Arthur Middleton


Julius Bayer

Ludwig BurgstallerAdolf FuhrmannCarl Bitterl

Vier Edelknaben

Louise Cox

Rosina van DyckMinnie EgenerVeni Warwick


12/08/14: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (New York Hippodrome), hour: 201512/09/14: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (New York Hippodrome), hour: 141512/09/14: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (New York Hippodrome), hour: 201512/10/14: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (New York Hippodrome), hour: 201512/11/14: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (New York Hippodrome), hour: 201512/12/14: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (New York Hippodrome), hour: 141512/12/14: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (New York Hippodrome), hour: 2015

H. M. S. Pinaforecontinued its run for one more week with Wednesday and Saturday matinées.


Il re d’Egitto Giulio RossiAmneris Maria Duchène

Aida Marie RappoldRadamès Enrico Caruso


Un messaggero Pietro AudisioUna sacerdotessa Emma Borniggiamaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

Rosina Galli

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Sarastro Carl BraunTamino Jacques Urlus

Sprecher Carl SchlegelKönigin der Nacht Frieda Hempel

Pamina Johanna GadskiErste Dame der Königin Vera Curtis

Zweite Dame der Königin Rita ForniaDritte Dame der Königin Lila Robeson

Papageno Otto GoritzPapagena Anna Case


Zweiter Knabe Louise CoxDritter Knabe Marie Mattfeld

Erster Priester Julius BayerZweiter Priester Max Blochmaestro direttore Alfred Hertz


Cio-Cio-San Geraldine FarrarB. F. Pinkerton Giovanni Martinelli

Suzuki Rita ForniaSharpless Riccardo Teg ani



Il commissario imperiale Vincenzo ReschiglianKate Pinkerton Minnie Egener


19151/12/15: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Santuzza Emmy DestinnLola Maria Duchène

Turiddu Luca BottaAlfio Riccardo Teg ani

Lucia Marie Mattfeldmaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco


Canio Enrico CarusoNedda Lucrezia BoriTonio Pasquale AmatoBeppe Pietro AudisioSilvio Riccardo Teg ani


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1/21/15: The serenade(Victor Herbert): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic Society, CelesteD. Heckseher), hour: 2000: stage director Joseph C. Engel

Yvonne Emily Stokes HagarDelores Marie Stone Langston

The duke of Santa CruzHorace R. HoodCarlo Alvarado Edward C. Coffrain

Romeo Frank M. ConlyLopez Paul Volkmann

Gomez Charles J. ShuttleworthColombo Oswald F. Blake

maestro direttore Victor Herbert


Boris Godunov Adamo DidurFeodor Raymonde DelaunoisXenia Louise Cox

Xenia’s nurse Maria DuchènePrince Vassili Ivanovich ShuiskyAngelo Badà


Grigory Otrepiev / Dimitri Paul AlthouseMarina Mnishek Margarete Ober


Hostess of the inn Marie MattfeldThe simpleton Albert Reiss

Nikitch Giulio RossiLavitsky Vincenzo Reschiglian

Chernikovsky Carl SchlegelBoyer in attendance Leopoldo Mariani

role unknown Max Blochrole unknown Bernard Bégué


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1/27/15: Die Zauberflöte, English: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Behrens Opera Club), hour: 2000: stage directorEdward S. Grant

Sarastro Rodolph SternbergTamino Paul J. Breedy

Königin der Nacht Viola BrodbeckPamina Mae Farley

Papageno Donald ReddingPapagena Jane Rutherford

Priester Russell Spruanceroles unknown: Florence Cranmer

Ida B. WiedenerMrs. A. BolteMabel KlineFrances AtkinsonDora H. YoungRoyal L. MacLellanSamuel SutterB. W. Poland, Jr.

maestro direttore Ludwig Schmidt-Fabri

Die Puppenfée(Josef Bayer, ballet): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Behrens Opera Club): ballet director C.Ellwood Carpenter

Old toy maker C. Ellwood CarpenterFairy doll Dorothy Cook Miller

Jack in the box C. Ellwood Carpenter, Jr.roles unknown: Florence Huet

Leslie Kellymaestro direttore John Curtis, Jr.

2/09/15: Die Walküre: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1945

Siegmund Jacques UrlusHunding Basil Ruysdael

Wotan Hermann WeilSieglinde Johanna Gadski

Brünnhilde Melanie KurtFricka Margarete Matzenauer

Gerhilde Elisabeth SchumannOrtlinde Vera Curtis

Waltraute Florence MulfordSchwertleite Maria Duchène

Helmwige Lenora SparkesSiegrune Marie Mattfeld

Grimgerde Lila RobesonRoßweiße Rita Fornia


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2/23/15: Madame Sans-Gêne(Giordano): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, NY),hour: 2000

Caterina Hubscher Geraldine FarrarLefebvre Giovanni Martinelli

Fouché Andrés de SegurolaGelsomino Riccardo Teg ani

Napoleone Bonaparte Pasquale AmatoToniotta Lenora Sparkes

Giulia Rita ForniaLa Rossa Marie Mattfeld

Il conte di Neipperg Paul AlthouseVinaigre Max Bloch

La regina Carolina Vera CurtisLa principessa Elisa Minnie Egener

Despréaux Angelo BadàLeroy Robert Leonhardt

De Brigode Vincenzo ReschiglianRoustan Bernard Bégué


3/01/15: Aida: Philadelphia, Garrick Theatre (San Carlo Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il re d’Egitto Emilio SesonaAmneris Carolina Zawner

Aida Esther AdabertoRadamès Giuseppe Agostini

Ramfis Natale CerviAmonasro Alessandro Modesti

Un messaggero Luciano RossiniUna sacerdotessa unknownmaestro direttore Giuseppe Angelini

3/02/15: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Garrick Theatre (San Carlo Opera Company), hour: 2015

Miss Lucia Edvirge VaccariSir Edgardo di RavenswoodSalvatore Sciaretti

Lord Enrico Asthon Angelo AntolaRaimondo Bidebent Natale CerviLord Arturo Buclaw Luciano Rossini

Alisa Anita SedelmayerNormanno unknown


3/03/15: Faust: Philadelphia, Garrick Theatre (San Carlo Opera Company), matinée

Le docteur Faust Alfredo GrazianiMéphistophélès Emilio Sesona

Marguerite Marie KaestnerValentin unknown

Siébel unknownDame Marthe Schwertlein Carolina Zawner

Wa gner Angelo Antolamaestro direttore unknown

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3/03/15: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Garrick Theatre (San Carlo Opera Company), hour: 2015

Santuzza Marie KaestnerLola unknown

Turiddu Salvatore SciarettiAlfio Angelo Antola

Lucia unknownmaestro direttore Giuseppe Angelini

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Garrick Theatre (San Carlo Opera Company)

Canio Giuseppe AgostiniNedda Anita SedelmayerTonio Angelo AntolaBeppe unknownSilvio Luigi della Molle

maestro direttore Giuseppe Angelini

3/04/15: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Garrick Theatre (San Carlo Opera Company), hour: 20153/05/15: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Garrick Theatre (San Carlo Opera Company), hour: 2015

La gioconda Esther AdabertoLaura Adorno Annette Chabot

Alvise Badoero Emilio SesonaLa cieca Carolina Zawner

Enzo Grimaldo Giuseppe AgostiniBarnaba Alessandro Modesti

Zuàne Natale CerviUn cantore unknown

Isèpo Luciano RossiniUn pilota Antonio

Un monaco unknownmaestro direttore Giuseppe Angelini

3/06/15: Martha: Philadelphia, Garrick Theatre (San Carlo Opera Company), matinée3/06/15: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Garrick Theatre (San Carlo Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il conte di Luna Alessandro ModestiLeonora Marie KaestnerAzucena Carolina ZawnerManrico Giuseppe Agostini

Ferrando Emilio SesonaInes Anita SedelmayerRuiz Luciano Rossini


3/08/15: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, De Wolf Hopper)

The Mikado of Japan Arthur CunninghamNanki-Poo Arthur Aldridge

Ko-Ko De Wolf HopperPoo-Bah Herbert Waterous

Pish-Tush John WillardYum-Yum Idelle PattersonPitti-Sing Gladys CaldwellPeep-Bo Alice McCombKatisha Marie Horgan


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3/09/15: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company)3/10/15: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company), matinée

The learned judge De Wolf Hopper

H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company)

Dick Deadeye, able seamanDe Wolf Hopper

3/10/15: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company)H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company)

3/11/15: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company)

Richard, a pirate chief Herbert WaterousSamuel, his lieutenant John Ward

Fr ederic, a pirate apprentice Arthur AldridgeMajor-General Stanley Arthur Cunningham

Edward, a sergent of police De Wolf HopperMabel Idelle Patterson

[Edith] Alice McComb[Kate] Una Brooks

[Isabel] Maude MordauntRuth Marie Horgan


3/12/15: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company)3/13/15: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company), matinée3/13/15: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company)3/15/15: The Yeomen of the Guard: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Co.), hour: 2015

Colonel Fairfax Arthur AldridgeSergeant Meryll Herbert Waterous

Jack Point De Wolf HopperElsie Maynard Idelle PattersonPhoebe Meryll Gladys Caldwellroles unknown: Arthur Cunningham

John WillardHugh DwyerWilliam QuimbyMarie HorganAlice McComb


3/16/15: The Yeomen of the Guard: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Co.), hour: 20153/17/15: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company), hour: 14153/17/15: The sorcerer: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company), hour: 2015

John Wellington Wells De Wolf Hoppermaestro direttore unknown

Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, De Wolf Hopper)

The learned judge De Wolf Hopper

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3/18/15: Iolanthe: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company), hour: 2015

The Lord Chancellor De Wolf HopperLord Mountararat Arthur Cunningham

Earl Tolloller Arthur AldridgePrivate Willis, of the Grenadier GuardsHerbert Waterous

Queen of the fairies Marie HorganIolanthe Gladys Caldwell

Leila Alice McCombPhyllis, an arcadian shepherdessIdelle Patterson


3/19/15: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company), hour: 20153/20/15: The Yeomen of the Guard: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Co.), hour: 14153/20/15: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company), hour: 20153/23/15: L’amore dei tre re: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2015

Fiora Lucrezia BoriArchibaldo Adamo Didur

Avito Edoardo Ferrari-FontanaManfredo Pasquale AmatoFlaminio Angelo Badà

Un’ancella Minnie EgenerUna giovanetta Sophie Braslau

Una vecchia Maria DuchèneUn giovanetto Pietro Audisiorole unknown Elsa Foerster


4/20/15: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Carmen Geraldine FarrarDon José Giovanni MartinelliEscamillo Pasquale Amato

Micaëla Frances AldaFr asquita Lenora SparkesMercédès Sophie Braslau

Zuniga Léon RothierMoralès Désiré Defrère

Le Dancaïre Robert LeonhardtLe Remendado Angelo Badà


Rosina Galli

4/21/15: Faust(English): Philadelphia (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 1945: stage director Joseph C. Engel; balletdirector Albert W. Newman; costumes Miller Costumier

Le docteur Faust George RothermelMéphistophélès Frederick W. Ayres

Marguerite Mrs. Logan FelandValentin F. Willard Cornman, Jr.

Siébel Vi vienne SegalDame Marthe Schwertlein Marie Loughney

Wa gner L. Wiltbank Keenemaestro direttore Wassili Leps

première danseuse Marie Kolb

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4/22/15: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Bellevue-Stratford (Matinee Musical Club, Helen Pulaski Innes): stage d. E. S. Grant

The learned judge Henry HotzThe defendant (Edwin) Henry Heren

Counsel for the plaintiff Harry EbryUsher Charles D. Cuzner

Foreman of the jury Chaston MillerThe plaintiff (Angelina) Jennie Kneedler Johnson

maestro direttore Effie Leland Golz

Harlequin and Columbine(pantomime): Philadelphia, Bellevue-Stratford (Matinee Musical Club)

Dancing girl Ella NeeleyColumbine Leah RamseyHarlequin Benjamin Kutchner

Pierrot Robert LockerDoctor J. Buchanan

4/27/15: Les contes d’Hoffmann, English: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Behrens Opera Club, John Curtis), hour:2000: stage director C. Ellwood Carpenter

Hoffmann Oswald F. BlakeNicklausse Louise de Ginther

Olympia Jennie Kneedler JohnsonAntonia Sara Richards Jones

Giulietta Mary BarrettCoppélius Homer Lind Samuel H. Lipschutz

Dr. Miracle Homer Lind Samuel H. Lipschutz

Dapertutto Antonio O. ScarduzioCochenille Marion Cheney

Fr antz Marion CheneyPitichinaccio Marion Cheney

La mère d’Antonia Zipporah RosenbergSpalanzani John B. Becker

Hermann Russell SpruanceSchlémil Russell Spruance

Nathanaël Charles SchabingerLuther Charles D. Cuzner

Crespel Russell Spruancemaestro direttore Cesare Sturani

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5/13/15: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage director Joseph Craig Fox

The learned judge Clarence C. BrintonThe defendant (Edwin) Philip Warren Cooke

Counsel for the plaintiff William Baird Keeper, IIUsher Benjamin D. Mosser

Foreman of the jury George D. BordaThe plaintiff (Angelina) Helen Buchanan

maestro direttore Camille W. Zeckwer

The sorcerer: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

Sir Marmaduke Poindextre Russell SpruanceAlexis Philip Warren Cooke

Doctor Daly G. Plantou MiddletonNotary Isaac H. Jones

John Wellington Wells Clarence C. BrintonLady Sangazure Helen H. Gillette

Aline Helen BuchananMrs. Partlett Mary Monroe Decker

Constance Alberta W. Brintonmaestro direttore Camille W. Zeckwer

5/14/15: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)The sorcerer: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

5/15/15: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)The sorcerer: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

6/19/15: Trial by Jury: Arden, Delaware, Guild Hall (The Savo yCompany): accompanist Mrs. Edith Mahon

The learned judge G. Plantou Middleton

11/08/15: L’amore dei tre re: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Ryszard Ordynski; stage manager Louis Verande; scenery Joseph Urban

Fiora Luisa VillaniArchibaldo José Mardones

Avito Giovanni ZenatelloManfredo Georges BaklanoffFlaminio Ernesto Giaccone

Un’ancella Elizabeth CampbellUna giovanetta Fely ClementUn giovanetto Enrico Nava

Una vecchia Elvira Leveronimaestro direttore Roberto Moranzonimaestro del coro Amedeo Barbieri

Snowflakes(from Nutcracker): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Pavlowa Ballet Russe)Anna Pavlowa

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11/09/15: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Ryszard Ordynski; stage manager Louis Verande

Cio-cio-san Tamaki MiuraB. F. Pinkerton Riccardo Martin

Suzuki Elvira LeveroniSharpless Thomas Chalmers

Goro Ernesto GiacconeIl principe Yamadori Giorgio Puliti

Lo zio Bonzo Paolo AnanianKate Pinkerton Elizabeth Campbell

maestro direttore Agide Jacchiamaestro del coro Amedeo Barbieri

Elysian Fields(from Gluck:Orfeo ed Euridice): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Pavlowa Ballet Russe):choreography Ivan Clustine; scenery Joseph Urban

Orpheus Maria GayEurydice Phyllis Peralta

Anna Pavlowa, Alexandre Volinine, corps de ballet

maestro direttore Adolph Schmid

11/10/15: Ballet:Die Puppenfée: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Pavlowa Ballet Russe), hour: 1400Anna Pavlowa

Inviatation to the Dance: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Pavlowa Ballet Russe)Anna Pavlowa

Divertissment: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Pavlowa Ballet Russe)Anna Pavlowa

11/10/15: La muette de Portici: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

Masaniello Giovanni ZenatelloAlphonse Georgi Michailoff

Pietro Thomas ChalmersFenella Anna Pavlowa

Elvira, the princess Felice LyneLorenzo Palmiro Aleotti

Silva Giorgio PulitiBorella Paolo AnanianEmma Fely Clement

maestro direttore Agide Jacchia

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11/11/15: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stage directorRyszard Ordynski; stage manager Louis Verande; choreography Ivan Clustine

Carmen Maria GayDon José Riccardo MartinEscamillo José Mardones

Micaëla Bianca SaroyaFr asquita Belle GottschalkMercédès Fely Clement

Zuniga Alfred KaufmanMoralès Giorgio Puliti

Le Dancaïre Paolo AnanianLe Remendado Romeo Boscacci

maestro direttore Roberto Moranzonimaestro del coro Amedeo Barbieri

Act II, La dance bohemienne: Mlles. Kuhn, Fredova, Verina, Lindovskaia, Cortnova, Saxova

Act IV, Entracte: Anna Pavlowa

Bolero: Mlles. Butsova, Crombova, Leggierova, FredovaLindovskaia, Cortnova, Shelton, Saxova, Florence

Brunova, Stuart, Daganova, CollinetteMM. Zalewski, Loboiko, Domoslovski, Marini, Hubart

Baine, Veseloff, Marum

Farandole: Mlle. Plaskovietzkaia,Mlle. Kuhn,M. Kobeleff,M. Vajinski

Ole’: Anna Pavlowa, Alexandre Volinine, corps de ballet

11/12/15: Tosca: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stage directorRyszard Ordynski; stage manager Louis Verande

Floria Tosca Luisa VillaniMario Cavaradossi Giovanni Zenatello

Il barone Scarpia Georges BaklanoffCesare Angelotti Alfred Kaufman

Il sagrestano Paolo AnanianSpoletta Romeo Boscacci

Sciarrone Giorgio PulitiUn pastore Fely Clement

Un carceriere Luigi Tostimaestro direttore Agide Jacchiamaestro del coro Amedeo Barbieri

Egyptian Ballet(music by Luigini): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Pavlowa Ballet Russe): arrangedby Ivan Clustine

Anna Pavlowa, Alexandre Volininemaestro direttore: Adolph Schmid

11/13/15: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400



maestro direttore Agide Jacchia

Snowflakes(from Nutcracker): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Pavlowa Ballet Russe)Anna Pavlowa

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11/13/15: Otello: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston Grand Opera Co.), hour: 2000: scenery Joseph Urban

Otello Giovanni ZenatelloJa go Georges Baklanoff

roles unknown: Alfred KaufmanPaolo Ananian

Desdemona Maggie TeyteEmilia Elvira Leveroni

maestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

Ballet Divertissement: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Pavlowa Ballet Russe)11/18/15: Madama Butterfly(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 2000: stage

director John Luther Long; stage manager Earle W. Marshall; ballet master Albert W. Newman;organist Clifford Vaughn; costumes Van Horn & Son; wigs and make-up A. M. Buch & Co.

Cio-cio-san May Ebrey HotzB. F. Pinkerton Paul Volkmann

Suzuki Beatrice CollinSharpless Horace R. Hood

Goro Samuel H. LipschutzIl principe Yamadori E. V. Coffrain

Lo zio Yakusidé Edw. A. DaviesLo zio Bonzo William J. Mayer

Il commissario imperiale F. Willard Cornman, Jr.Kate Pinkerton E. Myrtle Dunn

L’ufficiale del registro G. A. LoebenLa madre di Cio-cio-san Sara R. Murphy

La zia di Cio-cio-san Helen FitzpatrickLa cugina Julia E. Stewart

Dolore Alger Lawtonmaestro direttore Wassili Leps

11/23/15: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Il conte di Luna Pasquale AmatoLeonora Marie RappoldAzucena Margarete OberManrico Giovanni Martinelli

Ferrando Léon RothierInes Marie MattfeldRuiz Angelo Badà

Un vecchio zingaro Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

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11/30/15: Manon: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000: stagedirector Jules Speck; set design Antonio Rovescalli; costume design Maison Chiappa

Manon Frances AldaLe chevalier des Grieux Enrico Caruso

Lescaut Antonio ScottiLe comte des Grieux Léon Rothier

Count des Grieux Léon RothierGuillot de Morfontaine Albert Reiss

De Brétigny Andrés de SegurolaPoussette Lenora Sparkes

Javotte Sophie BraslauRosette Maria Duchène

L’hôtelier Robert LeonhardtPremier garde Vincenzo Reschiglian

Deuxième garde Bernard BéguéLa servante Maria Savage



Heinrich der Vogler Carl BraunLohengrin Jacques Urlus

Elsa von Brabant Marie RappoldFriedrich von Telramund Hermann Weil

Ortrud Margarete MatzenauerDer Heerrufer des Königs Carl Schlegel


Julius Bayer

Ludwig BurgstallerAdolf FuhrmannCarl Bitterl

Vier Edelknaben

Louise Cox

Rosina van DyckFrieda MartinVeni Warwick

maestro direttore Artur Bodanzky

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12/14/15: Der Rosenkavalier: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Die Feldmarschallin Frieda HempelDer Baron Ochs auf LerchenauOtto Goritz

Octavian Margarete OberHerr von Faninal Hermann Weil

Sophie Edith MasonJungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin Rita Fornia

Valzacchi Albert ReissAnnina Marie Mattfeld

Ein Polizeikommissar Carl SchlegelDer Haushofmeister bei der FeldmarschallinPietro Audisio

Der Haushofmeister bei Faninal Max BlochEin Notar Basil Ruysdael

Ein Wirt Julius BayerEin Sänger Paul Althouse

Drei adelige Waisen

Louise Cox

Rosina van DyckSophie Braslau

Eine Modistin Frieda MartinEin Tierhändler Alfred Sappio

Leopold Ludwig BurgstallerDen Mohammed Gloria Dubinskymaestro direttore Artur Bodanzky

12/21/15: Un ballo in maschera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour:2000: stage director Jules Speck; set design Mario Sala; costume design Giuseppe Palanti

Riccardo Enrico CarusoRenato Pasquale AmatoAmelia Melanie KurtUlrica Maria DuchèneOscar Edith Mason

Silvano Vincenzo ReschiglianSamuel Andrés de Segurola

Tom Léon RothierUn giudice Angelo Badà

Un servitore di Amelia Angelo Badàmaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco


Floria Tosca Emmy DestinnMario Cavaradossi Giovanni Martinelli

Il barone Scarpia Giuseppe de LucaCesare Angelotti Giulio Rossi

Il sagrestano Pompilio MalatestaSpoletta Angelo Badà


Un carceriere Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Gaetano Bavagnoli

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12/31/15: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000: stagemanager Louis Verande



Goro Romeo BoscacciIl principe Yamadori Giorgio Puliti

Lo zio Bonzo Paolo AnanianKate Pinkerton Maria Lara

maestro direttore Agide Jacchiamaestro del coro Amedeo Barbieri

Snowflakes(from Nutcracker): (Pavlowa Ballet Russe): choreography Ivan Clustine; scenery Joseph UrbanValse of Snowflakes: Mlles. Plaskovietzka, Kuhn, Butsova, Collinette, VerinaGriffova, Crombova, Leggierova, Fredova, Lindovskaia, Brunova, Naumova

Schelton, Stuart, Doganova, Cortnova, Saxova, FlorenceMM. Vajinski, Kobeleff, Zalewski, Loboiko, Domislavski, Marini

Baine, Hubart, Veseloff, Marum

Pas de deux: Anna Pavlowa, Alexandre Volinine

Pas de cinque: Mlles. Plaskovietzka, Crombova, Leggierova, Stuart, Doganova

Variations: Anna Pavlowa, Alexandre Volinine

Pas de troi: Mlles. Butsova, Collinette, Griffova

Coda: Anna Pavlowa, Alexandre Volinine, corps de ballet

maestro direttore Adolph Schmid

19161/01/16: Ballet:Die Puppenfée: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Pavlowa Ballet Russe), hour: 1400

L’Ecole en Crinoline(music by Chaminade)Divertissements(Lewandowski, Drigo, Lincke, Chopin, Winiawski, Paderewski, J. Strauss, Glazounow)

The Inquirer’s review of the performance says ‘‘Die Puppenféewas followed by Mrs. Christian Hemmick’sL’Ecole en Crinoline. A selection of beautifulDivertissementsincluded Lincke’s favorite Gsvotte, Paderewski’spopular Minuet, and Strauss’ Blue Danbue waltz concluded the programme.’’

