Olive Fremstad soprano 1871-1951
Background
Born in Stockholm, she was adopted by an American couple living in Minnesota, taking on their surname of Fremstad. She received her early education and musical training in Christiania, Norway. When she was 12 years of age her parents moved to America, settling in Minneapolis. Even before leaving Christiania, her progress on the piano had been such that she had appeared as an infant prodigy.
She began her vocal training in New York City with Frederick Bristol in 1890 after singing in church choirs, then studied in Berlin with Lilli Lehmann before making her operatic debut as a mezzo-soprano as Azucena in Verdi’s Il trovatore at the Cologne Opera in 1895. She remained there for at least three years, before going on to Vienna, Munich, Bayreuth and London.
Career
She appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1903 until 1914, specializing in Wagnerian roles. By that time she was singing as a dramatic soprano. Fremstad appeared before the public 351 times as a member of the Met’s stellar roster, most frequently as Venus in Tannhäuser, Kundry in Parsifal, Sieglinde, Isolde and Elsa in Lohengrin.
American audiences never warmed much to her interpretation of the title role in Bizet’s Carmen, but she had sung the role opposite Enrico Caruso in San Francisco the night before the city was wrecked by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and ensuing fire. (She and Caruso escaped the disaster unharmed.)
Later in her career, Fremstad experienced difficulties with the top notes of the dramatic soprano range. She retired from professional singing in 1920 and briefly attempted teaching, but her patience for anything less than perfection in her pupils proved to be slim. One “lesson” involved the close examination of a dissected human head preserved in a jar. She was mystified when her few students fled in horror, unwilling to study the human larynx in such a setting.
She used this head as a tool for determining whether or not prospective students had the “mettle” for an opera career. For Fremstad herself this wasn’t anything special; when studying for the role of Salome in the Metropolitan’s premier production, she had gone to the morgue in New York to find out just how much she should stagger under the weight of the head of John the Baptist.
Her output of recordings is meager. She made approximately 40 recordings between 1911 and 1915, only 15 of which were ever released. Music critic J.B. Steane has called Fremstad “one of the greatest of Wagnerians”; but in his The Record of Singing, Volume 1, the opera historian Michael Scott describes her as always being more of a mezzo-soprano than a genuine soprano. Scott, however, acknowledges her impressive qualities as an interpretive artist.
Fremstad allegedly professed to have no interest in romantic entanglements. However, she wed twice, with both marriages ending in divorce. She and her secretary, Mary Watkins Cushing, also lived together for some time. She died in Irvington, New York, but was buried alongside her parents in a family plot in the village cemetery in Grantsburg, Wisconsin.
Fremstad was the model for Thea Kronborg, the heroine of Willa Cather’s novel The Song of the Lark. Her relationship with Cushing was fictionalized in the novel Of Lena Geyer, by Marcia Davenport.
Metropolitan Opera
[Met Performance] CID:32010    New production Die Walküre {96} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/25/1903 Debuts: Ernst Kraus, Olive Fremstad, Lillian Heidelbach, Johanna Pöhlmann, Paula Ralph, Josephine Jacoby, Marcia Van Dresser, Felix Mottl, Anton Fuchs, Max Brückner, Obronsky, Impekoven & Co. Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:32040 Die Walküre {97} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/28/1903 Debut: Marion Weed |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:32050 First Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 11/29/1903 |
| [Met Performance] CID:32080 New production Tannhäuser {125} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/4/1903 Debut: Ernesta Delsarta Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:32120 Tannhäuser {126} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/7/1903 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:32170 Third Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 12/13/1903 |
| [Met Performance] CID:32290 Tannhäuser {127} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/26/1903 |
| [Met Performance] CID:32380 Tannhäuser {128} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/2/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:32490 Cavalleria Rusticana {82} Pagliacci {41} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 01/12/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:32520 Cavalleria Rusticana {83} Pagliacci {42} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/15/1904 Debut: Fanchon Thompson |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:32630 Ninth Grand Sunday Night Concert Beethoven – Liszt Night Metropolitan Opera House; 01/24/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:32650 Tannhäuser {130} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 01/26/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:32690 Die Walküre {98} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/30/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:32860 Tristan und Isolde {66} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/13/1904 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:32960 Thirteenth Grand Sunday Night Concert Wagner Programme Metropolitan Opera House; 02/21/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:33090 New production Das Rheingold {37} Ring Cycle [26] Metropolitan Opera House; 03/3/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:33120 Die Walküre {99} Ring Cycle [26] Metropolitan Opera House; 03/5/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:33140 Das Rheingold {38} Ring Cycle [27] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 03/7/1904 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:33160 Die Walküre {100} Ring Cycle [27] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 03/8/1904 Debut: Miss Schueler Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:33250 Die Walküre {101} Chicago, Illinois; 03/14/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:33310 Tannhäuser {131} Chicago, Illinois; 03/19/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:33390 Die Walküre {102} Cincinnati, Ohio; 03/28/1904 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:33460 Grand Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 04/4/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:33510 Die Walküre {103} Boston Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts; 04/7/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:33590 Tannhäuser {132} Boston Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts; 04/14/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:33630 Das Rheingold {39} Ring Cycle [28] Metropolitan Opera House; 04/18/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:33650 Die Walküre {104} Ring Cycle [28] Metropolitan Opera House; 04/20/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:34030 Carmen {186} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/25/1904 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:34090 Parsifal {14} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/1/1904 Debut: Roberta Glanville Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:34160 Tannhäuser {134} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/7/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:34220 Carmen {187} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/12/1904 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:34350 Fifth Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 12/25/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:34410 Carmen {188} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/29/1904 |