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1/01/16: Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston Grand Opera Company): stage man. Louis Verande

Canio Giovanni ZenatelloNedda Maggie TeyteTonio Georges BaklanoffBeppe Romeo BoscacciSilvio Giorgio Puliti


Coppelia (ballet: Leo Delibes): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Pavlowa Ballet Russe): arranged byIvan Clustine; scenery by Joseph Urban

Swanilda Anna PavlowaFr antz Alexandre Volinine

Coppelius Jan ZalewskiFriends of Swanilda: Mlles. Plaskovietzka, Butsova, Collinette

Stuart, Griffova, Crombova, Doganova, Leggierovamaestro direttore Adolph Schmid


Sarastro Henri ScottTamino Jacques Urlus

Sprecher Carl SchlegelKönigin der Nacht Frieda Hempel

Pamina Marie RappoldErste Dame der Königin Vera Curtis

Zweite Dame der Königin Julia HeinrichDritte Dame der Königin Lila Robeson

Papageno Otto GoritzPapagena Edith Mason


Zweiter Knabe Louise CoxDritter Knabe Marie Mattfeld

Erster geharnischter Mann Basil RuysdaelErster Priester Max Bloch

Zweiter Priester Julius Bayermaestro direttore Artur Bodanzky



Marcello Antonio ScottiSchaunard Riccardo Teg ani

Colline Andrés de SegurolaBenoît Pompilio Malatesta

Alcindoro Robert LeonhardtMusetta Ida Cajatti


maestro direttore Gaetano Bavagnoli

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1/27/16: Pa gliacci(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 1945: stage managerEarle W. Marshall; costumes Van Horn & Son; wigs M. Buch & Co.; house manager Wm. J. Parker;master of properties Wallace H. Dickhart; mistress of wardrobeMrs. Anna M. Upp

Canio Paul VolkmannNedda Helen BuchananTonio Samuel H. LipschutzBeppe Edward Shippen van LeerSilvio E. V. Coffrain


Dances of the Pyrenees(ballet by Celeste D. Heckscher): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia OperaticSociety): ballet master Albert W. Newman

Perdita M. Karlene FranzAlonzo Walter Setzler

Mother Gulda Marie G. LoughneySancho Frances S. MarklandDrigo William J. Mayer

Burgomaster E. T. ButterworthShepherd (Bernardo) F. Willard Cornman, Jr.

Prince (Francois) F. Willard Cornman, Jr.Duke Athaulf E. J. Brown

Princess Gabrielle Elvina GrovinoffFlower girl Anna Peters

Spirit of dawn Rose Hoffman

Sequidilla(Act I): Mabel A. Hutton, Leonette RehfussHelen R. Kirk, Adelaide Long, Eleanor W. Conway, Louise Holman

Helen M. Eustace, Dorothea B. Wright, Thusnelda E. TholeyE. Francis Hannington, Sara D. Ferris, Frances Butterworth

Frances Newcomb, Katherine Ruscolloe, Lilian Pile, Mary N. Ward

Fr ench Court Dance: C. Anita Preston, Mabel C. BocklemanMildred A. Pidgeon, Eleanor W. Borden, Emma R. Hamsher

Lillian L. Weber, Isabel Jackson, Mary P. ZesingerC. Joseph Bigham, Elwood A. Geiges, John Scarvy

Arthur L. Mortensen, Vernon Meyers, Robert J. SchenkelWilliam F. Olsen, Elmer M. Godshall

Act II:Pastorale and Spirit of Dawn: Rose Hoffman

Asiatic Dance: Marie Bradley, Ethel Short, Anna PetersRuth Walrath, Madeline Coltridge, Maud Miller, Jean Davis

Helen Underdown, Dorothy Underdown, Louisa Segal

Bolero: Hilda Schoch, Blanche Sinn, Adelaide LongKatherine Morris, Gertrude Trik, Maybelle Weber, H. D. Burk

Helen R. Kirk, Marion Garret, Vera Segal, Effie MarcusDella Carpenter, Edna Knaphle, Eleanor W. Conway, Louise Holman

Dorothea B. Wright, Thusnelda E. Tholey, Mabel A. Hutton, Sara D. FerrisDorothy S. Howell, E. Francis Hannington, Vera Walrath

Katherine Ruscolloe, Marion Jones, Leonette Rehfuss, Karlene FranzRebe Klein, Lilian Pile, Helen M. Eustace, Frances Butterworth

Frances Newcomb, Mary N. Ward

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2/08/16: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., NY), hour: 2000

Lord Enrico Asthon Pasquale AmatoMiss Lucia Maria Barrientos

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodGiovanni MartinelliLord Arturo Buclaw Angelo BadàRaimondo Bidebent Léon Rothier

Alisa Minnie EgenerNormanno Pietro Audisio


2/17/16: Die Fledermaus: Philadelphia, Little Theatre (Fabri Opera Company): members of Philadelphia Orchestra

Prinz Orlofsky Jane Rutherfordmaestro direttore Ludwig Schmidt-Fabri

2/24/16: Zar und Zimmermann, English: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Behrens Opera Club): stage director LeoWright; ballet director C. Ellwood Carpenter

Peter I. Russell SpruancePeter Iwanow John B. Becker

van Bett Rodolph SternbergMarie Katherine T. G. Wales

Witwe Browe Ethel Q. BatezellMarquis von Chateauneuf Henry Gurney

Admiral Lefort Fred. HackenbergerLord Syndham George A. Mahl

maestro direttore Karl Schneider

2/29/16: Madame Sans-Gêne(Giordano): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, NY),hour: 2000: stage director Jules Speck; set design Antonio Rovescalli; costume design Caramba

Caterina Hubscher Geraldine FarrarLefebvre Giovanni Martinelli

Fouché Andrés de SegurolaGelsomino Riccardo Teg ani

Napoleone Bonaparte Pasquale AmatoToniotta Lenora Sparkes

Giulia Rita ForniaLa Rossa Sophie Braslau

Il conte di Neipperg Paul AlthouseVinaigre Max Bloch

La regina Carolina Vera CurtisLa principessa Elisa Minnie Egener

Despréaux Angelo BadàLeroy Robert Leonhardt

De Brigode Vincenzo ReschiglianRoustan Bernard Bégué


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3/07/16: Tristan und Isolde: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 1930

Isolde Johanna GadskiTristan Jacques Urlus

Brangäne Louise HomerKurwenal Hermann Weil

König Marke Carl BraunMelot Carl Schlegel

Ein junger Seemann Max BlochEin Hirt Max Bloch

Der Steuermann Julius Bayermaestro direttore Artur Bodanzky

3/09/16: Zar und Zimmermann, English: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Behrens Opera Club), hour: 2015:stage director Leo Wright; ballet director C. Ellwood Carpenter; sets from Metropolitan Opera, NY

Peter I. Russell SpruancePeter Iwanow John B. Becker

van Bett Rodolph SternbergMarie Katherine T. G. Wales

Witwe Browe Ethel Q. BatezellMarquis von Chateauneuf Henry Gurney

Admiral Lefort Fred. HackenbergerLord Syndham George A. Mahl

maestro direttore Karl Schneidermaestro del coro Stanley Muschamp

3/14/16: Hänsel und Gretel: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Hänsel Marie MattfeldGretel Edith Mason

Die Knusperhexe Albert ReissGertrud Lila Robeson

Peter Otto GoritzSandmännchen Helen WarrumTaumännchen Lenora Sparkes

maestro direttore Richard Hageman


Canio Enrico CarusoNedda Ida CajattiTonio Giuseppe de LucaBeppe Pietro AudisioSilvio Riccardo Teg ani


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3/21/16: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Il conte d’Almaviva Giacomo DamaccoIl dottore Bartolo Pompilio Malatesta

Rosina Maria BarrientosFigaro Giuseppe de Luca

Don Basilio Adamo DidurFiorello Vincenzo Reschiglian

Berta Marie MattfeldUn ufficiale Pietro Audisio



3/28/16: Die Meistersinger: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 1930

Hans Sachs Hermann WeilVeit Pogner Herbert Witherspoon

Kunz Vogelgesang Max BlochKonrad Nachtigall Robert LeonhardtSixtus BeckmesserOtto Goritz

Fritz Kothner Carl SchlegelBalthasar Zorn Julius Bayer

Ulrich Eißlinger Charles GardenAugustin Moser Pietro AudisioHermann Ortel Riccardo Teg aniHans Schwarz Adolf Fuhrmann

Hans Foltz Basil RuysdaelWalter von Stolzing Jacques Urlus


Magdalene Marie MattfeldEin Nachtwächter Robert Leonhardtmaestro direttore Artur Bodanzky

4/10/16: Alone at Last(Franz Lehár,Endlich Allein): Philadelphia, Lyric Theatre (Messrs. Schubert): hour: 2015

Morel, hotel manager John WheelerHans Ketterer Edmund Mulcahy

Count Max Splenningen Harry ConorCount Willigard Roy Artwell

Mrs. Phoebe Cloverdale Elizabeth GoodallDolly Cloverdale Beth Lydy

Baron Franz von Hansen John Charles ThomasTilly Dachau Letty Yorke

Yvonne Everett Miriam FolgerProfessor Dingiebender Harold Everts


The cast above for Alone at Lastis from the first review, but also listed in the announcements for theperformances were Mabel Weeks, Olga Britton, Ann Delmore, and Lillian Horne. The operetta ran for fiveweeks with matinées on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

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5/11/16: Robin Hood(Reginald de Koven): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour:2000: stage director W. H. Fitz-Gerald; ballet mistress Mae E. Dawson; costumes Van Horn & Son;wigs A. M. Buch & Co.

Robert of Huntingdon(Robin Hood) John W. NobleLady Marian Fitzwalter(Maid Marian) Kathryn McGinleySir Tristan Testy, sheriff of NottinghamHorace R. Hood

Sir Guy of Gisborne Hermann J. BubDame Durden Marie Loughney

Annabel Lottie E. LoebenWill Scarlet Frank M. ConlyLittle John Joseph W. CleggFriar Tuck Charles J. Shuttleworth

Alan-a-Dale Marie Stone LangstonHerald Anna Hornbach

maestro direttore Wassili Leps / Reginald de Koven (Act III)

Louise SegalAnna Larkin

5/12/16: Robin Hood: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 20005/18/16: Patience: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo y Company): stage director Joseph Craig Fox;

accompanist Mrs. Edith Mahon

Colonel Calverly Benjamin D. MosserMajor Murgatroyd William Baird Keeper, II

Lieutenant, the duke of DunstablePhilip Warren CookeReginald Bunthorne G. Plantou Middleton

Archibald Grosvenor Charles Francis WardMr. Bunthorne’s solicitor Alfred Clark Arnold

The lady Angela Mildred W. ShattuckThe lady Saphir Frances West Baily

The lady Ella Elizabeth HarrisonThe lady Jane Elsie Morris Brinton

Patience, a dairy maid Helen Buchananmaestro direttore Camille W. Zeckwer

5/19/16: Patience: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/20/16: Patience: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)6/06/16: Patience: Kennett Square, Longwood Gardens (The Savo yCompany)6/06/16: Aida: Philadelphia, Franklin Field (University of Pennsylvania), hour: 1930: 176 piece orchestra; choruses from

Metropolitan, Boston, and Chicago opera companies; assistant conductor Spirescu; stage managerLiugo Albertieri; supervisor of stage setting Arturo Spelta; lighting Professor Clewell

Il re d’Egitto Virgilio LazzariAmneris Margarete Matzenauer

Aida Marie RappoldRadamès Leone Zinovieff

Amonasro Giuseppe CampanariRamfis Léon Rothier

Un messaggero Giovanni PorrsUna sacerdotessa Juanita Prewettmaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

première danseuse Margaret Severn

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11/13/16: Andrea Chénier: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston National Grand Opera Co. with Ballet Russe)

Andrea Chénier Giovanni ZenatelloCarlo Gérard Georges Baklanoff Jose Segura-Tallien

Maddalena di Coigny Luisa VillaniLa mulatta Bersi Dorothy Follis Mabel Riegelman

La contessa di Coigny Frances PeraltaLa vecchia Madelon Maria Winietskaja

Roucher Virgilio LazzariIl romanziere, Pietro Fléville Paolo Ananian

Fouquier-Tinville Giorgio PulitiUn «Incredibile» Romeo Boscacci

L’abate Romeo BoscacciSchmidt Nero VillarDumas Sallustio Civai


11/14/16: Iris : Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston National Opera Grand Company), hour: 2000: stagedirector Armando F. Agnini

Iris Tamaki MiuraOsaka To vio KittayKyoto Thomas Chalmers

Il cieco Virgilio LazzariDhia Maggie Teyte

Una guècha Elvira LeveroniUn cenciaiuolo Romeo BoscacciUn merciaiuolo Romeo Boscacci


Demon(Anton Rubinstein) had been announced for Tuesday, November 14 with the following cast:

Prince Gudal Eugenio MariacheffTamara Tatiana Norikoff

Prince Sinodal Enrico ArensenThe old servant Paolo Ananian

The old nurse Maria WinietskajaThe angel Fely Clement

The demon Georges BaklanoffGonetz Boris Kostka

11/15/16: Hänsel und Gretel: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston National Grand Opera Company), matinée

Peter Riccardo MartinGertrud Frances Peralta

Gretel Maggie TeyteHänsel Mabel Riegelman

Die Knusperhexe Maria Winietskajamaestro direttore Alfred Schmidt

Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston National Grand Opera Company)

Santuzza Bianca Saroya (Alma Weisshaar)Lola Fely Clement

Turiddu Romeo BoscacciAlfio Vincente Ballester


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11/15/16: L’amore dei tre re: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston National Grand Opera Company)

Fiora Luisa VillaniAvito Riccardo Martin

Manfredo Georges BaklanoffArchibaldo José Mardones

Flaminio Romeo BoscacciUna vecchia Elvira Leveroni


11/15/16: La bohème(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 2000: stagemanager Earle W. Marshall; members of Philadelphia Orchestra; costumes Van Horn & Son; wigsand make-up A. M. Buch & Co.

Mimì May Ebrey HotzRodolfo Paul Volkmann

Marcello Samuel H. LipschutzSchaunard George E. Emes

Colline William O. MillerBenoît Charles J. Shuttleworth

Alcindoro unknownMusetta Elizabeth Harrison

Parpignol Harry Fairleighmaestro direttore Wassili Lepsmaestro del coro William P. Bentz

11/16/16: Faust (French): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston National Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015:stage director Armando F. Agnini

Le docteur Faust Riccardo MartinMéphistophélès José Mardones

Marguerite Maggie TeyteValentin Thomas Chalmers

Siébel Dorothy FollisDame Marthe Schwertlein Maria Winietskaja

Wa gner Giorgio Pulitimaestro direttore Fulgenzio Guerrierimaestro del coro Amedeo Barbieri

11/17/16: La bohème: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston National Grand Opera Company)

Mimì Maggie TeyteRodolfo Giuseppe Gaudenzi Riccardo Martin

Marcello Thomas ChalmersSchaunard Giorgio Puliti

Colline Virgilio LazzariBenoît Paolo Ananian

Musetta Bianca Saroya Mabel Riegelman

maestro direttore Fulgenzio Guerrieri

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11/18/16: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston National Grand Opera Company), hour:1415: stage director Armando F. Agnini

Cio-cio-san Tamaki MiuraB. F. Pinkerton Giuseppe Gaudenzi Riccardo Martin

Suzuki Rita Fornia Elvira Leveroni

Sharpless Thomas ChalmersGoro Romeo Boscacci

Il principe Yamadori Giorgio PulitiLo zio Bonzo Paolo Ananian

Il commissario imperiale Giorgio PulitiKate Pinkerton Maria Lara

maestro direttore Fulgenzio Guerrierimaestro del coro Amedeo Barbieri

11/18/16: Andrea Chénier: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Boston National Grand Opera Company)

Andrea Chénier Giovanni ZenatelloCarlo Gérard Georges Baklanoff

Maddalena di Coigny Luisa VillaniLa mulatta Bersi Mabel Riegelman

La contessa di Coigny Frances PeraltaLa vecchia Madelon Maria Gay

Roucher Giorgio PulitiIl romanziere, Pietro Fléville Paolo Ananian

Fouquier-Tinville Virgilio LazzariUn «Incredibile» Romeo Boscacci

L’abate Boris Kostkamaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

11/21/16: Knyaz’ Igor’ (Italian): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Prince Igor Pasquale AmatoPrincess Yaroslavna Frances Alda

Vladimir Paul AlthousePrince Galitzky Adamo Didur

Konchak Adamo DidurKonchakovna Flora Perini

Scula Andrés de SegurolaYerochka Angelo Badà

Ovlur Pietro AudisioYaroslavna’s nurse Minnie EgenerA Polovetzian maid Raymonde Delaunois


Rosina GalliGiuseppe Bonfiglio

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11/27/16: Cavalleria rusticana(twenty-fifth anniversary of the first performance of the opera in Philadelphia): Philadelphia,Metropolitan Opera House (Behrens Opera Club): chorus of 100 augmented by male chorus of P. E.Church of the Ascension, L. T. Ullrich; stage director Leo Wright

Santuzza Zipporah RosenbergLola Rose Rosenau

Turiddu Bernard W. PolandAlfio Russell Spruance

Lucia Bessie Leonardmaestro direttore Gustav Hinrichs

Coppelia(ballet: Leo Delibes): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Behrens Opera Club): ballet director C.Ellwood Carpenter

Swanilda Dorothy Cook MillerFr antz C. Ellwood Carpenter, Jr.

Coppelius Hugh A. Gormanmaestro direttore John Curtis, Jr.

Mary DeCan, Leslie Kelly, Margaret Hollis, James Cassidy

11/28/16: Samson et Dalila: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Dalila Louise HomerSamson Enrico Caruso

Le grand-prêtre de Dagon Giuseppe de LucaAbimélech Carl Schlegel

Un vieillard hébreu Léon RothierPremier Philistin Vincenzo Reschiglian

Un messager philistin Max Blochmaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

Rosina Galli


Heinrich der Vogler Carl BraunLohengrin Jacques Urlus

Elsa von Brabant Marie RappoldFriedrich von Telramund Otto Goritz

Ortrud Margarete OberDer Heerrufer des Königs Robert Leonhardt

Noble Carl BitterlPa g e Veni Warwick


12/06/16: La damnation de Faust(Berlioz): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Choral Society of Philadelphia): withmembers of the Philadelphia Orchestra

Faust Walter A. PontiusMéphistophélès Henri Scott

Marguerite Julia HenrichBrander [Henry Merriken]

maestro direttore Henry Gordon Thunder

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Il conte di Luna Pasquale AmatoLeonora Marie RappoldAzucena Louise HomerManrico Giovanni Martinelli

Ferrando Léon RothierInes Marie MattfeldRuiz Pietro Audisio

Un vecchio zingaro Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

12/18/16: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, William H.Rosenbach), hour: 2015

Miss Lucia Regina VicarinoSir Edgardo di Ravenswood Forrest Lamont Filado Sinagra

Lord Enrico Asthon Roberto ViglioneRaimondo Bidebent Giuseppe SorgiLord Arturo Buclaw Manrico d’Orazi

Alisa Cecilia ElianiNormanno Leopold Peres

maestro direttore Ettore Martini

12/19/16: Martha (Italian): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000:stage director Jules Speck; set design James Fox

Lord Tristan Mickleford Frieda HempelLyonel Enrico CarusoNancy Margarete Ober

Plunkett Giuseppe de LucaLord Tristan Mickleford Pompilio Malatesta

Der Richter zu Richmond Riccardo Teg ani1. Magd Lavinia Puglioli2. Magd Nazzarena Malaspina3. Magd Emma Borniggia

Diener der Lady Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Gennaro Papi

12/20/16: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il conte di Luna Manrico AinetoLeonora Esther FerrabiniAzucena Margaret JarmaManrico Forrest Lamont

Ferrando Giuseppe SorgiInes Viola RobertiRuiz Leopold Peres


12/21/16: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company), matinée12/21/16: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company), hour: 201512/22/16: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

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12/25/16: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il conte di Luna Manrico AinetoLeonora Esther FerrabiniAzucena Margaret JarmaManrico Forrest Lamont

Ferrando Giuseppe SorgiInes Viola RobertiRuiz Leopold Peres


12/26/16: Siegfried: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1930: setdesign Jan Heythekker, Hans Kautsky

Siegfried Jacques UrlusMime Albert Reiss

Der Wanderer Carl BraunAlberich Otto Goritz

Fafner Basil RuysdaelErda Louise Homer

Brünnhilde Melanie KurtStimme des WaldvogelsLenora Sparkes

maestro direttore Paul Eisler

19171/09/17: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Carmen Margarete Matzenauer Geraldine Farrar

Don José Giovanni MartinelliEscamillo Giuseppe de Luca

Micaëla Edith MasonFr asquita Mabel GarrisonMercédès Sophie Braslau

Zuniga Léon RothierMoralès Mario Laurenti

Le Dancaïre Robert LeonhardtLe Remendado Angelo Badà


Rosina Galli



Marcello Pasquale AmatoSchaunard Riccardo Teg ani


Pompilio MalatestaBenoît

AlcindoroMusetta Edith Mason


maestro direttore Gennaro Papi

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Il re d’Egitto Basil RuysdaelAmneris Margarete Ober

Aida Johanna GadskiRadamès Giovanni Martinelli

Ramfis Adamo DidurAmonasro Riccardo Teg ani

Un messaggero Pietro AudisioUna sacerdotessa Minnie Egenermaestro direttore Gennaro Papi

Rosina Galli

2/20/17: Fr ancesca da Rimini: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Fr ancesca Frances AldaPaolo il Bello Giovanni Martinelli

Giovanni lo Sciancato (Gianciotto) Pasquale AmatoMalatestino dall’Occhio Angelo Badà

Samaritana Edith MasonSmaragdi Flora PeriniGarsenda Lenora Sparkes

Biancofiore Mabel GarrisonAltichiara Sophie BraslauSimonetto Pompilio MalatestaAdonella Raymonde DelaunoisOstasio Riccardo Teg ani

Ser Toldo Berardengo Pietro AudisioIl balestriere Max Bloch

Maid of Honor Queenie SmithBerlingerio Vincenzo Reschiglian


2/22/17: The marriage of Jeannette(Victor Massé:Les noces de Jeanette): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House(Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 1415

Jeannette Mildred WarnerJean Oswald F. Blake

Thomas unknownPetit Pierre unknown


The dance of butterflies(ballet, music: Nell Gwyn dances by German): ballet mistress Mae DawsonHänsel und Gretel(English): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic Society)

Peter William J. MayerGertrud Vandalia HisseyHänsel Alice HarrisonGretel Helen Salmons

Die Knusperhexe unknownSandmännchen unknownTaumännchen Sara Murphy

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3/06/17: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Il duca di Mantova Enrico CarusoRigoletto Giuseppe de Luca

Gilda Maria BarrientosSparafucile Giuseppe de LucaMaddalena Flora Perini


Il cavaliere Marullo Bernard BéguéMatteo Borsa Angelo Badà

Il conte di Ceprano Vincenzo ReschiglianLa contessa di Ceprano Minnie Egener

Pa g gio della duchessaEmma Borniggiamaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

3/20/17: The Canterbury pilgrims(Reginald de Koven): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan OperaCompany, New York), hour: 2000

Prioress Edith MasonChaucer Johannes SembachAlisoun Margarete OberSquire Paul Althouse

Johanna Marie SundeliusMiller Basil RuysdaelFriar Max Bloch

Knight Robert LeonhardtHost Giulio Rossi

Joannes Pietro AudisioPardoner Julius BayerShipman Mario Laurenti

Summoner Carl SchlegelMan of Law Robert Leonhardt

Cook Pompilio MalatestaGirl Marie TiffanyGirl Minnie Egener

Richard Albert ReissHerald Riccardo Teg ani


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3/27/17: Die Walküre: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1930

Siegmund Jacques UrlusHunding Basil Ruysdael

Wotan Clarence WhitehillSieglinde Johanna Gadski

Brünnhilde Margarete MatzenauerFricka Lila Robeson

Gerhilde Marie SundeliusOrtlinde Vera Curtis

Waltraute Lila RobesonSchwertleite Kathleen Howard

Helmwige Lenora SparkesSiegrune Marie Mattfeld

Grimgerde Florence MulfordRoßweiße Flora Perini



Floria Tosca Geraldine FarrarMario Cavaradossi Luca Botta

Il barone Scarpia Antonio ScottiAngelotti Giulio Rossi


Sciarrone Bernard BéguéUn pastore Angelo Badà

Un carceriere Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

4/10/17: L’oracolo (Franco Leoni): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., NY), hour: 2000

Uin-Scî Adamo DidurCim-Fen Antonio ScottiHu-Tsin Giulio RossiAh-Joe Edith Mason

L’indovino Pietro AudisioUin-San-Lui Luca Botta

Hua-Qui Sophie BraslauHu-Cî Ella Bakos

role unknown Max Blochmaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco


Canio Enrico CarusoNedda Claudia MuzioTonio Pasquale AmatoBeppe Pietro AudisioSilvio Riccardo Teg ani


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Boris Godunov Adamo DidurFeodor Raymonde DelaunoisXenia Lenora Sparkes

Xenia’s nurse Kathleen HowardPrince Vassili Ivanovich ShuiskyAngelo Badà


Grigory Otrepiev / Dimitri Paul AlthouseMarina Mnishek Margarete Ober


Hostess of the inn Marie MattfeldThe simpleton Max Bloch

Nikitch Giulio RossiChernikovsky Carl Schlegelrole unknown Bernard Bégué


5/10/17: Brian Boru (Julian Edwards): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour2000: stage director W. H. Fitzgerald; members of Philadelphia Orchestra; scenery fromMetropolitan Opera, New York, Edward Siedle

Trina Elsa Lyons CookO’Donovan Franklin L. Wood


5/17/17: The gondoliers: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo y Company): stage director Joseph Craig Fox;accompanist Mrs. Edith Mahon

The duke of Plaza-Toro Charles Francis WardLuiz Oswald F. Blake

Don Alhambra del Bolero Clarence C. BrintonMarco Palmieri William R. Keech

Giuseppe Palmieri Leslie Wells JoyAntonio John S. Bradway

Fr ancesco Donald W. JenksGiorgio Paul J. McKeone

The duchess of Plaza-ToroElsie Morris BrintonCasilda Elizabeth Harrison

Gianetta Dorothy W. DinsmoreTessa Mary Besson

Fiametta Susan D. FunstonVittoria Marie L. StarrGiulia Florence Shoemaker

Inez Marian P. Toulminmaestro direttore Camille W. Zeckwer

5/18/17: The gondoliers: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/19/17: The gondoliers: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

10/20/17: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Catholic Operatic Society): stage director James J. Skelly

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Il re d’Egitto Basil RuysdaelAmneris Margarete Matzenauer

Aida Claudia MuzioRadamès Giovanni Martinelli

Ramfis José MardonesAmonasro Pasquale Amato

Un messaggero Pietro AudisioUna sacerdotessa Marie Sundeliusmaestro direttore Gennaro Papi

Rosina Galli

11/27/17: Manon Lescaut: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000:stage director Richard Ordynski; set design Mario Sala; costume design Adolfo Hohenstein

Manon Lescaut Frances AldaLescaut Pasquale Amato

Il cavaliere Renato des GrieuxEnrico CarusoGeronte di Ravoir Andrés de Segurola

Edmondo Angelo BadàL’oste Mario Laurenti

Un musico Flora PeriniUn sergente Vincenzo Reschiglian

Un lampionaio Pietro AudisioIl maestro di ballo Albert Reiss

Un comandante di marina Louis d’Angelomaestro direttore Gennaro Papi

11/28/17: Aida: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour 2000: stage manager Earle W.Marshall; director of ballet Frances Fitch

Il re d’Egitto unknownAmneris Winnifred Gross

Aida Lilian M. GinrichRadamès George Rothermel

Ramfis unknownAmonasro Horace R. Hood


Louise Segall

12/04/17: Faust: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1945

Le docteur Faust Giovanni MartinelliMéphistophélès Clarence Whitehill

Marguerite Geraldine FarrarValentin Mario Laurenti

Siébel Raymonde DelaunoisDame Marthe Schwertlein Kathleen Howard

Wa gner Louis d’Angelomaestro direttore Pierre Monteux


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12/11/17: La fille du régiment(Italian): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, NY): stagedirector Richard Ordynski; set design James Fox

Marie Frieda HempelTonio Fernando Carpi

La marquise de BerkenfieldMarie MattfeldHortentius Vincenzo Reschiglian

Sulpice Antonio ScottiLe caporal Louis d’Angelo

La duchesse de CrakentorpMaria SavageUn paysan Pietro AudisioUn notaire Edward Alexander


Lesson scene:Heinrich Proch Deh ! torna mio bene, op. 164


Santuzza Florence EastonLola Flora Perini

Turiddu Paul AlthouseAlfio Thomas Chalmers

Lucia Marie Mattfeldmaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

12/18/17: Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Canio Enrico CarusoNedda Claudia MuzioTonio Pasquale AmatoBeppe Pietro AudisioSilvio Mario Laurenti


19181/08/18: Die Legende von der Heiligen Elisabeth(Franz Liszt), English: Philadelphia, , Metropolitan Opera House

(Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Elisabeth Florence EastonLudwig Clarence WhitehillSophie Margarete Matzenauer

Hermann Carl SchlegelHungarian Magnate Basil Ruysdael

Steward Robert LeonhardtChild Elisabeth Constanze Bitterl

Child Ludwig Margarete Bellerimaestro direttore Artur Bodanzky

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2/05/18: La traviata: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Violetta Valéry Frieda HempelAlfredo Germont Fernando CarpiGiorgio Germont Giuseppe de Luca

Flora Bervoix Minnie EgenerIl barone Douphol Vincenzo Reschiglian

Il dottor Grenvil Giulio RossiAnnina Marie Mattfeld

Gastone di Letorières Angelo BadàIl marchese d’Obigny Mario Laurenti


Giuseppe de Luca

2/19/18: Lodoletta(Pietro Mascagni): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., NY), hour: 2000

Lodoletta Florence EastonLa pazza Lila Robeson

Maud Minnie EgenerLa Vanard Cecil ArdenFlammen Enrico Caruso

Giannotto Pasquale AmatoFr anz Pompilio Malatesta

Antonio Adamo DidurUna voce Max Bloch

Il portalettere Sante MandelliViolinist Ludwig Burgstaller


2/21/18: Robin Hood(Reginald de Koven): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour:2000: stage manager W. H. Fitzgerald; members of the Philadelphia Orchestra; ballet mistressFrances Fitch; costumes Van Horn & Son; wigs A. M. Buch & Co.

Robert of Huntingdon(Robin Hood) John W. NobleLady Marian Fitzwalter(Maid Marian) Kathryn McGinleySir Tristan Testy, sheriff of NottinghamHorace R. Hood

Sir Guy of Gisborne Hermann J. BubDame Durden Eva Allen Ritter

Annabel Lottie E. LoebenWill Scarlet Frank M. ConlyLittle John J. J. EricFriar Tuck Charles J. Shuttleworth

Alan-a-Dale Marie Stone Langstonmaestro direttore Wassili Leps

2/25/18: Robin Hood: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 2000: 2/21/18

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Cio-Cio-San Geraldine FarrarB. F. Pinkerton Paul Althouse

Suzuki Rita ForniaSharpless Thomas Chalmers

Goro Albert ReissIl principe Yamadori Pietro Audisio

Lo zio Yakusidé Francesco CerriLo zio Bonzo Basil Ruysdael

Il commissario imperiale Louis d’AngeloKate Pinkerton Minnie Egener


3/12/18: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Il duca di Mantova Hipolito LazaroRigoletto Giuseppe de Luca

Gilda Maria BarrientosSparafucile José MardonesMaddalena Sophie Braslau


Il cavaliere Marullo Mario LaurentiMatteo Borsa Angelo Badà


Pa g gio della duchessaEmma Borniggiamaestro direttore Gennaro Papi

3/19/18: L’amore dei tre re: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2015

Fiora Claudia MuzioAvito Enrico Caruso

Manfredo Pasquale AmatoArchibaldo José Mardones

Flaminio Angelo BadàUn’ancella Helene Kanders

Una giovanetta Marie TiffanyUn giovanetto Pietro Audisio

Una vecchia Lila RobesonUn pastore Cecil Arden


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3/26/18: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Carmen Geraldine FarrarDon José Giovanni MartinelliEscamillo Clarence Whitehill

Micaëla Marie SundeliusFr asquita Lenora SparkesMercédès Flora Perini

Zuniga Léon RothierMoralès Mario Laurenti

Le Dancaïre Albert ReissLe Remendado Angelo Badà

maestro direttore Pierre Monteux

Queenie Smith


Mimì Frances AldaRodolfo Giovanni Martinelli

Marcello Thomas ChalmersSchaunard Louis d’Angelo

Colline Henri ScottBenoît Pompilio Malatesta

Alcindoro Robert LeonhardtMusetta Ruth Miller




Dalila Margarete MatzenauerSamson Enrico Caruso

Le grand-prêtre de Dagon Clarence WhitehillAbimélech Carl Schlegel

Un vieillard hébreu Léon RothierPremier Philistin Pietro Audisio

Deuxième Philistin Vincenzo ReschiglianUn messager philistin Max Bloch


Queenie Smith


Il conte di Luna Giuseppe de LucaLeonora Claudia MuzioAzucena Margarete MatzenauerManrico Giovanni Martinelli

Ferrando Léon RothierInes Marie MattfeldRuiz Pietro Audisio

Un vecchio zingaro Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Gennaro Papi

295

4/16/18: L’oracolo: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Uin-Scî Adamo DidurCim-Fen Antonio ScottiHu-Tsin Giulio RossiAh-Joe Florence Easton

L’indovino Pietro AudisioUin-San-Lui Paul Althouse

Hua-Qui Marie MattfeldHu-Cî Ella Bakos

role unknown Max Blochmaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

Zolotoy Pyetushok(Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov,Le Coq d’Or), French: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House(Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Cockerel Marie Sundelius

Queen of Shemakha Maria Barrientos

Rosina Galli (dancer)

King Dodon Adamo Didur

Adolph Bolm (dancer)

Amelfa Lila Robeson

Queenie Smith (dancer)

The astrologer Rafaelo Díaz

Giuseppe Bonfiglio (dancer)

Voevoda Polkan Basil Ruysdael

Ottokar Bartik (dancer)

Prince Gvidon Pietro Audisio

Marshall Hall (dancer)

Knight Vincenzo Reschiglian

Vincenzo Ioucelli (dancer)maestro direttore Pierre Monteux

4/17/18: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Little Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage director Joseph Craig Fox

The learned judge G. Plantou MiddletonThe defendant (Edwin) Philip Warren Cooke

Counsel for the plaintiff John B. KeeperUsher Howard B. Stavers

Foreman of the jury John Edward FreemanThe plaintiff (Angelina) Jennie Kneedler Johnson

maestro direttore William Stanley Muschamp

Trial by Jury was part of a triple bill -- the two plays that followed it wereRush Lightby O’Shea, andThebarber of Barton.

4/18/18: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Little Theatre (The Savo yCompany)4/19/18: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Little Theatre (The Savo yCompany)4/20/18: Trial by Jury: Philadelphia, Union League Annex (The Savo yCompany)

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5/02/18: Il segreto di Susanna(English): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic So.), hour: 2000

La contessa SusannaEmily Stokes HagarIl conte Gil William O. Miller

Sante unknownmaestro direttore Wassili Leps

The rose of destiny(Céleste de Longpré Heckscher), World première: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House(Philadelphia Operatic Society): scenery from Metropolitan Opera, New York

Father Time William J. MayerFate Marie Stone Langston

The woman Mrs. Logan FelandThe man George Rothermel

The mother Vandelia HisseyMisfortune Marie Stone Langston


˜ 6/17/18: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Grand Opera Festival, Harry Davis, Pittsburgh), hour: 2015

Il conte di Luna Carl FormesLeonora Florence EastonAzucena Alice GentleManrico Enrico Arensen

Ferrando Henri ScottInes Viola RobertsonRuiz Octave Dua

maestro direttore Josiah Zuro

˜ 6/18/18: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Cio-Cio-San Maggie TeyteB. F. Pinkerton Riccardo Martin

Suzuki Viola RobertsonSharpless Auguste Bouilliez

Goro Octave Dua[Il principe Yamadori] Arduino

[Lo zio Bonzo] Désiré DefrèreKate Pinkerton Anna Corenti

maestro direttore Romulado Sapio

˜ 6/19/18: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 1415Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company)

Announcements listed performers for the two operas as::Florence EastonViola RobertsonAnna Corenti

Francis MaclennanDora de PhillippeForrest Lamont

Carl FormesDésiré Defrère

Octave Dua

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˜ 6/19/18: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Hoffmann Orville HarroldOlympia Ruth MillerAntonia Maggie Teyte

Giulietta Elizabeth CampbellAuguste BouilliezHenri ScottDésiré DefrèreOctave DuaDelmoMeyers


˜ 6/20/18: Carmen: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Carmen Alice GentleDon José Riccardo MartinEscamillo Auguste Bouilliez

Micaëla Dora de PhillippeFr asquita Viola RobertsonMercédès AndrewsMoralès Désiré Defrère

[Le Remendado] Octave Duamaestro direttore Josiah Zuro

6/21/18: Martha (English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Lady Harriet Durham Maggie TeyteNancy Elizabeth CampbellLyonel Orville Harrold

Plumkett Henri ScottCarl FormesMeyers


6/22/18: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 1415

Cio-Cio-San Maggie TeyteB. F. Pinkerton Riccardo Martin





6/22/18: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il conte di Luna Carl FormesLeonora Florence EastonAzucena Alice GentleManrico Enrico Arensen

Ferrando Henri ScottInes Viola RobertsonRuiz Octave Dua


298

6/24/18: Aida: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il re d’Egitto Henry WeldonAmneris Alice Gentle

Aida Florence EastonRadamès Riccardo Martin

Ramfis Henri ScottAmonasro Auguste Bouilliez

Un messaggero Octave DuaUna sacerdotessa Viola Robertsonmaestro direttore Josiah Zuro

6/25/18: La bohème: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Mimì Maggie TeyteRodolfo Forrest Lamont

Marcello Auguste BouilliezColline Henri Scott

Mario AnatolaCarl FormesNatale Cervi

Musetta Dora de Phillippemaestro direttore Romulado Sapio

6/26/18: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 1415

Il duca di Mantova Forrest LamontGilda Ruth Miller

Viola RobertsonCingolentiCanovaAnna CorentiMario AnatolaHenry WeldonMeyers


6/26/18: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Cio-Cio-San Florence EastonB. F. Pinkerton Francis Maclennan





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˜ 6/27/18: Faust: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Le docteur Faust Forrest LamontMéphistophélès Henri Scott

Marguerite Maggie TeyteValentin Meyers Désiré Defrère

Siébel Elizabeth Campbell[Dame Marthe Schwertlein] Delmo

[Wagner] Auguste Bouilliezmaestro direttore Romulado Sapio

6/28/18: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Santuzza Alice GentleTuriddu Francis Maclennan


Pa gliacci: Philadelphia (Festival Opera Company, Pittsburgh)

Nedda Ruth MillerCanio Riccardo Martin


An announcement listed performers for the two operas as::Alice Gentle

Viola RobertsonDelmo

Francis MaclennanCarl FormesRuth Miller

Riccardo MartinDésiré DefrèreMario Anatola

Octave Dua

˜ 6/29/18: La bohème: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 1415

Mimì Maggie TeyteRodolfo Forrest LamontMusetta Ruth Miller

Henri ScottMario AnatolaCarl FormesNatale Cervi


˜ 6/29/18: Aida: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Harry Davis Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il re d’Egitto Henry WeldonAmneris Alice Gentle

Aida Florence EastonRadamès Riccardo Martin

Ramfis Henri ScottAmonasro Turner

Un messaggero Octave DuaUna sacerdotessa Viola Robertsonmaestro direttore Josiah Zuro

300

11/19/18: Mârouf (Henri Rabaud): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York),hour: 2000: stage director Richard Ordynski; set design Ernest M. Gros; costume design LivingstonPlatt; with some costumes from 1912-13Die Zauberflöteby Georg Heil

Mârouf Giuseppe de LucaLa principessa SaamcheddineFrances Alda

Fattoumah Kathleen HowardIl sultano di Khïatân Léon Rothier

Il suo visir Giuseppe de LucaAli Mario Laurenti

Un fellah Angelo BadàIl capo dei marinai Albert Reiss

Il pasticciere Ahmed Paolo Ananian

Due muezzin Giordano Paltrinieri

Angelo BadàIl cadi Giulio Rossi

Due commercianti Angelo Badà

Pompilio MalatestaMuleteer Pietro Audisio



11/26/18: L’elisir d’amore: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Nemorino Enrico CarusoAdina Frieda Hempel

Il dottor Dulcamara Adamo DidurBelcore Giuseppe de Luca

Giannetta Lenora Sparkesmaestro direttore Gennaro Papi


Floria Tosca Claudia MuzioMario Cavaradossi Giulio Crimi


Il sagrestano Pompilio MalatestaSpoletta Giordano Paltrinieri

Sciarrone Vincenzo ReschiglianUn pastore Cecil Arden

Un carceriere Mario Laurentimaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

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Santuzza Rosa PonselleLola Sophie Braslau

Turiddu Paul AlthouseAlfio Mario Laurenti

Lucia Marie Mattfeldmaestro direttore Gennaro Papi


Canio Enrico CarusoNedda Florence EastonTonio Luigi MontesantoBeppe Albert ReissSilvio Mario Laurenti


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12/17/18: Il tabarro: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1945

Michele Luigi MontesantoLuigi Giulio Crimi

Il Tinca Angelo BadàIl Talpa Adamo Didur

Giorgetta Claudia MuzioLa Frugola Alice Gentle

Un venditore di canzonette Pietro Audisio

Due amanti Marie Tiffany

unknownmaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

Suor Angelica: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Suor Angelica Geraldine FarrarLa zia principessa Flora Perini

La badessa Rita ForniaLa suora zelatrice Marie Sundelius

La maestra delle novizie Cecil ArdenSuor Genovieffa Mary Ellis

Suor Osmina Margarete BelleriSuor Dolcina Marie Mattfeld

La prima suora cercatrice Kitty BealeLa seconda suora cercatriceMinnie Egener

La novizia Phyllis WhiteLa prima conversa Marie Tiffany

La seconda conversaVeni Warwickmaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

Gianni Schicchi: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Gianni Schicchi Giuseppe de LucaLauretta Florence Easton

Zita Kathleen HowardRinuccio Giulio Crimi

Gherardo Angelo BadàNella Marie Tiffany

Gherardino Mario MalatestaBetto di Signa Paolo Ananian

Simone Adamo DidurMarco Louis d’Angelo

La Ciesca Marie SundeliusIl Maestro Spinelloccio Mario MalatestaSer Amantio di Nicolao Giuseppe de Luca

Pinellino Vincenzo ReschiglianGuccio Carl Schlegel


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Aida Claudia MuzioRadamès Giulio Crimi

Ramfis Henri ScottAmonasro Giuseppe de Luca

Un messaggero Pietro AudisioUna sacerdotessa Lenora Sparkesmaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

Queenie Smith

1/16/19: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 2000:orchestra members of the Philadelphia Orchestra; stage director W. H. Fitzgerald; ballet mistressFrances Fitch; costumes Van Horn & Son; wigs and make-up A. M. Buch & Co.

Count Arnheim Horace R. HoodFlorestein Hermann J. BubThaddeus Paul Volkmann

Devilshoof Charles J. ShuttleworthArline Kathryn McGinley Noble

The gypsy queen Kathryn C. MartinThe child Arline Adelaide van Hasselt

Buda Eva Allen Rittermaestro direttore Wassili Leps


Dalila Margarete MatzenauerSamson Enrico Caruso

Le grand-prêtre de Dagon Robert CouzinouAbimélech Paolo Ananian

Un vieillard hébreu José MardonesPremier Philistin Pietro Audisio

Deuxième Philistin Vincenzo ReschiglianUn messager philistin Albert Reiss

maestro direttore Giulio Setti Pierre Monteux

Queenie Smith


Il conte d’Almaviva Charles HackettIl dottore Bartolo Pompilio Malatesta

Rosina Frieda HempelFigaro Giuseppe de Luca

Don Basilio José MardonesFiorello Vincenzo Reschiglian

Berta Marie MattfeldUn ufficiale Pietro Audisio


Lesson scene:Heinrich Proch Deh ! torna mio bene, op. 164

Johann Strauß, Jr. An der schönen blauen Donau

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Cio-Cio-San Geraldine FarrarB. F. Pinkerton Hipolito Lazaro

Suzuki Rita ForniaSharpless Luigi Montesanto

Goro Angelo BadàIl principe Yamadori Louis d’Angelo

Lo zio Yakusidé Francesco CerriLo zio Bonzo Carl Schlegel



3/03/19: Cléopâtre(Jules Massenet): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Chicago Opera Association), hour: 2000: stagedirector Emile Merle-Forest; ballet master Francois Ambrosiny; choreography Messrs. Pavley andOukrainsky

Marc Antoine Alfred MaguenatSpakos Charles FontaineEnnius Gustave Huberdeau

Amnhes Constantin NicolaySeverus Désiré Defrère

L’esclave de la porte John LeemansCléopâtre Mary Garden

Octavie Francesca PeraltaCharmion Emma Noé

Adamos Andreas Pavleymaestro direttore Marcel Charlier

Andreas Pavley, Serge OukrainskyMlle. Karalli, corps de ballet

3/03/19: Giocondawas announced for this date with Rosa Raisa, Lazzari/Cieca, Arimondi/Alvise, Cyrena vanGordon/Laura, Alessandro Dolci/Enzo, Rimini/Barnaba, Nicolay/Zuane.


Il conte di Luna Giuseppe de LucaLeonora Claudia MuzioAzucena Margarete MatzenauerManrico Giulio Crimi

Ferrando Léon RothierInes Minnie EgenerRuiz Pietro Audisio


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3/04/19: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Chicago Opera Association), hour: 2000: stage directorjoseph Engel; ballet master Francois Ambrosiny

Miss Lucia Amelita Galli-CurciSir Edgardo di RavenswoodAlessandro Dolci

Lord Enrico Asthon Giacomo RiminiRaimondo Bidebent Virgilio LazzariLord Arturo Buclaw Octave Dua

Alisa Alma PetersonNormanno Giuseppe Minerva


3/05/19: Gismonda(Henri Février): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Chicago Opera Association), hour: 2000: stagedirector Joseph Engel; ballet master Francois Ambrosiny; scenery painted by Peter J. Donigan;choreography Messrs. Pavley and Oukrainsky

Gismonda Mary GardenAlmerio Charles Fontaine

Zaccaria Alfred MaguenatSophron Constantin Nicolay

Gregoras Gustave HuberdeauThisbe Louise Bérat

Agnello Octave DuaSimonetti Lodovico Oliviero

Tiberio Octave DuaAndrioli Désiré Defrère

Pasquale Constantin NicolayCypriella Marie PruzanLeonarda Emma Noé

Donata Alma Petersonmaestro direttore Cleofonte Campanini

Andreas Pavley, Serge OukrainskyMlles. Ludmila, Keralli, Kow ak, Kharkova, Pfeil, Sachetti

Corps de ballet

3/06/19: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Chicago Opera Association), hour: 1400: stage directorJoseph Engel

Il conte d’Almaviva Fernando CarpiRosina Amelita Galli-CurciFigaro Riccardo Stracciari

Don Basilio Virgilio LazzariIl dottore Bartolo Vittorio Trevisan

Berta Maria ClaessensFiorello Lodovico Oliviero

Un ufficiale Désiré DefrèreAmbrogio Eugenio Correnti


Lesson scene:Dinorah Ombra leggiera

Clari Home, sweet home

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3/06/19: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Chicago Opera Association), hour: 2000: stage directorJoseph Engel

Cio-cio-san Tamaki MiuraB. F. Pinkerton Forrest Lamont

Suzuki Irene PavloskaSharpless Giacomo Rimini Auguste Bouilliez

Goro Lodovico OlivieroIl principe Yamadori Vittorio Trevisan

Lo zio Bonzo Désiré DefrèreIl commissario imperiale Constantin Nicolay

Kate Pinkerton Alma Petersonmaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

3/06/19:Toscawas announced for this date with Rosa Raisa, Alessandro Dolci, Giacomo Rimini, ConstantinNicolay/Angelotti.