| [Met Performance] CID:34460 Parsifal {19} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/2/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:34580 Die Walküre {106} Ring Cycle [29] Metropolitan Opera House; 01/12/1905 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:34620 Eighth Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 01/15/1905 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:34780 Tenth Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 01/29/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:34820 Das Rheingold {41} Ring Cycle [30] Metropolitan Opera House; 02/2/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:34880 Carmen {190} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 02/7/1905 Review |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:34940 Twelfth Grand Sunday Night Concert Gallia {2} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/12/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:34990 Metropolitan Opera Premiere Die Fledermaus {1} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/16/1905 Debut: Max Hänseler Reviews |
| [Met Performance] CID:35020 Tannhäuser {135} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/18/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:35070 Parsifal {20} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/22/1905 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:35200 Die Walküre {108} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/4/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:35250 Parsifal {22} Boston Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts; 03/9/1905 Debuts: Hannah Keene, Florence Metzger |
| [Met Performance] CID:35310 Parsifal {23} Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 03/14/1905 Debut: Miss Walter |
| [Met Performance] CID:35350 Parsifal {24} Cincinnati, Ohio; 03/17/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:35410 Parsifal {26} Chicago, Illinois; 03/23/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:35460 Parsifal {27} Minneapolis, Minnesota; 03/27/1905 Debut: Miss Hertz |
| [Met Performance] CID:35490 Parsifal {28} Omaha, Nebraska; 03/29/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:35510 Parsifal {29} Kansas City, Missouri; 03/31/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:35610 Parsifal {31} Grand Opera House, San Francisco, California; 04/11/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:35630 Parsifal {32} Grand Opera House, San Francisco, California; 04/13/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:35680 Parsifal {33} Los Angeles, California; 04/17/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:35700 Parsifal {34} Dallas Opers House, Dallas, Texas; 04/21/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:35720 Parsifal {36} New Orleans, Louisiana; 04/24/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:35730 Parsifal {37} Atlanta, Georgia; 04/26/1905 Debut: Miss Walker |
| [Met Performance] CID:350549 Parsifal {39} Nashville, Tennessee; 4/29/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:36040 Tannhäuser {136} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/25/1905 Debut: Jeanne Jomelli |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:36120 Second Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 12/3/1905 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:36180 Die Walküre {109} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/9/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:36220 Siegfried {73} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/13/1905 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:36260 Fourth Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 12/17/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:36280 Die Walküre {110} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 12/19/1905 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:36340 Das Rheingold {42} Ring Cycle [31] Metropolitan Opera House; 12/25/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:36370 Die Walküre {111} Ring Cycle [31] Metropolitan Opera House; 12/27/1905 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:36440 Sixth Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 12/31/1905 |
| [Met Performance] CID:36570 Parsifal {40} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/11/1906 Debut: Helen Allyn, Miss Auspitz, Mary Kenney, Jessie Minges, Miss Newcombe, Inga Örner |
| [Met Performance] CID:36650 Parsifal {41} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/18/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:36700 Tannhäuser {137} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/22/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:36730 Parsifal {42} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/25/1906 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:36850 Eleventh Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 02/4/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:36970 Metropolitan Opera Premiere Der Zigeunerbaron {1} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/15/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:37000 Tannhäuser {138} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/17/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:37030 Carmen {191} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 02/20/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:37050 Parsifal {43} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/22/1906 Debut: Evelyn Parnelle |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:37100 Fourteenth Grand Sunday Night Concert Richard Wagner Programme Metropolitan Opera House; 02/25/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:37120 Das Rheingold {43} Ring Cycle [32] Metropolitan Opera House; 02/27/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:37130 Tannhäuser {139} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/28/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:37190 Carmen {192} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/5/1906 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:37200 Die Walküre {112} Ring Cycle [32] Metropolitan Opera House; 03/6/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:37220 Siegfried {76} Ring Cycle [32] Metropolitan Opera House; 03/8/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:37290 Carmen {193} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/14/1906 Review |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:37340 Seventeenth and Last Sunday Night Concert Richard Wagner Programme Metropolitan Opera House; 03/18/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:37370 Die Walküre {113} Lyric Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland; 03/21/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:37440 Carmen {194} Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 03/27/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:37480 Die Walküre {114} Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 03/30/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:37550 Carmen {195} Chicago, Illinois; 04/5/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:37580 Tannhäuser {140} The Auditorium, Chicago, Illinois; 04/7/1906 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:37660 Carmen {196} San Francisco, California; 4/17/1906 On April 18 the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 destroyed much of the city and ended the Met’s tour in disaster |