3/07/19: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Chicago Opera Association), hour: 2000: stage director Joseph Engel

Thaïs Mary GardenAthanaël Georges Baklanoff

Nicias John O’SullivanPalémon Gustave HuberdeauCrobyle Alma PetersonMyrtale Irene PavloskaAlbine Louise Bérat


3/08/19: Roméo et Juliette: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Chicago Opera Association), hour: 1400: stage directorJoseph Engel; ballet master Francois Ambrosiny

Roméo John O’SullivanJuliette Yvonne Gall

Frère Laurent Gustave HuberdeauStéphano Irene PavloskaMercutio Alfred Maguenat

Le comte Capulet Auguste BouilliezGertrude Louise Bérat

Tybalt Octave DuaGrégorio Désiré Defrère

Le duc de Vérone Constantin Nicolaymaestro direttore Marcel Charlier


Mimì Claudia MuzioRodolfo Enrico Caruso

Marcello Luigi MontesantoSchaunard Louis d’Angelo



AlcindoroMusetta Lenora Sparkes



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3/18/19: La reine Fiammette(Xavier Leroux): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company,New York), hour: 2000

Orlanda Geraldine FarrarDanilo Hipolito Lazaro

Giorgio d’Ast Adamo DidurCésar Léon Rothier

Luc Agnolo Mario LaurentiPantasilée Flora Perini

Viola Mary EllisViolette Lenora SparkesVio-line Kitty Beale

Youth Mary MellishYouth Cecil Arden

Pomone Marie TiffanyMichela Lenora SparkesCesano Giordano PaltrinieriVasari Pietro AudisioCortez Albert Reiss

Castiglione Angelo BadàMother Agramente Kathleen Howard

Angioletta Mary EllisChiarina Marie Mattfeld

Prosecutor Paolo AnanianNovice Veni WarwickNovice Phyllis White


3/25/19: La forza del destino: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Il marchese di Calatrava Louis d’AngeloLeonora di Vargas Rosa Ponselle

Don Carlo di Vargas Giuseppe de LucaDon Alvaro Enrico CarusoPreziosilla Raymonde Delaunois

Padre Guardiano José MardonesFr a Melitone Thomas Chalmers

Curra Marie MattfeldUn alcade Paolo Ananian

Mastro Trabuco Giordano PaltrinieriUn chirurgo Vincenzo Reschiglian


not performed

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Fiora Claudia MuzioAvito Giovanni Martinelli

Manfredo Thomas ChalmersArchibaldo Adamo Didur

Flaminio Angelo BadàUn’ancella Minnie Egener


Una vecchia Marie MattfeldUn pastore Marie Tiffany


4/08/19: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Il duca di Mantova Hipolito LazaroRigoletto Giuseppe de Luca

Gilda Maria BarrientosSparafucile Giuseppe de LucaMaddalena Sophie Braslau




Pa g gio della duchessaLavinia Pugliolimaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

4/15/19: Faust: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1945

Le docteur Faust Giovanni MartinelliMéphistophélès Léon Rothier

Marguerite Florence EastonValentin Thomas Chalmers

Siébel Mary Ellis Raymonde Delaunois

Dame Marthe Schwertlein Kathleen HowardWagner Louis d’Angelo Paolo Ananian



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5/05/19: The serenade(Victor Herbert): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic Society):orchestra members of the Philadelphia Orchestra; stage director W. H. Fitz-Gerlad; ballet mistressFrances Fitch; assistant conductor Floyd D. Brown; scenery Metropolitan Opera Company, NewYork; technical director Edward Seidle

The duke Horace R. HoodAlvarado Carl Weyman

Romero J. Helffenstein MasonLopez Paul Volkmann

Gomez Charles J. ShuttleworthColombo Edward P. White

Mother Superior Eva Allen RitterYvonne Emily Stokes HagarDolores Marie Stone Langston

Fr a Anselmo LeRoy P. HarryThe ancestor E. J. Brown


5/06/19: The serenade: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic Society)5/17/19: L’oracolo (Franco Leoni): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Scotti Grand Opera Company / Antonio

Scotti), hour: 2015: stage manager Armando Agnini; assistant conductor William Pelletier; orchestramanager Leopoldo Bucci; master carpenter George Henry; master of properties Philip Crispano;chief electrician Jacob Buchter; wigs William Funzel; wardrobe Max Friedel, Fanny Greenberg;scenery construction supervision Edward Siedle; scenery painted by James Fox; properties made bySiedle Studios, New York

Uin-Sci Charles GallagherCim-Fen Antonio ScottiHu-Tsin Louis d’Angelo

L’indovino Giordano PaltrinieriAh-Joe Francesca Peralta Florence Easton

Uin-San-Lui Francis MaclennanHua-Qui Mary Kent

maestro direttore Carlo Peroni

Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Scotti Grand Opera Company)

Santuzza Florence Easton Francesca Peralta

Lola Jeanne CordonTuriddu Francis Maclennan

Alfio Millo PiccoLucia Mary Kent


11/25/19: Aida: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Il re d’Egitto Paolo AnanianAmneris Gabriella Besanzoni

Aida Emmy DestinnRadamès Giovanni Martinelli

Ramfis Giovanni MartinoAmonasro Robert Couzinou

Un messaggero Pietro AudisioUna sacerdotessa Adeline Vosarimaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

Florence Rudolph

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12/02/19: L’elisir d’amore: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): stagedirector Richard Ordynski; set design James Fox

Nemorino Enrico CarusoAdina Mabel Garrison

Il dottor Dulcamara Pompilio MalatestaBelcore Giuseppe de Luca

Giannetta Mary Ellismaestro direttore Gennaro Papi


Floria Tosca Geraldine FarrarMario Cavaradossi Charles Hackett

Il barone Scarpia Antonio ScottiCesare Angelotti Louis d’Angelo


Sciarrone Louis d’AngeloUn pastore Cecil Arden

Un carceriere Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni


Mimì Frances AldaRodolfo Orville Harrold

Marcello Antonio ScottiSchaunard Millo Picco

Colline Giovanni Martino


AlcindoroMusetta Margaret Romaine



19201/06/20: La juive: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

La princesse Eudoxie Evelyn ScotneyRachel Rosa Ponselle

Le Juif Éléazar Enrico CarusoLe Cardinal de Brogni José Mardones

Léopold Orville HarroldRuggiero Thomas Chalmers

Albert Louis d’AngeloHéraut d’Armes de l’Empereur Paolo Ananian

Majordome Paolo Ananianmaestro direttore Artur Bodanzky


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1/20/20: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): stage directorRichard Ordynski

Il duca di Mantova Charles HackettRigoletto Giuseppe de Luca

Gilda Mabel GarrisonSparafucile Giovanni MartinoMaddalena Flora Perini

Giovanna Louise BératIl conte di Monterone Louis d’Angelo



Pa g gio della duchessaEmma Borniggiamaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

1/27/20: Martha (English): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic Society): stage manager Wm.H. Fitz-Gerald; assistant conductor Floyd D. Brown; ballet mistress Frances Fitch; costumes VanHorn & Son.; wigs and make-up A. M. Buch & Co.

Lady Harriet Durham Charlotte T. LoebenNancy Kathryn E. Noll

Lord Tristan Mickleford Reinhold SchmidtLyonel Paul Volkmann

Plumkett Joseph W. CleggDer Richter zu Richmond B. Russell Dolan


solo dance Alice Cordé

2/03/20: L’oracolo: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Uin-Scî Adamo DidurCim-Fen Antonio ScottiHu-Tsin Louis d’AngeloAh-Joe Florence Easton

L’indovino Pietro AudisioUin-San-Lui Rafaelo Díaz

Hua-Qui Jeanne GordonHu-Cî Ada Quintina


Cleopatra’s night(Henry Hadley): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, NY)

Cleopatra Frances AldaMeiamoun Morgan Kingston

Iras Marie TiffanyMardion Jeanne Gordon

The eunuch Millo PiccoRoman officer Louis d’AngeloMark Antony Vincenzo Reschiglian


Rosina GalliFlorence Rudolph

Giuseppe Bonfiglio

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2/17/20: Zazà(Leoncavallo): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Zazà Geraldine FarrarAnaide Kathleen Howard

Milio Dufresne Giulio CrimiCascart Pasquale Amato

Floriana Frances IngramNatalia Minnie Egener

La signora Dufresne Marie TiffanyBussy Millo Picco

Malardot Angelo BadàLartigon Paolo Ananian

Duclou Pompilio MalatestaMichelin Mario Laurenti

Marco Giordano PaltrinieriCourtois Vincenzo Reschiglian

Totò Ada QuintinaClaretta Phyllis WhiteSimona Veni WarwickAugusto Pietro Audisio


3/02/20: Martha (Italian): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Lord Tristan Mickleford Maria BarrientosLyonel Enrico CarusoNancy Flora Perini

Plunkett Adamo DidurLord Tristan Mickleford Pompilio Malatesta

Der Richter zu Richmond Mario Laurenti1. Magd Lavinia Puglioli2. Magd Nazzarena Malaspina3. Magd Louise Tozier

Diener der Lady Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Artur Bodanzky


Cio-Cio-San Florence Easton Geraldine Farrar

B. F. Pinkerton Charles HackettSuzuki Rita Fornia

Sharpless Thomas ChalmersGoro Giordano Paltrinieri

Il principe Yamadori Pietro AudisioLo zio Yakusidé Francesco Cerri

Lo zio Bonzo Louis d’AngeloIl commissario imperiale Vincenzo Reschiglian

Kate Pinkerton Edna Kelloggmaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

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Il conte di Luna Renato ZanelliLeonora Claudia MuzioAzucena Margarete MatzenauerManrico Giulio Crimi

Ferrando Giovanni MartinoInes Minnie EgenerRuiz Pietro Audisio



Il conte d’Almaviva Charles HackettIl dottore Bartolo Pompilio Malatesta

Rosina Maria BarrientosFigaro Pasquale Amato

Don Basilio José MardonesFiorello Vincenzo Reschiglian

Berta Louise BératUn ufficiale Pietro Audisio


Lesson scene:Johann Strauß, Jr. Voce di primaveraLe perle du Brazil Charmant l’oisseau

3/30/20: La forza del destino: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Il marchese di Calatrava Louis d’AngeloLeonora di Vargas Rosa Ponselle

Don Carlo di Vargas Pasquale AmatoDon Alvaro Enrico CarusoPreziosilla Jeanne Gordon

Padre Guardiano José MardonesFr a Melitone Thomas Chalmers

Curra Minnie EgenerUn alcade Paolo Ananian

Mastro Trabuco Giordano PaltrinieriUn chirurgo Vincenzo Reschiglian


unknown


Fiora Claudia MuzioAvito Giovanni Martinelli

Manfredo Pasquale AmatoArchibaldo Adamo Didur

Flaminio Angelo BadàUn’ancella Minnie Egener


Una vecchia Louise BératUn pastore Marie Tiffany


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4/13/20: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., NY), hour: 2000

Lord Enrico Asthon Giuseppe de LucaMiss Lucia Maria Barrientos

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodHipolito LazaroLord Arturo Buclaw Angelo BadàRaimondo Bidebent Giovanni Martino

Alisa Minnie EgenerNormanno Pietro Audisio


4/20/20: Ye vgeny Onegin(Italian): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera Co., NY), hour: 2000

Ye vgeny Onegin Giuseppe de LucaTatyana Claudia Muzio

Vladimir Lensky Giovanni MartinelliOlga Flora Perini

Prince Gremin Adamo DidurMadame Larina Jeanne Gordon

Filipyevna Kathleen HowardMonsieur Triquet Angelo Badà

A captain Louis d’AngeloZaretsky Millo Picco

Guillot Adam Lellmanmaestro direttore Artur Bodanzky

6/03/20: La gioconda(Spring Festival of Opera): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Puccini Grand Opera Company, PhilipF. Ienni), hour: 2015: stage director Louis Raybaut; incidental ballets by Corps from theMetropolitan Opera House, arranged by Maria Raybaut

La gioconda Francesca PeraltaLaura Adorno Stella de Mette

Alvise Badoero Pietro de BiasiLa cieca Fernanda Doria

Enzo Grimaldo Manuel SalazarBarnaba Vincente Ballester

Zuàne Natale CerviUn cantore unknown

Isèpo Giordano PaltrinieriUn pilota Louis d’Angelo

maestro direttore Carlo Peronimaestro del coro Jean Pellitte

6/03/20: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage director Joseph Craig Fox

The Mikado of Japan Clarence C. BrintonNanki-Poo Philip Warren Cooke

Ko-Ko Leslie Wells JoyPoo-Bah Norman L. Barr

Pish-Tush Franklin L. WoodYum-Yum Marion TaylorPitti-Sing Elizabeth Hood LattaPeep-Bo Lydia M. W. BeattyKatisha Elsie Morris Brinton


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6/04/20: Faust: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Puccini Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: stage director LouisRaybaut; incidental ballets by Corps from the Metropolitan Opera House, arranged by MariaRaybaut

Le docteur Faust Romeo Boscacci Rodolfo Pili

Méphistophélès Pietro de BiasiMarguerite Louise Darcle (aka: Louise Taylor)

Valentin Mario ValleSiébel Fernanda Doria

Dame Marthe Schwertlein Mary MackeyWa gner Louis d’Angelo

maestro direttore Carlo Peronimaestro del coro Jean Pellitte

6/04/20: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Little Theatre (The Savo yCompany)6/05/20: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Puccini Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: stage director Louis

Raybaut; incidental ballets by Corps from the Metropolitan Opera House, arranged by MariaRaybaut

Il duca di Mantova Mario ChamleeRigoletto Vincente Ballester

Gilda Evelyn ScotneySparafucile Pietro de BiasiMaddalena Fernanda Doria

Il conte di Monterone Natale CerviMatteo Borsa Giordano Paltrinieri

La contessa di Ceprano Mary MellishGiovanna Lavinia Puglioli

Il cavaliere Marullo Paul LentiniIl conte di Ceprano Vincente Resino

Pa g gio della duchessaEmma Bornigiamaestro direttore Carlo Peronimaestro del coro Jean Pellitte

6/05/20: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Little Theatre (The Savo yCompany)6/17/20: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): 6/03/20 except:

Yum-Yum Mrs. Edmund GoslingPitti-Sing Mrs. Eleanor Roberts

6/30/20: Otello: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Italian Lyric Federation, Alfredo Salmaggi)

Otello Nicola ZerolaJa go Vincente Ballester

Cassio Luigi FiniRoderigo Vincenzo de BlasioLodovico Pietro de BiasiMontàno Augusto Manghi

Desdemona Louise Darcle Bianca Saroya (Alma Weisshaar)

Emilia Ada Paggimaestro direttore Adriano Ariani

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9/16/20: Der Freischütz(German): Philadelphia, Schuetzen Park, Tabor (German Company)

Ottokar Oscar HoffmannKuno Felix Marr

Agathe Lina WeingaertnerÄnnchen Elsa PhillippbaarKaspar Heinrich Desfeld

Max Teles LongtinKilian Oscar HoffmannSamiel Rudolph Duering

Ein Eremit Charles Formaestro direttore Waldeman Alfredo

10/07/20: Aida: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Italian Lyric Federation)

Il re d’Egitto Paolo GalassiAmneris Dorothea Pilzer Ada Paggi

Aida Marie Stapleton MurrayRadamès Carlo Marziali (aka: Earl Marshall)

Ramfis Italo PicchiAmonasro Angelo Antola

Un messaggero Antonio PaoloniUna sacerdotessa unknownmaestro direttore Fulgenzio Guerrieri

10/09/20: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Italian Lyric Federation), matinée

Carmen Barbara EldredgeDon José Romeo BoscacciEscamillo Arnoldo Becker

Micaëla Adele MannaFr asquita Philine FalcoMercédès Marie Klinova

Zuniga Italo PicchiMoralès Giuseppe Cervi

Le Dancaïre unknownLe Remendado P. Paoloni


10/14/20: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Italian Lyric Federation)

Il conte di Luna Angelo AntolaLeonora Barbara EldredgeAzucena Gilda BossiManrico Giuseppe Inzerillo

Ferrando Italo PicchiInes Margaret GentileRuiz unknown


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10/21/20: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Italian Lyric Federation)

Santuzza Adele MannaLola Eleanora Marlo

Turiddu Romeo BoscacciAlfio Luigi dalle Molle

Lucia Margaret Gentilemaestro direttore Chalmers Clifton

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Italian Lyric Federation)

Canio Carlo MarzialiNedda Mary BerneTonio Angelo AntolaBeppe Luigi FiniSilvio Luigi dalle Molle

maestro direttore Ugo Barducci

10/28/20: La forza del destino: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Italian Lyric Federation)

Il marchese di Calatrava Luigi dalle MolleLeonora di Vargas Barbara Eldredge

Don Carlo di Vargas Carlo FerrettiDon Alvaro Giuseppe Tricario Romeo Boscacci

Preziosilla Ada PaggiPadre Guardiano Italo Picchi

Fr a Melitone unknownCurra Marie Klinova

Un alcade Antonio FiorelloMastro Trabuco Luigi Fini


John Curtis writes: [This] was the last appearance of the organization as the Italian Lyric Federation. Messrs.Lovergine and Davascio, having assumed the financial burden, fired Salmaggi, and announced that theorganization will henceforth be know as the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company.

11/02/20: I gioielli della Madonna(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society)

Gennaro Paul VolkmannCarmela Josephine BonniwellMaliella Emily Stokes HagarRafaele Reinhold Schmidt

Biaso Frederick W. WyattCiccillo Chris W. Graham

Stella Charlotte T. LoebenConcetta Dorothy Fox

Serena Elizabeth H. BreyGrazia Jeannette Kerr

Totonno Chris W. GrahamRocco Ernest Warwick


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11/04/20: Otello: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company)

Otello Carlo MarzialiJa go P. Mazzoni

Cassio Luigi FiniRoderigo Vincenzo de BlasioLodovico Italo PicchiMontàno Augusto Manghi

Desdemona Cornelia ZuccariEmilia Anita Klinova


11/10/20: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company)

La gioconda Barbara EldredgeLaura Adorno Eugenia Alganoff (aka: Eugenia Smith)

Alvise Badoero Italo PicchiLa cieca Anita Klinova

Enzo Grimaldo Carlo MarzialiBarnaba Sig.Marini Giorgio Puliti

Zuàne unknownUn cantore unknown

Isèpo unknownUn pilota unknown

Un monaco Sig.Marinimaestro direttore Ugo Balducci

11/18/20: La traviata: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: stagedirector Alex. Puglia; ballet mistress Ester Zanini; assistant conductor G. Renzetti; orchestramanager L. Palladino; costumer A. Bassi; wigmaker A. Senz

Violetta Valéry Cornelia ZuccariAlfredo Germont Constantino SorvinoGiorgio Germont Angelo Antola A. Evense

Flora Bervoix Adelaide WilkinsonIl barone Douphol J. P. White

Il dottor Grenvil Fausto BozzaAnnina Anita Klinova (aka:Mrs. Balducci)

Gastone di Letorières A. FiniIl marchese d’Obigny Giuseppe di Massa

maestro direttore Ugo Balduccimaestro del coro L. Agugna

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11/29/20: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, Ralph D. Paonessa),hour: 2015

Il duca di Mantova Domenico PaonessaRigoletto Gordon Kay

Gilda Velma SuttonSparafucile Italo PicchiMaddalena Carolina Modesti

Il conte di Monterone Giuseppe di MassaMatteo Borsa Antonio Paoloni

La contessa di Ceprano Anita KlinovaGiovanna Adelaide Wilkinson

Il cavaliere Marullo Mario CiaramellaIl conte di Ceprano Luigi dalle Molle

Pa g gio della duchessaG. Pugliolimaestro direttore Eugenio Pinelli

The Philadelphia Grand Opera Company (previously known as the Italian Lyric Federation) is actually a NewYork company. John Curtis notes that the chorus has been especially ragged, and now his son, John Curtis, Jr.,has been engaged as the company’s chorus master, and has been assigned the task of recruiting and training achorus of Philadelphia singers for local performances.

11/30/20: La juive: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

La princesse Eudoxie Evelyn ScotneyRachel Rosa Ponselle

Le Juif Éléazar Enrico CarusoLe Cardinal de Brogni Léon Rothier

Léopold Rafaelo Díaz Orville Harrold

Ruggiero Robert LeonhardtAlbert Louis d’Angelo

Héraut d’Armes de l’Empereur Paolo AnanianMajordome Paolo Ananian




Carmen Geraldine FarrarDon José Giovanni MartinelliEscamillo Clarence Whitehill

Micaëla Alice MiriamFr asquita Mary MellishMercédès Frances Ingram

Zuniga Giovanni MartinoMoralès Mario Laurenti

Le Dancaïre Robert LeonhardtLe Remendado Octave Dua

maestro direttore Albert Wolff

Florence Rudolph (Act II)Rosina Galli (Act IV)

Giuseppe Bonfiglio (Act IV)

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12/14/20: Mefistofele: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Mefistofele Adamo DidurFaust Beniamino Gigli

Margherita Frances AldaElena Florence Easton

Wa gner Angelo BadàMarta Flora Perini Kathleen Howard

Pantalis Flora PeriniNerèo Giordano Paltrinieri


12/16/20: Faust: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company)

Le docteur Faust Domenico PaonessaMéphistophélès Italo Pecchi

Marguerite Gene KarolaValentin Luigi dalle Molle

Siébel Anita KlinovaDame Marthe Schwertlein Bianca Barducci

Wa gner not performedmaestro direttore Ugo Barduccimaestro del coro John Curtis, Jr.


Mimì Frances AldaRodolfo Beniamino Gigli




AlcindoroMusetta Anne Roselle



1/18/21: Tristan und Isolde(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Isolde Margarete MatzenauerTristan Johannes Sembach

Brangäne Jeanne GordonKurwenal Robert Leonhardt

König Marke William GustafsonMelot Mario Laurenti

Ein junger Seemann Rafaelo DíazEin Hirt Rafaelo Díaz Octave Dua

Der Steuermann Louis d’Angelomaestro direttore Artur Bodanzky

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1/22/21: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, G. Russo)

Miss Lucia Melvina PassmoreSir Edgardo di RavenswoodSalvatore Sciaretti

Lord Enrico Asthon Antonio ScarduzioRaimondo Bidebent Giuseppe PimazzoniLord Arturo Buclaw Antonio Paoloni

Alisa Anita KlinovaNormanno Arturo Biassi

maestro direttore Ugo Balduccimaestro del coro John Curtis, Jr.