| [Met Performance] CID:38030 Tannhäuser {141} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/30/1906 Debuts: Katherine Fleischer-Edel, Carl Burrian, Frederick Gunther |
| [Met Performance] CID:38110 Tannhäuser {142} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/8/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:38150 Tannhäuser {143} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 12/11/1906 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:38270 Fourth Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 12/23/1906 |
| [Met Performance] CID:38470 New production L’Africaine {22} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/11/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:38510 Tannhäuser {145} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/14/1907 |
[Met Performance] CID:38600  United States Premiere Special Performance Salome {1} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/22/1907 Debuts: Paul Lange, Franz Stiner Reviews |
| [Met Performance] CID:38680 Carmen {197} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 01/29/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:38720 Carmen {198} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/2/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:38770 Tannhäuser {146} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/6/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:38910 L’Africaine {23} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/18/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:38950 Parsifal {44} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/22/1907 Debut: Marion Kingsbury, Edna Cook, Sophie Fanoni |
| [Met Performance] CID:39010 Die Walküre {115} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 02/26/1907 Debut: Paula Wöhning Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:39040 Die Walküre {116} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/1/1907 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:39180 Special Performance Testimonial Tendered To MR. EMIL FISCHER Metropolitan Opera House; 03/15/1907 Review |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:39220 Sixteenth Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 03/17/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:39240 Das Rheingold {44} Ring Cycle [33] Metropolitan Opera House; 03/19/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:39260 Die Walküre {117} Ring Cycle [33] Metropolitan Opera House; 03/21/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:39370 Parsifal {45} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/29/1907 Debuts: Miss Kranz, Miss Waeffing, Florence Rayner, Miss Sturzenegger, Mr. Traubmann |
| [Met Performance] CID:39450 Tannhäuser {147} Boston Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts; 04/5/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:39480 L’Africaine {24} Chicago, Illinois; 04/8/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:39520 Tannhäuser {148} Chicago, Illinois; 04/11/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:39570 Tannhäuser {149} Cincinnati, Ohio; 04/16/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:39610 Tannhäuser {150} St. Louis, Missouri; 04/18/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:39670 Tannhäuser {151} The Auditorium, St. Paul, Minnesota; 04/23/1907 |
| [Met Performance] CID:39730 Tannhäuser {152} Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 04/27/1907 |
[Met Performance] CID:40470   New production Tristan und Isolde {84} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/1/1908 Debut: Gustav Mahler Reviews / Chapter: Mahler at the Met |
| [Met Performance] CID:40560 Tristan und Isolde {85} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/9/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:40660 Tristan und Isolde {86} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/18/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:40730 Tristan und Isolde {87} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/24/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:40780 Tristan und Isolde {88} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 01/28/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:40800 Tannhäuser {153} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/30/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:40890 Die Walküre {118} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/7/1908 Reviews |
| [Met Performance] CID:40950 Die Walküre {119} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 02/11/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:40970 Die Walküre {120} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/13/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41040 Siegfried {82} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/19/1908 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:41090 Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 02/23/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41130 Siegfried {83} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/27/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41160 Tristan und Isolde {90} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/29/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41240 Siegfried {84} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/7/1908 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:41270 Tannhäuser {154} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 03/10/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41340 Tannhäuser {155} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/16/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41430 Siegfried {85} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 03/24/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41490 Tannhäuser {156} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/28/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41560 Tannhäuser {157} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/4/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41640 Tristan und Isolde {91} Boston Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts; 04/11/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41660 Das Rheingold {45} Ring Cycle [34] Metropolitan Opera House; 04/13/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41710 Siegfried {86} Ring Cycle [34] Metropolitan Opera House; 04/16/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41790 Die Walküre {124} Chicago, Illinois; 04/22/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41830 Tristan und Isolde {92} Chicago, Illinois; 04/25/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:41870 Die Walküre {125} Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 04/29/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:42030 Die Walküre {126} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/18/1908 Debuts: Erik Schmedes, Allen Hinckley, Matja von Niessen-Stone, Rosina Van Dyck, Maria Ranzow, Fritz Feinhals Review |