1/25/21: Don Carlo(Italian): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Filippo II Adamo DidurDon Carlo Giulio Crimi

Rodrigo Giuseppe de LucaElisabetta di Valois Rosa Ponselle

La principessa d’Eboli Jeanne GordonIl grande inquisitore Louis d’Angelo

Un frate William GustafsonTebaldo Ellen Dalossy

La contessa d’Aremberg Maria SavageIl conte di Lerma Angelo BadàUn araldo reale Angelo Badà

Una voce dal cielo Marie SundeliusDeputy Giuseppe de Luca


Giuseppe de Luca


Floria Tosca Claudia MuzioMario Cavaradossi Giovanni Martinelli



Sciarrone Vincenzo ReschiglianUn pastore Cecil Arden

Un carceriere Louis d’Angelomaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni


Cio-Cio-San Florence EastonB. F. Pinkerton Orville Harrold



Lo zio Yakusidé Francesco CerriLo zio Bonzo Paolo Ananian



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2/26/21: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company)

Santuzza Louise DarcleLola Agnes Kraemer

Turiddu Domenico PaonessaAlfio Gordon Kay

Lucia Lydia Gregorimaestro direttore Edward Lebegott

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company)

Canio Domenico Paonessa Antonio Albano

Nedda Hollie StailesTonio Giorgio PulitiBeppe Antonio PaoloniSilvio Arturo Belfiore

maestro direttore Edward Lebegott Ugo Barducci

3/01/21: Andrea Chénier(Metropolitan Opera premiere): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company,New York): stage director Samuel Thewman; set design Triangle Studio (Acts I, II), James Fox(Acts III, IV); costume design Triangle Studio, Mathilde Castel-Bert; choreography Rosina Galli

Andrea Chénier Beniamino GigliCarlo Gérard Giuseppe Danise

Maddalena di Coigny Frances Peralta Claudia Muzio

La mulatta Bersi Ellen DalossyLa contessa di Coigny Kathleen Howard

La vecchia Madelon Flora PeriniRoucher Millo Picco

Il romanziere, Pietro Fléville Mario LaurentiFouquier-Tinville Robert Leonhardt

Il sanculotto Mathieu detto «Populus»Paolo AnanianUn «Incredibile» Angelo Badà

L’abate Giordano PaltrinieriIl maestro di casa Vincenzo Reschiglian

Schmidt Vincenzo ReschiglianDumas Louis d’Angelo


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3/08/21: Louise: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Louise Geraldine FarrarJulien Orville Harrold

La mère Louise BératLa père Léon Rothier

La petite chiffonnière Elvira LeveroniLa glaneuse de charbonCecil Arden

Le noctambule Rafaelo DíazLa plieuse Anne Roselle

Le bricoleur Louis d’AngeloLa laitière Minnie Egener

Le chiffonnier Paolo AnanianLe premier gardien de la paix M. Righi

Le deuxième gardien de la paixGiuseppe SterziniLe gavroche Mary Ellis

La balayeuse Gladys AxmanLe peintre Vincenzo Reschiglian

Le sculpteur Millo PiccoLe chansonnier Mario Laurenti

Le premier philosophe Robert LeonhardtLe jeune poète Pompilio Malatesta

Le deuxième philosophePietro AudisioL’apprentie Mary EllisL’étudiant Giordano Paltrinieri

Le rempailleuse Cecil ArdenLa marchande d’artichauts Marie Tiffany

Le marchand de carottesPietro AudisioLa marchande de mouronMary Mellish

Un marchand ambulant Mario LaurentiBlanche Alice Miriam

Marguerite Mary MellishSuzanne Marie Tiffany

Gertrude Flora PeriniCamille Minnie Egener

Irma Ellen DalossyÉlise Anne Roselle

Madeleine Edna KelloggLe marchand d’habits Giordano Paltrinieri

La première Gladys AxmanLe pape des fous Rafaelo Díaz

An errand girl Mary Ellismaestro direttore Albert Wolff

Florence Rudolph

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Il duca di Mantova Charles HackettRigoletto Giuseppe de Luca

Gilda Cora ChaseSparafucile Léon RothierMaddalena Kathleen Howard Flora Perini

Giovanna Louise BératIl conte di Monterone Louis d’Angelo


Il conte di Ceprano Vincenzo ReschiglianLa contessa di Ceprano Mary Mellish

Pa g gio della duchessaLavinia Pugliolimaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

3/17/21: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Verdi Grand Opera Company, Mr. Primavera)

Il conte di Luna Silvio GaravelliLeonora Agnes RobinsonAzucena Dora DoreaManrico Romeo Boscacci

Ferrando Nino RuisiInes Anna AlperniRuiz Joseph Springfield

Un vecchio zingaro chorus member Ferdinando di Giacomo


3/19/21: Aida: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company)

Il re d’Egitto Luigi dalle MolleAmneris Ada Paggi

Aida Louise DarcleRadamès F. Boccafusco

Ramfis Italo PicchiAmonasro Giorgio Puliti

Un messaggero Luigi di CesareUna sacerdotessa Ilda Godwinmaestro direttore Fulgenzio Guerrieri


Il re d’Egitto Louis d’AngeloAmneris Julia Claussen

Aida Claudia MuzioRadamès Giulio Crimi

Ramfis Léon RothierAmonasro Renato Zanelli

Un messaggero Pietro AudisioUna sacerdotessa Sue Harvardmaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

Florence Rudolph

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3/29/21: Manon: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Manon Lucrezia BoriLe chevalier des Grieux Charles Hackett

Lescaut Thomas ChalmersLe comte des Grieux Léon Rothier

Guillot de Morfontaine Paolo AnanianDe Brétigny Mario Laurenti

Poussette Marie TiffanyJavotte Minnie EgenerRosette Cecil Arden

L’hôtelier Robert LeonhardtPremier garde Vincenzo Reschiglian

Deuxième garde Louis d’AngeloLa servante Maria Savage

maestro direttore Albert Wolff

Rosina GalliLilyan OgdenJessie Rogge

Grace GibbonsFlorence McNally

Miss SchwartzFlorence Rudolph

Giuseppe Bonfiglio


Santuzza Frances PeraltaLola Marion Telva

Turiddu Beniamino GigliAlfio Millo Picco

Lucia Cecil Ardenmaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

Il segreto di Susanna: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

La contessa SusannaLucrezia BoriIl conte Gil Thomas Chalmers

Sante Giordano Paltrinierimaestro direttore Gennaro Papi

L’oracolo: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Uin-Scî Adamo DidurCim-Fen Antonio ScottiHu-Tsin Millo PiccoAh-Joe Raymonde Delaunois

L’indovino Giordano PaltrinieriUin-San-Lui Rafaelo Díaz

Hua-Qui Cecil ArdenHu-Cî Ada Quintina


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4/09/21: La traviata: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Violetta Valéry Melvina PassmoreAlfredo Germont Salvatore SciarettiGiorgio Germont Giorgio Puliti

Flora Bervoix Anita KlinovaIl barone Douphol Luigi dalle Molle

Il dottor Grenvil Americo VicobellauraAnnina Dorothy Kirchner

Gastone di Letorières N. PaoloniIl marchese d’Obigny Luigi Lupone

Un domestico di Flora E. Sparapertusomaestro direttore Fulgenzio Guerrieri


Le docteur Faust Giovanni MartinelliMéphistophélès Léon Rothier

Marguerite Florence EastonValentin Giuseppe Danise

Siébel Mary EllisDame Marthe Schwertlein Louise Bérat

Wa gner Paolo Ananianmaestro direttore Albert Wolff

4/14/21: Norma: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Mascagni Grand Opera Company, L. Valentini): stage directorAlex. Puglia

Norma Agnes RobinsonPollione L. ValentiniAdalgisa Agnes KraemerOroveso Italo PicchiClotilde Anita Klinova

Flavio G. di Giuseppemaestro direttore Edward Lebegottmaestro del coro John Curtis, Jr.

4/19/21: Lohengrin(English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Heinrich der Vogler William GustafsonLohengrin Orville Harrold

Elsa von Brabant Florence EastonFriedrich von Telramund Clarence Whitehill

Ortrud Julia ClaussenDer Heerrufer des Königs Robert Leonhardt

Edelknaben

Cecil Arden

Sue HarvardEdna KelloggElvira LeveroniAlice MiriamMarion TelvaVeni WarwickClarence Whitehill


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5/05/21: Tosca: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company, Fortune Gallo)

Floria Tosca Anna FitziuMario Cavaradossi Giuseppe Agostini

Il barone Scarpia Giuseppe MontanelliCesare Angelotti Pietro de Biasi

Il sagrestano Natale CerviSpoletta Amedeo Baldi

Sciarrone Manuel PerezUn pastore May Barron

Un carceriere Pietro Canovamaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

5/06/21: La bohème: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company)

Mimì Queena Mario (aka: Queenie Tillotson)Rodolfo Pilade Singara

Marcello Mario ValleSchaunard Manuel Perez

Colline Henri Scott

Natale CerviBenoît

AlcindoroMusetta Madeleine Keltie


5/07/21: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), matinée

Cio-cio-san Anna FitziuB. F. Pinkerton Giuseppe Agostini

Suzuki Stella de MetteSharpless Mario Valle

Goro Amedeo BaldiIl principe Yamadori Natale Cervi

Lo zio Bonzo Pietro de BiasiIl commissario imperiale unknown

Kate Pinkerton Alice Homermaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

5/07/21: La forza del destino: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company)

Il marchese di Calatrava Natale CerviLeonora di Vargas Louise Taylor (aka: Louise Darcle Taylor)

Don Carlo di Vargas Giuseppe MontanelliDon Alvaro Giuseppe Zerbola (aka: Giuseppe Inzerillo)Preziosilla Stella de Mette

Padre Guardiano Pietro de BiasiFr a Melitone Natale Cervi

Curra Alice HomerUn alcade unknown

Mastro Trabuco Amedeo Baldimaestro direttore Gaetano Merola

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5/09/21: The bohemian girl: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Catholic Operatic Society)

Count Arnheim Piotr F. WizlaFlorestein Horace ClementThaddeus Royal F. MacLellan

Devilshoof Robert HarrisArline Nan Woerner

The gypsy queen Mary ComerfordBuda Eleanor F. Jansen

A gypsy Thomas FesmireCaptain of the guard C. A. Schwab

maestro direttore William S. Murphy

5/26/21: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage director Joseph Craig Fox

The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B.Clarence C. BrintonCaptain Corcoran Franklin L. WoodRalph Rackstraw John B. Hipwell

Dick Deadeye, able seamanLeslie Wells JoyBill Bobstay, boatswain John Clark Sims

Bob Becket, boatswain’s mateCraig Heberton, IIMidshipmate Master Elmo Mincher

Josephine Mrs. George Wilcox McIverHebe Elizabeth Hood Latta

Little Buttercup Deborah N. Sealmaestro direttore A. Gordon Mitchell

5/27/21: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/28/21: H. M. S. Pinafore: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)

10/31/21: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Grand Opera Company)

Il duca di Mantova Domenico PaonessaRigoletto Leo de Hierapolis

Gilda Helen MarsSparafucile Nino RuisiMaddalena Elinor Marlo

Il conte di Monterone Pito MontatoMatteo Borsa Antonio Paoloni

La contessa di Ceprano Alma KellerGiovanna Alma Keller

Il cavaliere Marullo Luigi LuponeIl conte di Ceprano Armando Gastone

Pa g gio della duchessaDorothy Kirchnermaestro direttore Ugo Barducci

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11/03/21: Tannhäuser: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society)

Hermann Robert L. HoodTannhäuser Chris W. Graham

Wolfram von EschenbachE. Llewellyn RobertsWalter von der Vogelweide Alfred S. Hitner

Biterolf Louis MartinHeinrich der Schreiber Karl Nocha

Reinmar von Zweter Harry SmithElisabeth Elsie Z. Straub

Venus Adelina Patti NoarEin Hirtenknabe Thelma T. MelroseVier Edelknaben unknownmaestro direttore Wassili Leps

11/28/21: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company presented by PhiladelphiaGrand Opera Association), hour: 2015: stage director B. A. Altieri; costumes Ottone Pernpruner;ballet arrangements Luigi Albertieri; scenery Carmine Vitola; orchestra manager Francesco Liazza;librarian Silvio Palma; master carpenter Charles Sturbitts; master of properties A. Nicolai; chiefelectrician William Fink; wardrobe mistressMme.Mollie Louch

Carmen Esther FerrabiniDon José Romeo BoscacciEscamillo Joseph Royer

Micaëla Madeleine KeltieFr asquita Frances MorosiniMercédès Anita Klinova

Zuniga Pietro de BiasiMoralès Nicola d’Amico

Le Dancaïre Joseph TudiscoLe Remendado Natale Cervi


prima ballerina Sylvia Tell

11/29/21: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Lord Enrico Asthon Giuseppe DaniseMiss Lucia Amelita Galli-Curci

Sir Edgardo di RavenswoodGiovanni MartinelliLord Arturo Buclaw Giordano PaltrinieriRaimondo Bidebent José Mardones

Alisa Grace AnthonyNormanno Pietro Audisio


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11/29/21: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il duca di Mantova Giuseppe Agostini Romeo Boscacci

Rigoletto Joseph Royer Gaetano Viviano

Gilda Josephine LuccheseSparafucile Pietro de BiasiMaddalena Ada Paggi

Il conte di Monterone Natale CerviMatteo Borsa Joseph Tudisco

La contessa di Ceprano Frances MorosiniGiovanna Anita Klinova

Il cavaliere Marullo Nicola d’AmicoIl conte di Ceprano Pietro Canova

Pa g gio della duchessaAnita Klinovamaestro direttore Ernesto Knoch

11/30/21: Aida: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il re d’Egitto Natale CerviAmneris Nina Frascani

Aida Marie RappoldRadamès Gaetano Tommasini

Ramfis Pietro de BiasiAmonasro Gaetano Viviano

Un messaggero Joseph TudiscoUna sacerdotessa Anita Klinovamaestro direttore Carlo Peroni


12/01/21: La forza del destino: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il marchese di Calatrava Natale CerviLeonora di Vargas Bianca Saroya

Don Carlo di Vargas Joseph RoyerDon Alvaro Gaetano TommasiniPreziosilla Ada Paggi

Padre Guardiano Natale CerviFr a Melitone Pietro de Biasi

Curra Anita KlinovaMastro Trabuco Joseph Tudisco

maestro direttore Ernesto Knoch


12/02/21: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Cio-cio-san Anna Fitziu (pka: Anna Fitzhugh)B. F. Pinkerton Giuseppe Agostini

Suzuki Ada PaggiSharpless Joseph Royer Graham Marr

Goro Joseph TudiscoIl principe Yamadori Natale Cervi


Kate Pinkerton Anita KlinovaL’ufficiale del registro unknown


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12/03/21: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 1430

Hoffmann Romeo BoscacciNicklausse Ada Paggi

Olympia Josephine LuccheseAntonia Josephine Lucchese

Giulietta Madeleine KeltieCoppélius Joseph Royer

Dr. Miracle Pietro de BiasiDapertutto Joseph RoyerCochenille Joseph Tudisco

Fr antz Joseph TudiscoLa mère d’Antonia Frances Morosini

Spalanzani Natale CerviSchlémil Nicola d’Amico

Nathanaël Pietro CanovaLuther Nicola d’Amico

Crespel Natale Cervimaestro direttore Ernesto Knoch

12/03/21: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il conte di Luna Gaetano VivianoLeonora Bianca SaroyaAzucena Nina FrascaniManrico Gaetano Tommasini

Ferrando Pietro de BiasiInes Anita KlinovaRuiz Joseph Tudisco



12/05/21: La traviata: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Violetta Valéry Josephine LuccheseAlfredo Germont Giuseppe AgostiniGiorgio Germont Gaetano Viviano

Flora Bervoix Frances MorosiniIl barone Douphol Joseph Tudisco

Il dottor Grenvil Natale CerviAnnina Anita Klinova

Gastone di Letorières Nicola d’AmicoIl marchese d’Obigny unknown



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12/06/21: Louise: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Louise Geraldine FarrarJulien Aureliano Pertile

La mère Louise BératLa père Léon Rothier

La petite chiffonnière Myrtle SchaafLa glaneuse de charbonCecil Arden

Le noctambule George MeaderLe bricoleur Louis d’Angelo

La laitière Anne RoselleLe chiffonnier Paolo Ananian

Le premier gardien de la paix Raymonde DelaunoisLe deuxième gardien de la paixGiuseppe Sterzini

Le gavroche Mary EllisLa balayeuse Gladys Axman

Le peintre Vincenzo ReschiglianLe sculpteur Millo Picco

Le chansonnier Mario LaurentiLe premier philosophe Robert Leonhardt

Le jeune poète Pompilio MalatestaLe deuxième philosophePietro Audisio

L’apprentie Mary EllisL’étudiant Giordano Paltrinieri

Le rempailleuse Cecil ArdenLa marchande d’artichauts Myrtle Schaaf

Le marchand de carottesGiordano PaltrinieriLa marchande de mouronMary Mellish

Un marchand ambulant Mario LaurentiBlanche Alice Miriam

Marguerite Mary MellishSuzanne Marie Tiffany

Gertrude Flora PeriniCamille Ellen Dalossy

Irma Raymonde DelaunoisÉlise Anne Roselle

Madeleine Grace AnthonyLe marchand d’habits Giordano Paltrinieri

La première Gladys AxmanLe pape des fous George Meader

An errand girl Mary Ellismaestro direttore Albert Wolff

Florence Rudolph

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12/06/21: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

La gioconda Elizabeth AmsdenLaura Adorno Nina Frascani

Alvise Badoero Pietro de BiasiLa cieca Beatrice Eaton

Enzo Grimaldo Gaetano TommasiniBarnaba Joseph Royer

Zuàne Natale CerviUn cantore Manuel Perez

Isèpo Joseph TudiscoUn pilota unknown

Un monaco unknownmaestro direttore Carlo Peroni


12/07/21: Hänsel und Gretel: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 1430

Peter Joseph RoyerGertrud Anita KlinovaHänsel Elinor MarloGretel Helen Fechter

Die Knusperhexe Sara BurdickSandmännchen unknownTaumännchen Beatrice Divver


Divertissement(ballet: unknown German, [Victor] Herbert, unknown Strauss): The Ethel Phillips DancersPhilip Warrington, Henrietta Peters, Margaret SadlerWanda Dorsweski, Ethel Phillips, Lloyd Mann, Thais

12/07/21: La bohème: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: [2015]

Mimì Bianca SaroyaRodolfo Giuseppe Agostini

Marcello Joseph RoyerSchaunard Nicola d’Amico

Colline Henri Scott

Natale CerviBenoît

AlcindoroMusetta Madeleine Keltie

Parpignol unknownSergente dei doganieri unknown

Un ufficiale unknownmaestro direttore Ernesto Knoch

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12/08/21: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Santuzza Bianca SaroyaLola Mary Allen Beatrice d’Alessandro

Turiddu Romeo BoscacciAlfio Nicola d’Amico

Lucia Anita Klinovamaestro direttore Walter Pfeiffer

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company)

Canio Gaetano TommasiniNedda Madeleine KeltieTonio Gaetano VivianoBeppe Joseph TudiscoSilvio Nicola d’Amico


12/09/21: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Miss Lucia Josephine LuccheseSir Edgardo di RavenswoodGiuseppe Agostini

Lord Enrico Asthon Ciro de Ritis Gaetano Viviano

Raimondo Bidebent Pietro de BiasiLord Arturo Buclaw Joseph Tudisco

Alisa Anita KlinovaNormanno Pietro Canova


12/10/21: Lohengrin: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 1415

Heinrich der Vogler Henri ScottLohengrin Giuseppe Agostini

Elsa von Brabant Anna FitziuFriedrich von Telramund Joseph Royer

Ortrud Eleanora de CisnerosDer Heerrufer des Königs Nicola d’Amico


12/10/21: Otello: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Otello Romeo BoscacciJago Augustus Ordonez Mario Valle

Cassio Joseph TudiscoRoderigo Arthur DorshLodovico Pietro de BiasiMontàno Natale Cervi

Un araldo Pietro CanovaDesdemona Bianca Saroya

Emilia Anita Klinovamaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

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Il re d’Egitto Natale CerviAmneris Ada Paggi

Aida Bianca SaoyaRadamès Gaetano Tommasini

Ramfis Pietro de BiasiAmonasro Joseph Royer

Un messaggero Joseph TudiscoUna sacerdotessa Anita Klinovamaestro direttore Ernesto Knoch


12/13/21: Ernani: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Ernani Giovanni Martinelli Giulio Crimi

Don Carlo Giuseppe DaniseDon Ruy Gomez de SilvaJosé Mardones

Donna Elvira Rosa PonselleGiovanna Grace Anthony

Don Riccardo Giordano PaltrinieriJa go Vincenzo Reschiglian



Giuseppe Bonfiglio


Il conte di Luna Gaetano Viviano Mario Valle

Leonora Bianca SaroyaAzucena Beatrice EatonManrico Gaetano Tommasini

Ferrando Pietro de BiasiInes Anita KlinovaRuiz Joseph Tudisco


12/14/21: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 1430: stage directorB. A. Altieri; costumes by Ottone Pernpruner; scenery by Carmine Vitola; ballets arranged by LuigiAlbertieri; orchestra manager Francesco Liazza; librarian Silvio Palma; master carpenter CharlesSturbitts; property master A. Nicolai; chief electrician William Fink; wardrobe mistress MollieLouch

Carmen Nina FrascaniDon José Romeo BoscacciEscamillo Henri Scott

Micaëla Elizabeth GutmanFr asquita Anita KlinovaMercédès Frances Morosini

Zuniga Pietro de BiasiMoralès Manuel Perez

Le Dancaïre Joseph TudiscoLe Remendado Natale Cervi



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12/14/21: Tosca: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Floria Tosca Anna FitziuMario Cavaradossi Giuseppe Agostini

Il barone Scarpia Joseph RoyerCesare Angelotti Pietro de Biasi

Il sagrestano Natale CerviSpoletta Joseph Tudisco

Sciarrone Manuel PerezUn pastore Anita Klinova

Un carceriere Pietro Canovamaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

12/15/21: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il conte d’Almaviva Romeo BoscacciIl dottore Bartolo Natale Cervi

Rosina Josephine LuccheseFigaro Mario Valle

Don Basilio Pietro de BiasiFiorello Joseph Tudisco

Berta Anita KlinovaUn ufficiale unknown

Ambrogio unknownmaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

Lesson Scene:Le perle du Brazil Charmant l’oisseau

12/16/21: Faust: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Le docteur Faust Joseph AgostiniMéphistophélès Henri Scott

Marguerite Bianca SaroyaValentin Joseph Royer

Siébel Beatrice d’AlessandroDame Marthe Schwertlein Anita Klinova

Wa gner Manuel Perezmaestro direttore Ernesto Knoch



Cio-cio-san Anna FitziuB. F. Pinkerton Romeo Boscacci

Suzuki Ada PaggiSharpless Mario Valle

Goro Joseph TudiscoIl principe Yamadori Natale Cervi


Kate Pinkerton Anita KlinovaL’ufficiale del registro unknown


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Santuzza Bianca SaroyaLola Beatrice Eaton

Turiddu Giuseppe AgostiniAlfio Nicola d’Amico

Lucia Anita Klinovamaestro direttore Walter Pfeiffer


Canio Gaetano TommasiniNedda Madeleine KeltieTonio Gaetano Viviano Joseph Royer

Beppe Joseph TudiscoSilvio Nicola d’Amico


12/27/21: Lohengrin(German): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York): hour: 1930

Heinrich der Vogler Robert BlassLohengrin Orville Harrold Johannes Sembach

Elsa von Brabant Maria JeritzaFriedrich von Telramund Clarence Whitehill

Ortrud Margarete MatzenauerDer Heerrufer des Königs Carl Schlegel

Vier Edelknaben

Grace Anthony

Grace BradleyAlice MiriamMarie Tiffany


John Curtis notes that this was the first time opera had been sung openly in German since the U.S. entered thewar, but the chorus sang in English as in war time, not having a chance to "brush up" on German.

19221/10/22: Le roi d’Ys(Edouard Lalo): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Rozenn Frances AldaMargared Jeanne Gordon

Mylio Beniamino GigliKarnac Giuseppe Danise

Le roi Léon RothierSaint Corentin Paolo Ananian

Jahel Millo Piccomaestro direttore Albert Wolff

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1/24/22: Boris Godunov(Italian): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Boris Godunov Fyodor ChaliapinFeodor Raymonde Delaunois

Xenia Grace Anthony Ellen Dalossy

Xenia’s nurse Kathleen HowardPrince Vassili Ivanovich ShuiskyAngelo Badà

Andrei Shchelkalov Carl SchlegelPimen José Mardones

Grigory Otrepiev / Dimitri Rafaelo DíazMarina Mnishek Margarete Matzenauer

Varlaam Paolo AnanianMissail Pietro Audisio

Hostess of the inn Marie MattfeldThe simpleton Giordano Paltrinieri

Nikitch Louis d’AngeloLavitsky Vincenzo Reschiglian

Chernikovsky Vincenzo ReschiglianBoyer in attendance Giordano Paltrinieri


1/25/22: La fille du régiment[English]: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Catholic Operatic Society)

Marie Nan WoernerTonio Bernard Poland

La marquise de BerkenfieldPauline A. ClaveyHortensius Edward P. Welsh

Sulpice Piotr WizlaLe caporal Norman L. Barr

La duchesse de CrakentorpMarguerite Bradymaestro direttore William S. Murphy

1/31/22: Spitzentuchder Königin(Johann Strauß:The queen’s lace hankerchief), English: Philadelphia, Academy of Music(Philadelphia Operatic Society): stage director Karl T. F. Schroeder; assistant conductor JohnThoms, Jr.; wardrobe mistress Anna M. Upp; librarian Amy Marion Young; costumes Joseph C.Fischer; wigs A. M. Buch & Co.; Act 3 march: "Keeping step with the Union", John Philip Sousa

Queen Cora FryeIrene Lillian Taiz

Marchioness Eva Allen RitterKing Chris W. Graham

Sancho Charles J. ShuttleworthPremier D. L. Mathews, Jr.

Cervantes John B. Becker

Otto E. BossDon Quixote

Minister of War

Charles D. LongAntonio

Minister of PoliceMinister of Justice Frank G. Ritter

Master of Ceremonies Herbert BeardDancing Master Effie R. MacCainmaestro direttore Wassili Leps

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2/07/22: Don Carlo(Italian): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Filippo II Adamo DidurDon Carlo Giulio Crimi

Rodrigo Giuseppe de LucaElisabetta di Valois Rosa Ponselle

La principessa d’Eboli Margarete MatzenauerIl grande inquisitore Louis d’Angelo

Un frate William GustafsonTebaldo Anne Roselle

La contessa d’Aremberg Maria SavageUn araldo reale Giordano Paltrinieri

Una voce dal cielo Marie SundeliusDeputy Giuseppe de Luca


Giuseppe de Luca

2/14/22: La traviata: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Violetta Valéry Amelita Galli-CurciAlfredo Germont Beniamino GigliGiorgio Germont Giuseppe de Luca

Flora Bervoix Minnie EgenerIl barone Douphol Millo Picco

Il dottor Grenvil Louis d’AngeloAnnina Grace Anthony

Gastone di Letorières Angelo BadàIl marchese d’Obigny Mario Laurenti


Amelita Galli-CurciGiuseppe de Luca

Giuseppe Bonfiglio

2/27/22: Tannhäuser: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Chicago Opera Association), hour: 2015: stage directorJacques Coini

Hermann Edouard CotreuilTannhäuser Richard Schubert

Wolfram von EschenbachJoseph SchwartzWalter von der Vogelweide Jose Mojica

Biterolf Désiré DefrèreHeinrich der Schreiber Octave Dua

Reinmar von Zweter Constantin NicolayElisabeth Rosa Raisa

Venus Cyrena van GordonEin Hirtenknabe Margery Maxwell

Vier Edelknaben

Margery Maxwell

Sadie VanderboschPhiline FalcoAnna Corenti

maestro direttore Angelo Ferrari Pietro Cimini

Andreas Pavley, Serge OukrainskyMlles. Nemeroff, Shermont, Ledowa, Dagmara, Milar, Elisius

corps de ballet

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2/28/22: Tosca: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Floria Tosca Maria JeritzaMario Cavaradossi Orville Harrold



Sciarrone Vincenzo ReschiglianUn pastore Angelo Badà

Un carceriere Louis d’Angelomaestro direttore Giuseppe Bamboschek

2/28/22: Salomè: Philadelphia (Chicago Opera Association)

Salomè Mary GardenHerodes Riccardo Martin

Herodias Eleanor ReynoldsJochanaan Hector DufranneNarraboth Jose Mojica

Der Page der Herodias Irene PavloskaErster Jude Jose Jojica

Zweiter Jude Lodovico OlivieroDritter Jude Octave DuaVierter Jude Louis DermanFünfter Jude Désiré Defrère

Erster Nazarener Virgilio LazzariZweiter Nazarener Etienne Contesso

Erster Soldat Edouard CotreuilZweiter Soldat Constantin Nicolay

Ein Coppadocier Virgilio LazzariEine Sklave Philine Falco


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3/01/22: Le jongleur de Notre Dame: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Chicago Opera Association), hour: 2015:stage director Jacques Coini

Jean Mary GardenBoniface Hector DufranneLe prieur Edouard Cotreuil

Un moine sculpteur Constantin NicolayUn moine peintre Virgilio Lazzari

Un moine musicien Désiré DefrèreUn moine poète Octave Dua

Un moine crieur Benjamin de LoacheUn ivrogne Abraham Robofsky

La vierge(apparition) Sally Gibbsmaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

La fete a Robinson(Ballet, music Gabriel Grovlez, story Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky): Philadelphia,Metropolitan Opera House (Chicago Opera Association), hour: 2015: stage director Jacques Coini

The painter Andreas Pavley

His Friends M. Carroll

M. PetriThe waiter M. BachellerThe bride Mlle. Shermont

The bridegroom M. CatonThe father of the bride M. Baker

The mother of the bride Mlle. Elisius

The bridesmaids Mlle. Nemeroff

Mlle. Dagmara

The groomsmen M. Easter

M. BiblitzThe maiden aunt Serge Oukrainsky

Her ward Mlle. MilarThe enfant terrible Mlle. Samuels

The good child Mlle. FelsanThe flower vendor Mlle. Darrow

A grizette Mlle. Campanamaestro direttore Gabriel Grovelez

3/02/22: Roméo et Juliette: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Chicago Opera Association), hour: 2015: stagedirector Jacques Coini; ballet master Serge Oukrainsky, Andreas Pavley

Roméo Lucien MuratoreJuliette Edith Mason

Frère Laurent Edouard CotreuilStéphano Margery MaxwellMercutio Désiré Defrère

Le comte Capulet Hector DufranneGertrude Maria Claessens

Tybalt Octave DuaGrégorio Sallustio Civai

Le duc de Vérone Constantin Nicolaymaestro direttore Giorgio Polacco

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3/03/22: Pelléas et Mélisande: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Chicago Opera Association), hour: 2015: stagedirector Jacques Coini

Méliande Mary GardenPelléas Alfred MaguenatGolaud Hector Dufranne

Geneviève Maria ClaessensArkel Edouard Cotreuil

Yniold Melba GoodmanUn médicin Constantin Nicolay


3/04/22: I gioielli della Madonna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Chicago Opera Association), hour: 1415:stage director Jacques Coini

Gennaro Forrest LamontCarmela Maria ClaessensMaliella Rosa RaisaRafaele Giacomo Rimini

Biaso Lodovico OlivieroCiccillo Jose Mojica

Stella Margery MaxwellConcetta Philine Falco

Serena Irene PavloskaGrazia Ada Nemoroff

Totonno Octave DuaRocco Sallustio Civai

A macaroni vendor Max TroftA toy balloon vendor Giuseppe Minerva

A water vendor Grace CunninghamA vendor of sacred imagesFrancesco Raviola

A flower vendor Elise de ValoisAn ice cream vendor Eugenio Correnti

A fruit vendor Louis DermanFirst monk Paul Aronson

Second monk Elias BerkenbiltA young girl Yolande Preesburg

First young man Harry CantorSecond young manJean de Keyser

The blind man Constantin NicolayFirst girl Sadie Vanderbosch

Second girl Esther LoomisFirst morra player Herman Tappo

Second morra player William FisherThe father Constantin Nicolay

A young mother Anna Correntimaestro direttore Pietro Cimini

Andreas Pavley, Serge OukrainskyMlles. Nemeroff, Shermont, corps de ballet

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3/04/22: Monna Vanna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Chicago Opera Association)


Guido Colonna Georges BaklanoffMarco Colonna Edouard Cotreuil

Vedio Jose MojicaBorso Etienne Contesso



3/07/22: La bohème: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Mimì Lucrezia BoriRodolfo Giovanni Martinelli

Marcello Raymonde DelaunoisSchaunard Adamo Didur



AlcindoroMusetta Raymonde Delaunois



3/14/22: Die Walküre: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1930

Siegmund Johannes SembachHunding William Gustafson

Wotan Clarence WhitehillSieglinde Florence Easton

Brünnhilde Julia ClaussenFricka Jeanne Gordon

Gerhilde Marie TiffanyOrtlinde Alice Miriam

Waltraute Henriette WakefieldSchwertleite Kathleen Howard

Helmwige Marie SundeliusSiegrune Grace Anthony

Grimgerde Grace BradleyRoßweiße Flora Perini


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3/21/22: Andrea Chénier: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Andrea Chénier Beniamino GigliCarlo Gérard Giuseppe Danise

Maddalena di Coigny Claudia MuzioLa mulatta Bersi Ellen Dalossy

La contessa di Coigny Kathleen HowardLa vecchia Madelon Flora Perini

Roucher Millo PiccoIl romanziere, Pietro Fléville Vincenzo Reschiglian

Fouquier-Tinville Robert LeonhardtIl sanculotto Mathieu detto «Populus»Paolo Ananian

Un «Incredibile» Angelo BadàL’abate Giordano Paltrinieri

Il maestro di casa Pompilio MalatestaSchmidt Pompilio MalatestaDumas Louis d’Angelo


3/28/22: Die tote Stadt(Erich Wolfgang Korngold): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, NY),hour: 2000

Paul Orville HarroldMarietta / Die Erscheinung Maries Maria Jeritza

Fr ank Robert LeonhardtBrigitta Marion Telva

Fritz, der Pierrot Robert LeonhardtJuliette Alice Miriam

Lucienne Grace AnthonyGaston Armando Agnini

Victorin Rafaelo DíazGraf Albert Angelo Badà


4/04/22: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Cio-Cio-San Geraldine FarrarB. F. Pinkerton Mario Chamlee


Goro Giordano PaltrinieriIl principe Yamadori Pietro Audisio

Lo zio Yakusidé unknownLo zio Bonzo William Gustafson

Il commissario imperiale Vincenzo ReschiglianKate Pinkerton Cecil Arden

Dolore unknownmaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

4/09/22: Lok Qua(Chinese): Philadelphia, Dumont’s Theatre (On Leong Tong convention event in Chinatown)

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4/11/22: Parsifal (English): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1900

Amfortas Clarence WhitehillTiturel William Gustafson

Gurnemanz Robert BlassParsifal Johannes Sembach

Klingsor Robert LeonhardtKundry Julia Claussen

Erster Gralsritter Angelo BadàZweiter Gralsritter Louis d’Angelo

Altstimme Marion TelvaErster Knappe Pietro Audisio

Zweiter Knappe Mary EllisDritter Knappe George MeaderVierter Knappe Myrtle Schaaf

Zaubermädchen

Raymonde Delaunois

Mary EllisMary MellishAlice MiriamMarie SundeliusMarion Telva


4/16/22: Lok Qua(Chinese): Philadelphia, Dumont’s Theatre4/18/22: Samson et Dalila: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Dalila Margarete Matzenauer Jeanne Gordon

Samson Giovanni MartinelliLe grand-prêtre de Dagon Giuseppe de Luca

Abimélech Carl SchlegelUn vieillard hébreu Léon Rothier

Premier Philistin Giordano PaltrinieriDeuxième Philistin Vincenzo Reschiglian

Un messager philistin Angelo Badàmaestro direttore Louis Hasselmans

Lilyan Ogden

4/24/22: Tsarskaya nevesta(Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:The tsar’s bride): Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian GrandOpera Company, Leo Feodoroff), hour: 2000: scenery and decorations painted by Jacob Anchutin;wigs by Mr. Magorny; stage manager Eugene Shastan; master mechanic Dave Davidson

Gryaznoy Jakob LukinLyubasha Ina Bourskaya

Marfa Sophia OsipovaMalyuta-Skuratov David Tulchinoff

Bomelius Piotr KosloffLykov Nikolai Buzanowsky

Sobakin Nicholas KarlashPetrovna Varvara Losieva

Dunyasha Zinaida IvanovaDomna Saburova Miss Fihermaestro direttore Michael Feveisky

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4/25/22: Pikovaja dama(Pique dame): Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

Prince Yeletsky Leonid GorlenkoNarumoff M. Gwoschef

Lisa Sophia OsipovaHermann Vladimir Daniloff

The governess Varvara LosievaCount Tomsky Jakob LukinTchekalinsky Efim VitisThe countess Ina Bourskaya

Pauline Valja ValentinovaTchaplitsky Piotr Kosloff

Sourin Avram ArdatoffPriliapa Miss Michalovskaya

Turko Max Pantaleeffmaestro direttore Eugene Fuerst

4/26/22: Roussalka(Alexander Dargomyzhsky:The mermaid): Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian Grand OperaCompany), hour: 2000

The miller Nicholas KarlashNatasha Marie Mashir

The prince Nikolai BuzanowskyThe princess Zinaida Ivanova

Olga Miss DaenThe marriage broker David Tulchinoff

The hunter Avram Ardatoffmaestro direttore Michael Feveisky

4/27/22: Snegurochka(Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:The snow maiden): Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian Grand OperaCompany), hour: 2000: scenic artist Jacob Anchutin

Devushka-Snegurochka, Snow maidenOlga KasanskayaLel’ Ina Bourskaya

Car’ Berendej, czar Vladimir DaniloffKoupava Sophia OsipovaMizguir Vladimir Radeeff

Bobylicka Varvara LosievaBobyl’-Bakula Piotr Kosloff

Bermiyta David Tulchinoff1-j Birjuch, herald Efim Vitis2-j Birjuch, herald Avram Ardatoff

maestro direttore Eugene Fuerst

4/28/22: Ye vgeny Onegin(Eugene Onegin): Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

Ye vgeny Onegin Vladimir RadeeffTatyana Marie Mashir

Vladimir Lensky Nikolai BuzanowskyOlga Zinaida Ivanova

Prince Gremin David TulchinoffMadame Larina Varvara Losieva

Filipyevna Valja ValentinovaMonsieur Triquet Piotr Kosloff

Zaretsky Avram Ardatoffmaestro direttore Eugene Fuerst

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4/29/22: Demon(Anton Gregor Rubinstein): Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400

Prince Gudal Nicholas KarlashTamara Sophia Osipova

Prince Sinodal Vladimir SvetloffOld servant Avram ArdatoffMessenger Efim VitisOld nurse Varvara Losieva

Demon Jakob LukinAngel Zinaida Ivanova

maestro direttore Michael Feveisky

4/29/22: Carmen: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian Grand Opera Company)

Carmen Ina BourskayaDon José Vladimir DaniloffEscamillo Max Pantaleeff

Micaëla Marie MashirFr asquita Miss FiherMercédès Varvara Losieva

Zuniga David TulchinoffMoralès M. Gudunoff

Le Dancaïre Avram ArdatoffLe Remendado M. Tuev esky


5/01/22: Ye vgeny Onegin(Eugene Onegin): Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:4/28/22

5/02/22: Snegurochka(The snow maiden): Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:4/27/22

5/03/22: Roussalka(Alexander Dargomyzhsky:The mermaid): Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian Grand OperaCompany), hour: 2000: 4/26/22 except:

5/04/22: Tsarskaya nevesta(The tsar’s bride): Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000:4/24/22 except:

Marfa Olga Kasanskaya

5/05/22: Boris Godunov: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian Grand Opera Company), hour: 2000

Boris Godunov Nicholas KarlashFeodor Zinaida IvanovaXenia Miss Michalovskaya

Xenia’s nurse Varvara LosievaPrince Vassili Ivanovich ShuiskyVladimir Svetloff

Pimen Max PantaleeffGrigory Otrepiev / Dimitri Vladimir Daniloff

Marina Mnishek Ina BourskayaRangoni Leonid GorlenkoVarlaam David TulchinoffMissail Piotr Kosloff

Hostess of the inn Valja Valentinovamaestro direttore Michael Feveisky

5/06/22: Ye vgeny Onegin(Eugene Onegin): Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian Grand Opera Company), hour: 1400:4/28/22

5/06/22: Boris Godunov: Philadelphia, Forrest Theatre (Russian Grand Opera Company): 5/05/22

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5/25/22: Iolanthe: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage director Owen Fitzgerald; accompanistRuth Barber

The Lord Chancellor Charles Francis WardLord Mountararat Leslie Wells Joy

Earl Tolloller Walter AntrimPrivate Willis, of the Grenadier GuardsJohn Clark Sims

Strephon, an arcadian shepherdNelson EddyQueen of the fairies Anne Guyer

Iolanthe Mrs. George P. MillingtonCelia Deborah N. SealLeila Sara B. BaileyFleta Frances K. Wister

Phyllis, an arcadian shepherdessMarie ZaraPa g e Ruth Bogaty


5/26/22: Iolanthe: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/27/22: Iolanthe: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)9/25/22: Snegurochka(The snow maiden): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Russian Grand Opera Company)

Devushka-Snegurochka, Snow maidenOlga KasanskayaVesna-Krasna, Spring fairy Emma Mirovitch

Lel’ Valja ValentinovaCar’ Berendej, czar Vladimir Daniloff

Koupava Sophia OsipovaMizguir Vladimir Radeeff

Bobylikha Varvara LosievaBobyl’-Bakula Piotr Kosloff

Bermiate David Tulchinoff1-j Birjuch, herald Avram Ardatoff2-j Birjuch, herald Efim Vitis

Chuchelo Gabriel Hrjanovskymaestro direttore Eugene Fuerst

9/26/22: Boris Godunov: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Russian Grand Opera Company)

Boris Godunov Jakob LukinFeodor Zinaida IvanovaXenia Ina Svetlova

Xenia’s nurse Natalia PopovaPrince Vassili Ivanovich ShuiskyVladimir Svetloff

Pimen Gabriel HrjanovskyGrigory Otrepiev / Dimitri Nikolai Buzanowsky

Marina Mnishek Ina BourskayaRangoni Leonid GorlenkoVarlaam David TulchinoffMissail Piotr Kosloff

Hostess of the inn Emma Mirovitchmaestro direttore Michael Feveisky

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9/27/22: Roussalka(Alexander Dargomyzhsky:The mermaid): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Russian Grand OperaCompany)

The miller Nicholas KarlashNatasha Nina Gusieva

The prince Nikolai BuzanowskyThe princess Valja Valentinova

Olga Ina SvetlovaThe marriage broker Gabriel Hrjanovsky

The servant Avram Ardatoffmaestro direttore Victor Vasilieff

9/28/22: Pikovaja dama(Pique dame): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Russian Grand Opera Company): stage managerEugene Shastan

Prince Yeletsky Vladimir RadeeffNarumoff Anatole Grosheff

Lisa Marie MashirHermann Vladimir Daniloff

The governess Varvara LosievaCount Tomsky Max PantaleeffTchekalinsky Efim VitisThe countess Emma Mirovitch

Pauline Valja ValentinovaMasha Ina Svetlova

Tchaplitsky Piotr KosloffPriliapa Olga Kasanskaya


9/29/22: Notch Lubvi (Valentinova, A night of love) (a pastiche from operas by Gounod, Planquette, Suppé, Bizet,Meyerbeer, and others): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Russian Grand Opera Company): stagemanager Eugene Shastan

Smiatka Piotr KosloffMaria Barbara Loseva (aka: Varvara Losieva)

Lisa Nina GusievaSmorjkoff Efim VitisKarolina Sophia Osipova

Sergei Max PantaleeffGenadi Nikolai BuzanowskyAndrei Leonid Gorlenko

A police captain Nicholas KarlashA maid Zina Ivanova

maestro direttore Victor Vasilieff

9/30/22: La juive (Jacques Fromental Halévy): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Russian Grand Opera Company),matinée: stage manager Eugene Shastan

La princesse Eudoxie Olga KasanskayaRachel Nina Gusieva

Le juif Éléazar Nikolai BuzanowskyLe cardinal de Brogni David Tulchinoff

Léopold Vladimir SvetloffRuggiero Gabriel Hrjanovsky

Albert Avram Ardatoffmaestro direttore Eugene Fuerst

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9/30/22: Tsarskaya nevesta(The tsar’s bride): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Russian Grand Opera Company): stagemanager Eugene Shastan; ballet master Veroni Vestoff

Gryaznoy Jakob LukinLyubasha Ina Bourskaya

Marfa Marie MashirMalyuta-Skuratov Avram Ardatoff

Bomelius Piotr KosloffLykov Nikolai Buzanowsky

Ivan Sobakin Nicholas KarlashDunyasha Emma Mirovitch

Domna Saburova Zinaida Ivanovamaestro direttore Michael Feveisky

première dancer Arthur Retlow

10/16/22: The beggar’s opera(John Gay): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players): produced by theValley Forge Historical Society; with extensive music changes by Frederick Austin

Peachum Arthur WynnLockit Charles Magrath

The beggar Charles MagrathMacHeath Joseph Farrington

Filch Alfred HeatherDrawer Halley Mostyn

Mrs. Peachum Lena MaitlandPolly Peachum Dorianne Brown

Lucy Lockit Celia TurrillDiana Trapes Julie Meo

Jenny Diver Nonny Lock

Highwaymen

M. Ahearn

M. St. John[Arthur V.] WardM. Cummings

Women of the town

Marjorie Chard

Elsie WilliamsGladys JohnsonChristie MurrayMarguerite PerdifaGertrude West

maestro direttore Sebastian Unglada

10/17/22: The beggar’s opera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players)10/18/22: The beggar’s opera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players)10/19/22: The beggar’s opera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players)10/20/22: The beggar’s opera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players)10/21/22: The beggar’s opera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players), matinée10/21/22: The beggar’s opera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players)10/23/22: The beggar’s opera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players)10/24/22: The beggar’s opera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players)10/25/22: The beggar’s opera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players)10/26/22: The beggar’s opera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players)10/27/22: The beggar’s opera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players)10/28/22: The beggar’s opera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players), matinée

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10/28/22: The beggar’s opera: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (English Players)11/03/22: Hänsel und Gretel[English]: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society)

Peter Karl NochaGertrud Kathryn JarvisHänsel Aida RileyGretel Jeannette Kerr

Die Knusperhexe Mary A. KeatingSandmännchen Alice FichelisTaumännchen Ethel Porter Brooks


Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic Society)

Canio Paul VolkmannNedda Cora FryeTonio Samuel H. LipschutzBeppe Nevin WampoleSilvio F. Willard Cornman, Jr.


11/11/22: Otello: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Brooklyn Opera Company, Alfredo Salmaggi)

Otello Antonio PaoliJago Augusto Ordognez Vincente Ballester

Cassio Giordano PaltrinieriRoderigo Ildebrando PizzettiLodovico G. BozzanoMontàno Fausto Bozza

Un araldo unknownDesdemona Erminia Ligotti

Emilia Hortense B. Jonesmaestro direttore Antonio dell’Orefice


Il re d’Egitto Natale CerviAmneris Stella de Mette

Aida Marie RappoldRadamès Manuel Salazar

Ramfis Pietro de BiasiAmonasro Mario Valle

Un messaggero Francesco CurciUna sacerdotessa Anita Klinovamaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

prima ballerina Stasia Ledowa

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Il duca di Mantova Gennaro BarraRigoletto Richard Bonelli

Gilda Josephine LuccheseSparafucile Pietro de BiasiMaddalena Stella de Mette

Il conte di Monterone Natale CerviMatteo Borsa Francesco Curci

La contessa di Ceprano Frances MorosiniGiovanna unknown

Il cavaliere Marullo unknownIl conte di Ceprano Antonio Canova

Pa g gio della duchessaAlice Homermaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

11/22/22: Tosca: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Floria Tosca Anna FitziuMario Cavaradossi Manuel Salazar

Il barone Scarpia Mario ValleCesare Angelotti Pietro de Biasi

Il sagrestano Natale CerviSpoletta Francesco Curci

Sciarrone Luigi de CesareUn pastore Anita Klinova

Un carceriere Pietro Canovamaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

11/23/22: Martha: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 1430

Lady Harriet Durham Josephine LuccheseNancy Anita Klinova Stella de Mette

Lord Tristan Mickleford Natale CerviLyonel Romeo Boscacci

Plumkett Mario Valle Giuseppe Interrante

Der Richter zu Richmond Giuseppe Interrante Antonio Canova



Cio-cio-san Tamaki MiuraB. F. Pinkerton Gennaro Barra

Suzuki Anita KlinovaSharpless Mario Valle Richard Bonelli

Goro Pietro de Biasi Francesco Curci

Il principe Yamadori Natale CerviLo zio Bonzo Pietro de Biasi

Il commissario imperiale unknownKate Pinkerton Frances Morosini

L’ufficiale del registro unknownmaestro direttore Aldo Franchetti Carlo Peroni

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11/24/22: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Carmen Dorothy JardonDon José Amador FamadasEscamillo Henri Scott Richard Bonelli

Micaëla Josephine LuccheseFr asquita Frances MorosiniMercédès Anita Klinova

Zuniga Pietro de BiasiMoralès Francesco Curci

Le Dancaïre Natale CerviLe Remendado Francesco Curci



11/25/22: I gioielli della Madonna: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Co.), hour: 1430

Gennaro Romeo BoscacciCarmela Beatrice d’AlessandroMaliella Anna FitziuRafaele Mario Valle

Stella Frances MorosiniConcetta Beatrice DivverTotonno Francesco Curci

Rocco Manuel Perezmaestro direttore Carlo Peroni



Santuzza Stella de Mette Marie Rappold

Lola Anita Klinova Stella de Mette

Turiddu Gennaro BarraAlfio Giuseppe Interrante

Lucia Alice Homermaestro direttore Carlo Peroni


Canio Manuel SalazarNedda Sofia CharleboisTonio Richard BonelliBeppe Francesco CurciSilvio Giuseppe Interrante


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11/27/22: La bohème: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: stagedirector B. A. Altieri

Mimì Anna FitziuRodolfo Manuel Salazar

Marcello Mario ValleSchaunard Giuseppe Interrante

Colline Pietro de Biasi

Natale CerviBenoît

AlcindoroMusetta Sofia Charlebois


Un ufficiale unknownmaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

11/28/22: Mefistofele: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Mefistofele Fyodor ChaliapinFaust Beniamino Gigli

Margherita Frances AldaElena Frances Peralta

Wa gner Giordano PaltrinieriMarta Flora Perini

Pantalis Flora PeriniNerèo Giordano Paltrinieri


11/28/22: Faust: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: stage directorB. A. Altieri

Le docteur Faust Romeo BoscacciMéphistophélès Pietro de Biasi

Marguerite Sofia CharleboisValentin Richard Bonelli

Siébel Anita KlinovaDame Marthe Schwertlein Anita Klinova

Wa gner Luigi de Cesaremaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

11/29/22: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: stagedirector B. A. Altieri

La gioconda Edith de LysLaura Adorno Stella de Mette

Alvise Badoero Pietro de BiasiLa cieca Anita Klinova

Enzo Grimaldo Gennaro BarraBarnaba Mario Valle

Zuàne Natale CerviUn cantore Mario Novelli

Isèpo Francesco CurciUn pilota unknown

Un monaco unknownmaestro direttore Carlo Peroni


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11/30/22: Cavalleria rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 1430:stage director B. A. Altieri