[Met Performance] CID:42130  Parsifal {46} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/26/1908 Debut: Herbert Witherspoon Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:42220 Die Walküre {127} Academy of Music, New York, Brooklyn; 12/2/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:42260 Die Walküre {128} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/5/1908 |
[Met Performance] CID:42310  Götterdämmerung {62} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/10/1908 Norns restored; Brünnhilde/Waltraute omitted Debut: Marianne Flahaut Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:42410 Götterdämmerung {63} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/18/1908 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:42480 Tristan und Isolde {93} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/23/1908 Review |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:42530 Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 12/27/1908 |
| [Met Performance] CID:42580 Parsifal {47} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/1/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:42630 Tristan und Isolde {94} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/4/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:42670 Tristan und Isolde {95} Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 01/7/1909 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:42720 Grand Sunday Concert Benefit for Italian Earthquake Sufferers Metropolitan Opera House; 01/10/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:42760 Die Walküre {129} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/14/1909 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:42810 Grand Popular Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 01/17/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:42890 Götterdämmerung {64} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/23/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:43060 Tannhäuser {158} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/5/1909 Debuts: Pierina Bongiovanni, Miss Gast |
| [Met Performance] CID:43120 Tannhäuser {159} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/10/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:43150 Parsifal {48} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/12/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:43170 Tannhäuser {160} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/13/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:43210 Tannhäuser {161} Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 02/16/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:43240 Tannhäuser {162} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/18/1909 Debuts: Walter Soomer, Miss Krieger |
| [Met Performance] CID:43300 Parsifal {49} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/22/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:43440 Das Rheingold {46} Ring Cycle [35] Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 03/4/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:43480 Parsifal {50} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/6/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:43520 Tannhäuser {163} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/9/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:43560 Tristan und Isolde {96} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/12/1909 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:43580 Tannhäuser {164} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/13/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:44060 Parsifal {51} Chicago, Illinois; 04/18/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:44080 Tannhäuser {166} Chicago, Illinois; 04/20/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:45210 Parsifal {52} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/25/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:45400 Tannhäuser {171} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/4/1909 Debuts: Margarete Horwitz, Violet Tarr |
| [Met Performance] CID:45450 Tosca {62} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 12/7/1909 |
[Met Performance] CID:45520  Tosca {63} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/11/1909 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:45570 Lohengrin {244} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 12/14/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:45650 Lohengrin {245} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/18/1909 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:45810 Tristan und Isolde {101} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/27/1909 |
| [Met Performance] CID:45930 Parsifal {53} Baltimore, Maryland; 01/1/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:45990 Tristan und Isolde {102} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 01/4/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:46000 Tannhäuser {172} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/5/1910 Debut: Jane Osborn-Hannah |
| [Met Performance] CID:46060 Die Walküre {134} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/8/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:46100 Tristan und Isolde {103} Boston, Massachusetts; 01/10/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:46140 Tosca {66} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/12/1910 First Met Broadcast (Acts II, III) Reviews |
| [Met Performance] CID:46200 Parsifal {54} Boston, Massachusetts; 01/15/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:46240 Tannhäuser {173} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/17/1910 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:46370 Das Rheingold {48} Ring Cycle [37] Metropolitan Opera House; 01/24/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:46430 Die Walküre {135} Ring Cycle [37] Metropolitan Opera House; 01/27/1910 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:46490 Eleventh Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 01/30/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:46570 Tristan und Isolde {104} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/3/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:46670 Die Walküre {136} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 02/8/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:46720 Lohengrin {248} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/11/1910 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:46760 Thirteenth Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 02/13/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:46920 Parsifal {55} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/22/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:46980 Das Rheingold {49} Ring Cycle [38] Metropolitan Opera House; 02/24/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:47200 Parsifal {56} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 03/8/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:47410 Tannhäuser {174} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/19/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:47470 Die Walküre {138} Baltimore, Maryland; 03/22/1910 Debut: Walter Hyde |