Santuzza Beatrice d’AlessandroLola Anita Klinova

Turiddu Gennaro BarraAlfio Giuseppe Interrante

Lucia Alice Homermaestro direttore Aldo Franchetti Walter Pfeiffer

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Co.): stage director B. A. Altieri

Canio Amador FamadasNedda Sofia CharleboisTonio Richard BonelliBeppe Francesco CurciSilvio Giuseppe Interrante

maestro direttore Aldo Franchetti Carlo Peroni

11/30/22: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 1430:stage director B. A. Altieri

Miss Lucia Josephine LuccheseSir Edgardo di RavenswoodManuel Salazar

Lord Enrico Asthon Mario ValleRaimondo Bidebent Pietro de BiasiLord Arturo Buclaw Francesco Curci

Alisa Anita KlinovaNormanno Arthur Dhossache


12/01/22: Lohengrin (Italian): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015:stage director B. A. Altieri

Heinrich der Vogler Pietro de BiasiLohengrin Romeo Boscacci

Elsa von Brabant Anna FitziuFriedrich von Telramund Mario Valle

Ortrud Eleanora de CisnerosDer Heerrufer des Königs Giuseppe Interrante


12/02/22: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 1430:stage director B. A. Altieri

Cio-cio-san Tamaki MiuraB. F. Pinkerton Gennaro Barra

Suzuki Anita KlinovaSharpless Richard Bonelli

Goro Francesco CurciIl principe Yamadori Natale Cervi

Lo zio Bonzo "Baby Henderson of Philadelphia"Il commissario imperiale unknown

Kate Pinkerton Frances MorosiniL’ufficiale del registro unknown


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12/02/22: Il trovatore: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: stagedirector B. A. Altieri

Il conte di Luna Giuseppe InterranteLeonora Marie RappoldAzucena Beatrice d’AlessandroManrico Amador Famadas

Ferrando Pietro de BiasiInes Anita KlinovaRuiz Francesco Curci


12/05/22: Der Rosenkavalier: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Die Feldmarschallin Florence EastonDer Baron Ochs auf LerchenauPaul Bender

Octavian Maria JeritzaHerr von Faninal Gustav Schützendorf

Sophie Elisabeth RethbergJungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin Grace Anthony

Valzacchi George MeaderAnnina Kathleen Howard

Ein Polizeikommissar Carl SchlegelDer Haushofmeister bei der FeldmarschallinPietro Audisio

Der Haushofmeister bei Faninal Augusto MontiEin Notar William Gustafson

Ein Wirt Rafaelo DíazEin Sänger Rafaelo Díaz

Drei adelige Waisen

Laura Robertson

Grace BradleyHenriette Wakefield

Eine Modistin Muriel TindalEin Tierhändler Raffaele Lipparini

Leopold Giordano PaltrinieriDen Mohammed Virginia Gitchellmaestro direttore Artur Bodanzky

12/12/22: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Cio-Cio-San Florence EastonB. F. Pinkerton Mario Chamlee

Suzuki Flora PeriniSharpless Antonio Scotti

Goro Giordano PaltrinieriIl principe Yamadori Pietro Audisio

Lo zio Yakusidé Paolo QuintinaLo zio Bonzo William Gustafson

Il commissario imperiale Vincenzo ReschiglianKate Pinkerton Grace Anthony


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12/26/22: Loreley(Alfredo Catalani): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Loreley Frances AldaWalter Edward Johnson

Anna di Rehberg Marie SundeliusHerrmann Giuseppe Danise

Rudolfo José Mardonesmaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni



Siegmund Curt TaucherHunding Paul Bender

Wotan Clarence WhitehillSieglinde Elisabeth Rethberg

Brünnhilde Margarete MatzenauerFricka Jeanne Gordon

Gerhilde Charlotte RyanOrtlinde Laura Robertson


Helmwige Mary MellishSiegrune Raymonde Delaunois

Grimgerde Grace BradleyRoßweiße Myrtle Schaaf


1/21/23: Il segreto di Susanna: Philadelphia, Little Theatre: Plays and Players Orchestra

La contessa SusannaMrs. William Baker WhelenIl conte Gil Lewis James Howell

Sante Joseph Craig Foxmaestro direttore Nina Prettyman Howell

1/23/23: Roméo et Juliette: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Roméo Beniamino GigliJuliette Lucrezia Bori

Frère Laurent Léon RothierStéphano Raymonde DelaunoisMercutio Raymonde DelaunoisBenvolio Giordano PaltrinieriGertrude Henriette Wakefield

Le comte Capulet Adamo DidurTybalt Rafaelo Díaz

Le comte Pâris Millo PiccoGrégorio Paolo Ananian

Le duc de Vérone William Gustafsonmaestro direttore Louis Hasselmans

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1/30/23: The bride elect(John Philip Sousa): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour:2015: assistant music director Wassili Leps; stage director Karl T. F. Schroeder; ballet mistress EthelQuirk Phillips; costumes Charles Saake, Jr.

Papagallo XIII Reinhold SchmidtGuido Raymond Nelson

Fr escobaldi Theodore Bacon BayerGambo Otto E. Boss

Buscato Albert B. WellsPietro Frank G. Ritter

Sardinia Arthur V. WardLa pastorella Ethel Porter Brooks

Bianca Eva Allen RitterMinutezza Jeannette E. Kerr

Margherita E. Christine ConnelleyRea Estielena C. Truax

Zedena Beatrice R. BrewerRosamunda Effie R. McCain

Curate Philip E. Jochemmaestro direttore John Philip Sousa

People who live in glass houses(ballet: music unknown): The Ethel Quirk Phillips Dancers; assistant conductorCharles E. Straub; wardrobe mistress Anna M. Upp; librarian Amy Marion Young; costumes JosephC. Fischer; wigs A. M. Buch & Co.

Champagne: Anna May Gregory, Helene France, Anna Schoeing, Sara SchaeferRose Cohen, Lillian Stern, Dolores Kronberger, Rosetta Stern

A glass of champagneKarline France

Rhine Wines: Ethel Tauber, Marguerite Smith, Jean Natier, Lois AtkinsonPsyche dance: Margaret Cook, Phyllis Henne, May Whitlock, Doris Bradley

White Rock Margaret Cook

Whiskies:Scotch John Daly

Irish Edwin GruganBourbon and Rye unknown Hill, unknown Petrilla

Convention of the wines, water and whiskies: Ensemble

1/31/23: Il segreto di Susanna: Philadelphia, Little Theater: Plays and Players Orchestra


Sante Joseph Craig Foxmaestro direttore Nina Prettyman Howell

The opera was preceeded by a program by the Plays and Players Orchestra which included Beethoven’sPrometheus, the "prize song" fromDie Meistersinger, and Grieg’sPeer GyntSuite No. 1.

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2/05/23: Die Meistersinger: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Deutsche Opernhaus, Berlin), hour: 1900

Hans Sachs Friedrich SchorrVeit Pogner Ernst Lehmann Alexander Kipnis

Sixtus BeckmesserDesider ZadorWalter von Stolzing Robert Hutt

David Paul SchwarzEva Marcella Röseler

Magdalene Jessyka Koettrikmaestro direttore Leo Blechmaestro del coro Hans Leschke

2/06/23: Lohengrin(broadcast): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Deutsche Opernhaus, Berlin), hour: 1930

Heinrich der Vogler Alexander KipnisLohengrin Adolf Lussmann Robert Hutt

Elsa von Brabant Meta SeinemeyerFriedrich von Telramund Friedrich Plaschke Theodor Latterman

Ortrud Elsa AlsenDer Heerrufer des Königs Benno Ziegler

Vier Edelknaben

Friedel Schwarz

Hede MexElfriede ThonEmma Bassth

maestro direttore Eduard Mörike

2/06/23: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Il duca di Mantova Mario ChamleeRigoletto Giuseppe Danise

Gilda Amelita Galli-CurciSparafucile José MardonesMaddalena Flora Perini

Giovanna Grace AnthonyIl conte di Monterone Paolo Ananian

Il cavaliere Marullo Millo PiccoMatteo Borsa Angelo Badà

Il conte di Ceprano Vincenzo ReschiglianLa contessa di Ceprano Grace Anthony

Pa g gio della duchessaVirginia Grassimaestro direttore Giuseppe Bamboschek

2/08/23: Tristan und Isolde: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Deutsche Opernhaus, Berlin), hour: 1345

Isolde Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer Elsa Alsen

Tristan Jacques UrlusBrangäne Ottilie Metzger-LattermanKurwenal Friedrich Plaschke

König Marke Alexander Kipnismaestro direttore Eduard Mörike

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2/08/23: Der fliegende Holländer: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Deutsche Opernhaus, Berlin), hour: 1930

Daland Ernst LehmannSenta Elsa AlsenErik Robert Hutt

Mary Emma BassthDer Holländer Theodor Latterman

maestro direttore Eugen Gottlieb

2/09/23: Tannhäuser(broadcast): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Deutsche Opernhaus, Berlin), hour: 1930

Hermann Alexander KipnisTannhäuser Adolf Lussmann

Wolfram von EschenbachFriedrich SchorrWalter von der Vogelweide Heinz Bollmann

Biterolf Desider ZadorHeinrich der Schreiber Paul Schwarz

Reinmar von Zweter Peter HegarElisabeth Meta Seinemeyer

Venus Elsa AlsenEin Hirtenknabe Editha Fleischermaestro direttore Leo Blech

˜ 2/10/23: Die Meistersinger: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Deutsche Opernhaus, Berlin), hour: 1330˜ 2/10/23: Die Fledermaus: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Deutsche Opernhaus, Berlin), hour: 2015

2/20/23: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Thaïs Maria JeritzaAthanaël Clarence Whitehill

Nicias Armand TokatyanPalémon Paolo AnanianCrobyle Charlotte RyanMyrtale Grace AnthonyAlbine Marion Telva

Le serviteur de Nicias Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Louis Hasselmans



Mimì Thalia SabanieevaRodolfo Giovanni Martinelli

Marcello Antonio ScottiSchaunard Louis d’Angelo

Colline José Mardones


AlcindoroMusetta Marie Sundelius



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3/06/23: Mona Lisa(Max von Schillings), German: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, NewYork), hour: 2000

Fr ancesco del Giocondo, uno stranieroMichael BohnenMona Fiordalisa Barbara Kemp

Giovanni de’Salviati, un conversoCurt TaucherPietro Tumoni Carl Schlegel

Arrigo Oldofredi George MeaderAlessio Beneventi Max Bloch

Sandro da Luzzano William GustafsonMasolino Pedruzzi Louis d’Angelo

Ginevra di Alta Rocca Frances PeraltaDianora Ellen DalossyPiccarda Marion Telva


3/13/23: Carmen: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Carmen Ina BourskayaDon José Orville HarroldEscamillo Giuseppe de Luca

Micaëla Nina MorganaFr asquita Charlotte RyanMercédès Henriette Wakefield

Zuniga Italo PicchiMoralès Millo Picco

Le Dancaïre Louis d’AngeloLe Remendado George Meader

maestro direttore Louis Hasselmans


3/15/23: Orfeo ed Euridice: Philadelphia, Bellevue-Stratford, Ballroom (Philadelphia Music Club): Women’s SymphonyOrchestra; production of Edith Pusey; ballet mistress Caroline Littlefield

Orfeo Veronica SweigartEuridice Cora Erye

Amor Dorothy Foxmaestro direttore J. W. F. Leman

3/20/23: Aida: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Il re d’Egitto Edmund BurkeAmneris Julia Claussen

Aida Barbara KempRadamès Morgan Kingston

Ramfis José MardonesAmonasro Michael Bohnen

Un messaggero Pietro AudisioUna sacerdotessa Laura Robertsonmaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

Florence Rudolph

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3/27/23: Snegurochka(Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, The snow maiden), French: Philadelphia, Academy of Music(Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), matinée: stage director Samuel Thewman; set designBoris Anisfeld; choreography Rosina Galli

Devushka-Snegurochka, snow maidenThalia SabanieevaVesna-Krasna, spring fairy Marion Telva

Ded Moroz, grandfather frost William GustafsonLel’ Raymonde Delaunois

Car’ Berendej, czar Orville HarroldKoupava Grace AnthonyMizguir Edmund Burke

Leshij, faun Giordano PaltrinieriMaslenica George MeaderBobylikha Kathleen Howard

Bobyl’-Bakula Angelo BadàBermiyta Millo Picco

1-j Birjuch, herald Pietro Audisio2-j Birjuch, herald Vincenzo Reschiglian


3/27/23: Snegurochka(French): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Devushka-Snegurochka, snow maidenLucrezia BoriVesna-Krasna, spring fairy Marion Telva

Ded Moroz, grandfather frost Léon RothierLel’ Ina Bourskaya

Car’ Berendej, czar Orville HarroldKoupava Ellen DalossyMizguir Gustav Schützendorf

Leshij, faun Giordano PaltrinieriMaslenitza, lord carnival George Meader

Bobylikha Kathleen HowardBobyl’-Bakula Angelo Badà

Bermiyta Louis d’Angelo1-j Birjuch, herald Pietro Audisio2-j Birjuch, herald Vincenzo Reschiglian



Violetta Valéry Lucrezia BoriAlfredo Germont Giacomo Lauri-VolpiGiorgio Germont Giuseppe de Luca

Flora Bervoix Grace AnthonyIl barone Douphol Millo Picco

Il dottor Grenvil Italo PicchiAnnina Henriette Wakefield

Gastone di Letorières Giordano PaltrinieriIl marchese d’Obigny Louis d’Angelo


Giuseppe BonfiglioRosina Galli

Florence Rudolph

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4/10/23: Lohengrin: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1930

Heinrich der Vogler Michael BohnenLohengrin Curt Taucher

Elsa von Brabant Delia ReinhardtFriedrich von Telramund Clarence Whitehill

Ortrud Julia ClaussenDer Heerrufer des Königs Gustav Schützendorf

Vier Edelknaben

Cecil Arden

Grace BradleyLaura RobertsonCharlotte Ryan


4/17/23: L’africaine (Italian): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Sélika Rosa PonselleVasco da Gama Beniamino Gigli

Inès Marie SundeliusNélusko Giuseppe Danise

Don Pédro Adamo DidurDon Diégo Paolo AnanianDon Alvar Giordano Paltrinieri

Le Grand Inquisiteur Léon RothierLe Grand-Prêtre de Brama Léon Rothier

Anna Marion TelvaUsher Vincenzo Reschiglian

Officer Pietro Audisiomaestro direttore Artur Bodanzky

4/20/23: Das Rheingold: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Deutsche Opernhaus, Berlin), hour: 2015

Wotan Theodor Latterman Friedrich Schorr

Donner Benno ZieglerFr oh Johannes ScheurichLoge Paul Schwarz

Alberich Desider ZadorMime Harry SteierFasolt Alexander KipnisFafner Erik SchubertFricka Emma BassthFr eia Marcella RöselerErda Ottilie Metzger

Wo glinde May SchneiderWellgunde Meta SeinemeyerFloßhilde Ottilie Metzger


4/21/23: Hänsel und Gretel: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Deutsche Opernhaus, Berlin), hour: 1430

Peter Benno DieglerGertrud Ottilie MetzgerHänsel Emma BassthGretel Lottie Appel

Die Knusperhexe Harry Steiermaestro direttore Ernesto Knoch

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4/21/23: Die Walküre: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Deutsche Opernhaus, Berlin), hour: 1930

Siegmund Heinrich KnoteWotan Friedrich Schorr

Sieglinde Marcella RöselerBrünnhilde Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer


4/23/23: Siegfried: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Deutsche Opernhaus, Berlin), hour: 1930

Siegfried Heinrich KnoteMime Harry Steier

Der Wanderer Friedrich SchorrAlberich Desider Zador

Fafner Erik SchubertErda Ottilie Metzger

Brünnhilde Marie Lorentz-Hoellischer Elsa Alsen

Stimme des WaldvogelsMay Schneidermaestro direttore Ernesto Knoch

4/24/23: Götterdämmerung: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Deutsche Opernhaus, Berlin), hour: 1900

Siegfried Heinrich KnoteGunther Benno Ziegler

Hagen Alexander KipnisAlberich Desider Zador

Brünnhilde Marie Lorentz-HoellischerGutrune Else Wuehler

Waltraute Ottilie MetzgerErste Norn Ottilie Metzger

Zweite Norn Emma BassthDritte Norn Marcella Röseler

Wo glinde May ScheiderWellgunde Meta SeinemeyerFloßhilde Emma Bassth


5/10/23: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo y Company), hour: 2015: stage directorJoseph Craig Fox; accompanist Ruth Barber

Richard, a pirate chief Robert V. BolgerSamuel, his lieutenant James McFadden Carpenter, Jr.

Fr ederic, a pirate apprentice Gerald EtchellsMajor-General Stanley Nelson Eddy

Edward, a sergent of police Edward C. JacobyMabel Elizabeth Harrison HaslamEdith Mrs. George P. MillingtonKate Sara B. Bailey

Isabel Frances K. WisterRuth Maybelle Beretta Marston Mrs. Lloyd Kinney


5/11/23: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany), hour: 20155/12/23: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany), hour: 2015

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5/11/23: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera house (La Savoia Grand Opera Company, New York), hour: 2015

Il duca di Mantova Manuel SalazarRigoletto Antonio O. Scarduzio

Gilda Pina GaravelliSparafucile Pompilio MalatestaMaddalena Dorothea Pilzer

Il conte di Monterone Luigi dalle MolleLa contessa di Ceprano Alice Brown

maestro direttore Gabriele Simeoni

5/17/23: Aida: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia Operatic Society), hour: 2000: stage director CarlSchroeder; ballet director Ethel Quirk Phillips

Il re d’Egitto J. Burnett HollandAmneris Claire Eugenia Smith

Aida Marie WilkinsRadamès George Rothermel

Ramfis Andrew KnoxAmonasro Nelson Eddy

Un messaggero Howard HaugUna sacerdotessa Eleanor Emeline Starkeymaestro direttore Wassili Leps

Ethel Quirk Phillips, Margaret Cook

5/24/23: Il segreto di Susanna: Philadelphia, Bellevue-Stratford, ballroom: with orchestra


Sante Joseph Craig Foxmaestro direttore unknown

6/02/23: The Pirates of Penzance: Kennett Square, Longwood Gardens (The Savo yCompany)10/22/23: La traviata: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company / Fortune Gallo): stage

director B. A. Altieri; manager of orchestra Francesco Liazza; librarian Silvio Palma; head carpenterCharles Sturbitts; master of properties H. Nicolai; chief electrician William Fink; wardrobe mistressMme.Loucks; costumes by Ottone Pernpruner; scenery by Carmine Vitolo; wigs by Senz & George

Violetta Valéry Josephine LuccheseAlfredo Germont Adamo ChiappiniGiorgio Germont Mario Basiola

Flora Bervoix Clara LangAnnina Alice Homer

Antonio CettiNatale Cervi


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10/23/23: Aida: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company)


Aida Anne RoselleRadamès Manuel Salazar

Ramfis Pietro de BiasiAmonasro Mario Basiola

Un messaggero Francesco CurciUna sacerdotessa Philine Falcomaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

Mlle. NemeroffAndreas Pavley

Serge Oukrainsky

10/24/23: Hänsel und Gretel: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), matinée

Peter Giuseppe InterranteGertrud Stella de MetteHänsel Anita KlinovaGretel May Korb

role unknown Ada Paggimaestro direttore Clarence C. Nice

10/24/23: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company)

Miss Lucia Josephine LuccheseSir Edgardo di RavenswoodManuel Salazar

Lord Enrico Asthon Mario ValleRaimondo Bidebent Pietro de BiasiLord Arturo Buclaw Antonio Canova

Alisa Clara LangNormanno Francesco Curci


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10/25/23: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company)

Cio-cio-san Haru OnukiB. F. Pinkerton Gaetano Tommasini

Suzuki Anita Klinova Ada Paggi

Sharpless Mario ValleGoro Francesco Curci

Il principe Yamadori Natale CerviLo zio Bonzo Pietro de Biasi

Il commissario imperiale unknownKate Pinkerton Philine Falco

L’ufficiale del registro unknownmaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

Legend of the sun(André Messager): choreography Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky; scenery and costumesHerman Rossi

The coolie Serge OukrainskyThe geisha Mlle. Milar

The sun Mlle. DagmaraThe butterflies Mlles. Elisius, Nemeroff, Bennett, Romany

The spinners Mlles. Shermont, Campana, Samuels, Chapman, Elleck, MilliganThe goddesses Mlles. Blumenthal, Bond, Lindlahr, Eggeman

The dragon M. EasterThe high priest M. Caton

Two priests M. Gilmore

M. Petri

Legend of the sunwas announced, but it possible that the ballet fromSamson et Dalila(same cast as 11/03/23)was performed instead.

10/26/23: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Carmen Alice GentleDon José Manuel SalazarEscamillo Giuseppe Interrante

Micaëla Elena EhlersFr asquita Philine FalcoMercédès Alice Homer

Zuniga Pietro de BiasiMoralès Luigi de Cesare

Le Dancaïre Francesco CurciLe Remendado Natale Cervi


Incidental dances: Pavley - Oukrainsky Ballet RusseAct II: Serge Oukrainsky,Mlles. Elisius, Nemeroff, Campana, Romany

Act IV: Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky,Mlle. Shermont, corps de ballet

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Heinrich der Vogler Henri ScottLohengrin Manuel Salazar Giuseppe Agostini

Elsa von Brabant Bianca Saroya Edith de Lys

Friedrich von Telramund Mario ValleOrtrud Stella de Mette

Der Heerrufer des Königs Joseph InterranteVier brabantische Edlen unknown

Vier Edelknaben unknownmaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

10/27/23: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il conte d’Almaviva Adamo ChiappiniIl dottore Bartolo Natale Cervi

Rosina Josephine LuccheseFigaro Mario Basiola

Don Basilio Pietro de BiasiFiorello Francesco Curci

Berta Philine FalcoUn ufficiale unknown

Ambrogio unknownmaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

Lesson scene "Carnival of Venice"

Ballet divertissements: (Pavley - Ourainsky Ballet): dances arranged by Andreas Pavley, Serge OukrainskyBeethoven:Dutch dance: Mlles. Romany, Bennett, Chapman, Elleck

MM. Caton, Easter, Gilmore, Petri

Beethoven:A crucifixion: Serge Oukrainsky

Beethoven:Danse de printemps: Mlles. Shermont, Samuels, Romany, Bennett

Schubert:A bee: Mlle. Milar

Ganne:Victory dance: Andreas Pavley

Kreisler:L’ephemere: Mlle. Dagmara

Ganne:Hymn of Joy: Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky, corps de ballet

10/29/23: Faust: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company / Pavley - Oukrainsky Ballet),hour: 2015

Le docteur Faust Adamo ChiappiniMéphistophélès Henri Scott

Marguerite Anne RoselleValentin Mario Valle

Siébel Anita KlinovaDame Marthe Schwertlein Philine Falco

Wa gner Luigi de Cesaremaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

Incidental dances: Serge Oukrainsky,Mlle. Shermont, corps de ballet

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10/30/23: La forza del destino: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il marchese di Calatrava Natale CerviLeonora di Vargas Bianca Saroya

Don Carlo di Vargas Mario BasiolaDon Alvaro Manuel SalazarPreziosilla Stella de Mette

Padre Guardiano Pietro de BiasiFr a Melitone Natale Cervi

Curra Philine FalcoUn alcade unknown

Mastro Trabuco Francesco CurciUn chirurgo unknown


Incidental dances: Pavley - Oukrainsky Ballet

10/31/23: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), matinée

Hoffmann Adamo ChiappiniNicklausse Anita Klinova

Olympia Josephine LuccheseAntonia Josephine Lucchese

Giulietta Stella de MetteCoppélius Giuseppe Interrante

Dr. Miracle Henri ScottDapertutto Giuseppe InterranteCochenille Francesco Curci

Fr antz Francesco CurciLa mère d’Antonia Frances Morosini

Spalanzani Natale CerviSchlémil Ludovic Burgstaller

Nathanaël Ada PaggiLuther Luigi de Cesare

Crespel Natale Cervimaestro direttore Carlo Peroni



Santuzza Bianca SaroyaLola Anita Klinova

Turiddu Manuel SalazarAlfio Giuseppe Interrante

Lucia Beatrice Altierimaestro direttore Carlo Peroni


Canio Gaetano TommasiniNedda Anne RoselleTonio Mario BasiolaBeppe Francesco CurciSilvio Giuseppe Interrante


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11/01/23: La bohème: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), matinée

Mimì Anne RoselleRodolfo Demetrio Onofrei


Colline Pietro de Biasi

Natale CerviBenoît

AlcindoroMusetta Elena Ehlers


Un ufficiale unknownmaestro direttore Carlo Peroni

A dance poem: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Pavley - Oukrainsky Ballet)Grossman:Czardas: Mlles. Elisius, Nemeroff, Campana, Romany, Samuels

Bennett, Chapman, Elleck, Milligan, Blumenthal, Lindlahr, MadsonMM. Caton, Easter, Gilmore, Petri

Godard:Valse classique: Mlle. Milar

Kreisler:Pastorale: Andreas Pavley,Mlle. Dagmara

Lecocq:A Russian peasant girl and her doll:The girl Mlle. CampanaThe doll Mlle. Samuels

Rubinstein:Spanish dance: Mlle. Nemeroff

Moussorgsky:Persian dance: Serge Oukrainsky

Rubinstein:Torc h dance: Andreas Pavley, Serge OukrainskyMlles. Dagmara, Elisius, Milar, Nemeroff, Shermont

Campana, Romany, Samuels, Bennett, Chapman


Il duca di Mantova Adamo ChiappiniRigoletto Mario Basiola

Gilda Josephine LuccheseSparafucile Pietro de BiasiMaddalena Stella de Mette


La contessa di Ceprano Frances MorosiniGiovanna unknown

Il cavaliere Marullo unknownIl conte di Ceprano unknown

Usciere di corte unknownPa g gio della duchessaPhiline Falco



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11/03/23: Madama Butterfly: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 1415:10/25/23 except:

Suzuki Anita KlinovaKate Pinkerton Frances Morosini

Dolore Baby Anderson

Samson et Dalila(ballet): arranged by Messrs. Pavley, Oukrainsky; costumes Miranova; scenery Overbeck

The idol Serge OukrainskyAn oriental prince Andreas Pavley

Two dancers Mlles. Milar, ShermontSilver priestesses Mlles. Dagmara, Elisius, NemeroffGold priestesses Mlles. Campana, Romany, Samuels, Bennett, Chapman

Mlles. Elleck, Milligan, Blumenthal, Bond, Lindlahr, MadsonIncense carriers MM. Caton, Easter, Gilmore, Petri



Il conte di Luna Giuseppe InterranteLeonora Marie RappoldAzucena Stella de MetteManrico Manuel Salazar

Ferrando Pietro de BiasiInes Philine FalcoRuiz Francesco Curci



11/13/23: Thaïs: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Thaïs Maria JeritzaAthanaël Clarence Whitehill

Nicias Armand TokatyanPalémon Paolo AnanianCrobyle Nannette GuilfordMyrtale Minnie EgenerAlbine Marion Telva

Le serviteur de Nicias Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Louis Hasselmans

Giuseppe BonfiglioFlorence Rudolph

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11/27/23: L’oracolo: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Uin-Scî Adamo DidurCim-Fen Antonio ScottiHu-Tsin Louis d’AngeloAh-Joe Queena Mario Ellen Dalossy

L’indovino Pietro AudisioUin-San-Lui Mario Chamlee

Hua-Qui Marion TelvaHu-Cî Ada Quintina


L’amico Fritz: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Fritz Kobus Miguel FletaSuzel Lucrezia Bori

Beppe Merle AlcockDavid Giuseppe Danise

Federico Giordano PaltrinieriHanezò Pompilio Malatesta

Caterina Grace Anthonymaestro direttore Roberto Moranzoni

12/04/23: Mefistofele: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Mefistofele Fyodor ChaliapinFaust Beniamino Gigli

Margherita Frances AldaElena Frances Peralta

Wa gner Angelo BadàMarta Kathleen Howard

Pantalis Flora PeriniNerèo Angelo Badà


12/11/23: Die Meistersinger: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1915

Hans Sachs Clarence WhitehillVeit Pogner Léon Rothier

Kunz Vogelgesang Max BlochKonrad Nachtigall Louis d’AngeloSixtus BeckmesserGustav Schützendorf

Fritz Kothner Carl SchlegelBalthasar Zorn Angelo Badà

Ulrich Eißlinger Giordano PaltrinieriAugustin Moser Pietro AudisioHermann Ortel Paolo AnanianHans Schwarz William Gustafson

Hans Foltz James WolfeWalter von Stolzing Rudolf Laubenthal

David George MeaderEva Elisabeth Rethberg

Magdalene Marion TelvaEin Nachtwächter Arnold Gabormaestro direttore Artur Bodanzky

373

12/18/23: Fedora: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

La principessa Fedora RomazovMaria JeritzaIl conte Loris Ipanov Giovanni Martinelli

La contessa Olga SukarevQueena MarioIl conte Giovanni de Siriex Antonio Scotti

Dimitri Ellen DalossyDesirè Giordano Paltrinieri

Il barone Rouvel Angelo BadàCirillo Italo PicchiBorov Millo Picco

Gretch Louis d’AngeloLorek Paolo Ananian

Sergio Sante MandelliUn piccolo savoiardo Merle Alcock

Boleslao Lazinski Georges Sébastianmaestro direttore Gennaro Papi

19241/08/24: Lohengrin: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 1930: stage

director Samuel Thewman; set design Joseph Urban

Heinrich der Vogler Paul BenderLohengrin Rudolf Laubenthal

Elsa von Brabant Delia ReinhardtFriedrich von Telramund Clarence Whitehill

Ortrud Margarete MatzenauerDer Heerrufer des Königs Lawrence Tibbett

Vier Edelknaben

Charlotte Ryan

Laura RobertsonHenriette WakefieldCecil Arden


1/22/24: L’africaine (Italian): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000:stage director Samuel Thewman; set design Gretel Urban; costume design Gretel Urban;choreography August Berger

Sélika Rosa PonselleVasco da Gama Beniamino Gigli

Inès Queena MarioNélusko Giuseppe Danise

Don Pédro James WolfeDon Diégo Louis d’AngeloDon Alvar Angelo Badà

Le Grand Inquisiteur Léon RothierLe Grand-Prêtre de Brama Léon Rothier

Anna Marion TelvaUsher Vincenzo Reschiglian

Officer Pietro Audisiomaestro direttore Artur Bodanzky

374

2/05/24: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Lord Enrico Asthon Giuseppe de LucaMiss Lucia Amelita Galli-Curci

Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood Orville Harrold Mario Chamlee

Lord Arturo Buclaw Angelo BadàRaimondo Bidebent José Mardones

Alisa Grace AnthonyNormanno Pietro Audisio

maestro direttore Giuseppe Bamboschek

2/19/24: Martha (Italian): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Lord Tristan Mickleford Frances AldaLyonel Beniamino GigliNancy Kathleen Howard

Plunkett Giuseppe de LucaLord Tristan Mickleford Pompilio Malatesta

Der Richter zu Richmond Louis d’AngeloMagd Giuseppe de Luca

Diener der Lady Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Gennaro Papi


Mimì Lucrezia BoriRodolfo Mario Chamlee


Colline Adamo DidurBenoît Paolo Ananian

Alcindoro Pompilio MalatestaMusetta Nannette Guilford

Parpignol Sante MandelliSergente dei doganieri Vincenzo Reschiglian


375

3/04/24: La habanera(Raoul Laparra): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Pilar Raymonde DelaunoisPedro Armand Tokatyan

Ramón Giuseppe DaniseFather Léon Rothier

Comrade Giordano PaltrinieriComrade Pietro AudisioComrade Arnold GaborComrade William Gustafson

Girl Phradie WellsMiddle-aged Man Vincenzo Reschiglian

Servant James WolfeBlind Man Paolo AnanianBlind Man Angelo BadàBlind Man Louis d’Angelo

Boy Louise HunterBridegroom Pietro Audisio

Bride Minnie Egenermaestro direttore Louis Hasselmans

Zolotoy Pyetushok(Le Coq d’Or), French: Philadelphia (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York)

Cockerel Nannette Guilford

Queen of Shemakha Rosina Galli

Thalia Sabanieeva (dancer)

King Dodon Adamo Didur

Alexis Kosloff (dancer)

Amelfa Kathleen Howard Merle Alcock

Florence Rudolph (dancer)

The astrologer Rafaelo Díaz

Giuseppe Bonfiglio (dancer)

Voevoda Polkan Louis d’Angelo

Ottokar Bartik (dancer)

Prince Gvidon Pietro Audisio

Isador Swee (dancer)

Knight Vincenzo Reschiglian

Domenico da Re (dancer)maestro direttore Giuseppe Bamboschek

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Siegmund Curt TaucherHunding William Gustafson

Wotan Friedrich SchorrSieglinde Elisabeth Rethberg

Brünnhilde Karin BranzellFricka Marion Telva Jeanne Gordon

Gerhilde Phradie WellsOrtlinde Laura Robertson


Helmwige Mary MellishSiegrune Grace Anthony

Grimgerde Marion TelvaRoßweiße Flora Perini


3/12/24: Stradella (Friedrich von Flotow) English: Philadelphia, Bellevue Stratford Ball Room (Philadelphia OperaticSociety): members of the Philadelphia Orchestra; stage director unknown; ballet mistress KatharineReese; costumes Charles Saake, Jr.

Leonora Hilda ReiterStradella Herman Gatter

Bassi Andrew KnoxBarbarino Charles Kline

Malvolio Edwin Rorkemaestro direttore Hedda van den Beemt

3/18/24: Le roi de Lahore(Massenet): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Co., New York), hour: 2000

Alim Giacomo Lauri-VolpiSitâ Delia Reinhardt

Scindia Giuseppe de LucaIndra José Mardones

Timour Léon RothierKaled Raymonde Delaunois


Rosina GalliFlorence RudolphRita de Leporte

Florence McNallyJessie York

Lilyan OgdenJessie Rogge

Florence GloverRuth ViemeisterDorothy WagnerFrances Weller

Leonora NickersonMarion KleboraYvonne BaileyMarie Anderson

Giuseppe Bonfiglio

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3/25/24: Guillaume Tell(Italian): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Guillaume Tell Giuseppe DaniseArnold Melcthal Giovanni Martinelli

Walter Furst José MardonesMelcthal Italo Picchi

Jemmy Grace AnthonyGesler Adamo Didur

Rodolphe Angelo BadàRuodi, pêcheur Max Bloch

Leuthold Millo PiccoMathilde Frances PeraltaHedwige Flora Perini


Muriel HallidayFlorence McNally

Jessie RoggeJessie York


Violetta Valéry Lucrezia BoriAlfredo Germont Giacomo Lauri-VolpiGiorgio Germont Giuseppe Danise

Flora Bervoix Grace AnthonyIl barone Douphol Millo Picco

Il dottor Grenvil Italo PicchiAnnina Henriette Wakefield

Gastone di Letorières Giordano PaltrinieriIl marchese d’Obigny Louis d’Angelo



Giuseppe Bonfiglio

4/08/24: Der Freischütz: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Ottokar Gustav SchützendorfKuno Carl Schlegel

Agathe Delia ReinhardtÄnnchen Thalia Sabanieeva Queena Mario

Kaspar Michael BohnenMax Curt Taucher

Kilian Arnold GaborSamiel Gustav Schützendorf

Ein Eremit Léon Rothier

Brautjüngfern

Louise Hunter

Laura RobertsonCharlotte Ryan


Giuseppe BonfiglioFlorence Rudolph

378

4/15/24: Boris Godunov(Italian): Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Boris Godunov Fyodor ChaliapinFeodor Raymonde DelaunoisXenia Ellen Dalossy

Xenia’s nurse Flora PeriniPrince Vassili Ivanovich ShuiskyAngelo Badà

Andrei Shchelkalov Lawrence TibbettPimen José Mardones

Grigory Otrepiev / Dimitri Rafaelo DíazMarina Mnishek Marion Telva

Varlaam Paolo AnanianMissail Pietro Audisio

Hostess of the inn Henriette WakefieldThe simpleton Giordano Paltrinieri

Nikitch Louis d’AngeloLavitsky Millo Picco

Chernikovsky Vincenzo ReschiglianBoyer in attendance unknown


5/05/24: Don Pasquale: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (The Savo y Grand Opera Company, of New York):incidental ballet Savo y Grand Opera Co. Ballet (second act "Minute" by L. Boccherini, third act"Tarantella" by Rossini)

Don Pasquale Luigi TrucciErnesto Umberto Sacchetti

Dottor Malatesta Enzo SerafiniNorina Emilia Vergeri

Un notaio Fausto BozzaUn maggiordomo Alfredo Santinimaestro direttore Gabriele Simeoni

première danseuse Anna Smith

379

5/22/24: The gondoliers: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany): stage director J. Barry Colahan, III;accompanist Ruth Barber

The duke of Plaza-Toro Charles Francis WardLuiz Walter Antrim

Don Alhambra del Bolero Charles J. ShuttleworthMarco Palmieri Gerald Etchells

Giuseppe Palmieri Robert V. BolgerAntonio Craig Heberton, II

Fr ancesco J. Bowman Weaver, Jr.Giorgio Edward C. Jacoby

The duchess of Plaza-ToroSara B. BaileyCasilda Jennie Kneedler Johnson

Gianetta Marie C. ZaraTessa Mary Falck

Fiametta Ellen Adair OrtonVittoria Mrs. Carl RauterbergGiulia Betty Boyd

Inez Mary BreedFirst girl Geraldine Buckman

Second girl Mary F. W. Porchermaestro direttore Camille W. Zeckwer

5/23/24: The gondoliers: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/24/24: The gondoliers: Philadelphia, Broad Street Theatre (The Savo yCompany)5/31/24: The gondoliers: Kennett Square, Longwood Gardens, Conservatory (The Savo yCompany)

11/03/24: Otello: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Philadelphia National Opera Company)

Otello Nicola ZerolaJa go Elia Palma

Desdemona Erminia Ligottimaestro direttore Salvatore Avitabile

11/06/24: La bohème: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Civic Opera Company /Mrs. Henry M. Tracy)

Mimì Anna FitziuRodolfo Romeo Boscacci Tom Burke

Marcello Alfredo GondolfiSchaunard Valentin Figaniak

Colline Alfredo Valenti Henri Scott

Benoît Theodore BayerAlcindoro Reinhold Schmidt

Musetta Emily Stokes HagarParpignol Nino Mazzeo

Sergente dei doganieri Thomas F. Shaymaestro direttore Alexander Smallens

380

11/11/24: Faust: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000: stage directorArmando Agnini; set design Joseph Urban

Le docteur Faust Giovanni MartinelliMéphistophélès Fyodor Chaliapin

Marguerite Frances AldaValentin Vincente Ballester

Siébel Ellen DalossyDame Marthe Schwertlein Henriette Wakefield

Wa gner Paolo Ananianmaestro direttore Louis Hasselmans

11/13/24: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Civic Opera Company), hour: 2015: balletmistress Florence Cowanova

Il duca di Mantova Romeo BoscacciRigoletto Ivan Ivantzoff

Gilda Tina PaggiSparafucile J. Helffenstein MasonMaddalena Beatrice Eaton

Il conte di Monterone Valentin Figaniakmaestro direttore Alexander Smallens

11/17/24: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Co., Fortune Gallo), hour: 2015

La gioconda Marie RappoldLaura Adorno Stella de Mette

Alvise Badoero Pietro de BiasiLa cieca Mary Kent

Enzo Grimaldo Gaetano TommasiniBarnaba Mario Basiola


11/18/24: La bohème: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Mimì Anne RoselleRodolfo Demetrio Onofrei


Colline Pietro de BiasiMusetta Madeleine Collins

maestro direttore Alberto Baccolini



Aida Bianca SaroyaRadamès Manuel Salazar



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Cio-cio-san Anne RoselleB. F. Pinkerton Gaetano Tommasini

Suzuki Mary KentSharpless Mario Valle


Lo zio Bonzo Pietro de BiasiKate Pinkerton Philine Falco

maestro direttore Clarence C. Nice

Divertissements: (Pavley - Oukrainsky Ballet)11/20/24: Andrea Chénier: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Andrea Chénier Manuel SalazarCarlo Gérard Mario Basiola Mario Valle

Maddalena di Coigny Bianca SaroyaLa mulatta Bersi unknown

La contessa di Coigny unknownLa vecchia Madelon Stella de Mette

[Roucher] Pietro de BiasiUn «Incredibile» Francesco Curcimaestro direttore Fulgenzio Guerrieri

11/21/24: Faust: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: with the Pavley- Oukrainsky Ballet

Le docteur Faust Demetrio OnofreiMéphistophélès Pietro de Biasi

Marguerite Anne RoselleValentin Mario Basiola

Siébel Mary KentDame Marthe Schwertlein Philine Falco

Wa gner Louis de Cesaremaestro direttore Fulgenzio Guerrieri

11/22/24: Martha: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 1415

Lady Harriet Durham Josephine LeccheseNancy Mary Kent

Lord Tristan Mickleford unknownLyonel Demetrio Onofrei

Plumkett Mario Vallemaestro direttore unknown


Il conte di Luna Mario BasiolaLeonora Bianca SaroyaAzucena Stella de MetteManrico Manuel Salazar

Ferrando Pietro de Biasimaestro direttore Clarence C. Nice

382

11/24/24: Lucia di Lammermoor: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015:with the Pavley - Oukrainsky Ballet

Miss Lucia Josephine LuccheseSir Edgardo di RavenswoodGaetano Tommasini

Lord Enrico Asthon Mario ValleRaimondo Bidebent Natale CerviLord Arturo Buclaw Francesco Curci

Alisa Yvonne TravaNormanno Luigi de Cesare


11/25/24: Fedora: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

La principessa Fedora RomazovMaria JeritzaIl conte Loris Ipanov Giovanni Martinelli

La contessa Olga SukarevNannette GuilfordIl conte Giovanni de Siriex Antonio Scotti

Dimitri Louise HunterDesirè Giordano Paltrinieri

Il barone Rouvel Angelo BadàCirillo Giovanni MartinoBorov Millo Picco

Gretch Louis d’AngeloLorek Paolo Ananian

Sergio Sante MandelliUn piccolo savoiardo Merle Alcock

Boleslao Lazinski Wilfrid Pelletiermaestro direttore Gennaro Papi

11/25/24: Otello: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015

Otello Manuel SalazarJa go Mario Basiola

Cassio Francesco CurciRoderigo Arthur DosscheLodovico Pietro de BiasiMontàno Natale Cervi

Un araldo Luigi de CesareDesdemona Bianca Saroya

Emilia Philine Falcomaestro direttore Fulgenzio Guerrieri

383

11/26/24: Carmen: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: dancesarranged by Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky

Carmen Stella de MetteDon José Manuel SalazarEscamillo Mario Valle

Micaëla Abby MorrisonFr asquita Fredonia FrazerMercédès Philine Falco

Zuniga Pietro de BiasiMoralès George Cehanovsky

Le Dancaïre Francesco CurciLe Remendado Natale Cervi


ballet, Act IV: a) Andreas Pavley,Mlles. Campana, Romany, Samuels, Bennettb) Mlle. Dagmarac) Andreas Pavley, corps de ballet


Heinrich der Vogler Pietro de Biasi Henri Scott

Lohengrin Gaetano Tommasini Giuseppe Agostini

Elsa von Brabant Bianca SaroyaFriedrich von Telramund Mario Valle

Ortrud Stella de MetteDer Heerrufer des Königs George Cehanovsky

Vier brabantische Edlen unknownVier Edelknaben unknownmaestro direttore Fulgenzio Guerrieri


Santuzza Gladys AxmanLola Mary Kent

Turiddu Manuel SalazarAlfio George Cehanovsky

Lucia Alice Homermaestro direttore Fulgenzio Guerrieri


Canio Gaetano TommasiniNedda Anne RoselleTonio Mario BasiolaBeppe Francesco CurciSilvio George Cehanovsky


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11/28/24: Rigoletto: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (San Carlo Grand Opera Company), hour: 2015: with thePavley - Oukrainsky Ballet

Il duca di Mantova Demetrio OnofreiRigoletto Mario Basiola

Gilda Josephine LuccheseSparafucile Pietro de BiasiMaddalena Mary Kent


La contessa di Ceprano Fredonia FrazerGiovanna unknown

Il cavaliere Marullo unknownIl conte di Ceprano Luigi de Cesare

Usciere di corte unknownPa g gio della duchessaPhiline Falco



Cio-cio-san Anne RoselleB. F. Pinkerton Demetrio Onofrei

Suzuki Claire Eugenia SmithSharpless Mario Valle



Kate Pinkerton Fredonia FrazerL’ufficiale del registro unknown

Dolore Claire Crossettmaestro direttore Wassili Leps

Divertissements: (Pavley - Oukrainsky Ballet): dances and ballets arranged byMessrs.Pavley and Oukrainsky

Chopin:Valse brilliante Mlles. Campana, Samuels, Bennett, ChapmanMassenet:Thaïs: Méditation Mlle. Romany

Rubinstein:Fire dance Andreas Pavley

Lecocq: Russian peasant girl and her doll:The girl Mlle. CampanaThe doll Mlle. Samuels

Strauß:Blue Danube waltz: Mlles. Dagmara, Romany, Bennett, Chapman, Eggeman



Aida Bianca SaroyaRadamès Gaetano Tommasini


Un messaggero Francesco CurciUna sacerdotessa Yvonne Travamaestro direttore Fulgenzio Guerrieri

Incidental ballet:Mlles. Romany, Campana, Samuels, corps de ballet

385

12/02/24: Les contes d’Hoffmann: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

Hoffmann Miguel FletaNicklausse Kathleen Howard

Olympia Nina MorganaAntonia Lucrezia Bori

Giulietta Lucrezia BoriLindorf Gustav Schützendorf

Coppélius Giuseppe de LucaDr. Miracle Giuseppe de LucaDapertutto Giuseppe de Luca

Andrès Angelo BadàCochenille Angelo Badà

Fr antz Angelo BadàPitichinaccio Angelo Badà

La mère d’Antonia Merle AlcockSpalanzani Paolo Ananian

Hermann William GustafsonSchlémil Lawrence Tibbett

Nathanaël Max AltglassLuther Millo Picco

Crespel Louis d’Angelomaestro direttore Louis Hasselmans

12/08/24: Fr a Diavolo (English): Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Operatic Society): stage directorWilliam Morris; ballet mistress Marie Bernadette Kerns; librarian Saul H. Mann; master of propertiesJohn Crozier; wardrobe mistress Ethyl B. Squires; costumes, wigs, make-up Chas. Saake, Jr.

Fr a Diavolo Gerald EtchellsLord Rochburg D. L. Matthews

Lady Pamela Alice W. FischelisLorenzo John B. BeckerMathéo Charles D. LongZerline Charlotte T. Loeben

Giacomo William L. SchryerBeppo George R. Taylor

maestro direttore Hedda van den Beemt

12/09/24: La gioconda: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, New York), hour: 2000

La gioconda Rosa PonselleEnzo Grimaldo Beniamino GigliLaura Adorno Jeanne Gordon

Barnaba Giuseppe DaniseAlvise Badoero José Mardones

La cieca Merle AlcockZuàne Vincenzo ReschiglianIsèpo Giordano Paltrinieri

Un monaco Louis d’AngeloUn pilota Louis d’Angelo

Un cantore Vincenzo Reschiglianmaestro direttore Tullio Serafin

386

12/11/24: Cavalleria Rusticana: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Civic Opera Company), hour: 2015:stage director Alex. Puglia

Santuzza Elsa AlsenLola Beatrice Eaton

Turiddu Judson HouseAlfio Valentin FiganiakLucia Regina Marsh Mary Bray

maestro direttore Alexander Smallens

Pa gliacci: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Civic Opera Company)

Canio Ulysses LappasNedda Anna FitziuTonio Nelson EddyBeppe Albert MahlerSilvio James McFadden Carpenter


12/16/24: Její pastorkyna(Janácˇek,Jenu°fa), German: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Metropolitan Opera Company, NewYork), hour: 2000

Starenka Buryjovka, grandmotherKathleen HowardLaca Klemenˇ Martin ÖhmanSteva Buryja Rudolf Laubenthal

Kostelnicka Buryjovka, sexton’s widow Margarete MatzenauerJenu°fa Maria Jeritza

Stárek, foreman Arnold GaborRychtárˇ, mayor James Wolfe

Rychtárˇka, mayor’s wife Laura RobertsonKarolka Ellen DalossyBarena Charlotte Ryan

Maid Grace AnthonyAunt Marie Mattfeld


12/18/24: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia Civic Opera Company), hour: 2015

Il conte d’Almaviva Rogelio BaldrichIl dottore Bartolo Giuseppe La Puma

Rosina Nina MorganaFigaro Ivan Ivantzoff

Don Basilio Henri ScottBerta Eleanor Leslie

Theodore BayerValentin Figaniak


Lesson scene:Mireille Waltz

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