| [Met Performance] CID:47510 Parsifal {57} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/25/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:47560 Die Walküre {139} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/28/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:47660 Cavalleria Rusticana {123} Coppélia {12} New York, Manhattan, New Theatre; 04/1/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:47740 Lohengrin {250} Baltimore, Maryland; 04/5/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:47800 Lohengrin {251} Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 04/7/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:47900 Lohengrin {252} Cleveland, Ohio; 04/12/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:47960 Lohengrin {253} Toledo, Ohio; 04/14/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:48060 Lohengrin {254} Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 04/19/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:48120 Lohengrin {255} St. Paul, Minnesota; 04/21/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:48200 Parsifal {58} Chicago, Illinois; 04/24/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:48230 Lohengrin {256} Chicago, Illinois; 04/26/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:48270 Tannhäuser {178} Chicago, Illinois; 04/27/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:48360 Cavalleria Rusticana {127} Pagliacci {107} Louisville, Kentucky; 04/30/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:48370 Lohengrin {257} Auditorium, Atlanta, Georgia; 05/2/1910 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:48430 Cavalleria Rusticana {128} Pagliacci {109} Paris, France; 05/23/1910 Debut: Alfredo Costa |
| [Met Performance] CID:48450 Cavalleria Rusticana {129} Pagliacci {110} Paris, France; 05/27/1910 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:48550 Gala Performance Paris, France; 06/19/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:48570 Cavalleria Rusticana {130} Pagliacci {111} Paris, France; 06/22/1910 |
[Met Performance] CID:49000  United States Premiere Armide {1} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/14/1910 Opening Night {26} Giulio Gatti-Casazza, General Manager Debuts: Lucia Fornaroli, Anna Mariani, Maison Muelle Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:49020 Tannhäuser {179} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/16/1910 Debut: William Hinshaw |
| [Met Performance] CID:49100 Parsifal {59} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/24/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:49180 Armide {2} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/30/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:49220 Tannhäuser {180} Academy of Music, Brooklyn ,New York; 12/3/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:49270 Lohengrin {259} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/9/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:49320 Tannhäuser {181} Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 12/13/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:49520 Tannhäuser {183} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/29/1910 |
| [Met Performance] CID:49570 Parsifal {60} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/2/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:49600 Tristan und Isolde {106} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/4/1911 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:49670 Tannhäuser {184} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/9/1911 Debut: Ada Torriani |
| [Met Performance] CID:49700 Armide {3} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/12/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:49760 Lohengrin {261} Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York; 01/17/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:49860 Lohengrin {262} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/25/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:49970 Tristan und Isolde {107} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/3/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50040 Die Walküre {144} Ring Cycle [39] Metropolitan Opera House; 02/9/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50110 Tosca {75} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/13/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50200 Tristan und Isolde {109} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/20/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50240 Tosca {76} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/23/1911 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:50280 Fifteenth Sunday Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 02/26/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50300 Tosca {77} Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York; 02/28/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50360 Parsifal {61} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/4/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50420 Die Walküre {145} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/9/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50450 Lohengrin {263} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/11/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50520 Tannhäuser {185} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/17/1911 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:50550 Eighteenth Sunday Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 03/19/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50570 Parsifal {62} Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York; 03/21/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50620 Lohengrin {264} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/25/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50700 Tosca {79} Ballet Divertissement Metropolitan Opera House; 03/31/1911 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:50780 Gala Performance Metropolitan Opera House; 04/6/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50820 Tannhäuser {186} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/8/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50850 Parsifal {63} Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 04/11/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50880 Parsifal {64} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/14/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50920 Tannhäuser {187} Montreal Canada; 04/17/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:50970 Tannhäuser {188} Cleveland, Ohio; 04/21/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:52040 Tristan und Isolde {110} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/17/1911 Debut: Hermann Weil |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:52060 First Sunday Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 11/19/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:52120 Lohengrin {266} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/25/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:52180 Parsifal {65} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/30/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:52290 Tristan und Isolde {111} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/9/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:52370 Armide {4} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/16/1911 |
| [Met Performance] CID:52780 Tannhäuser {189} Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York; 01/13/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:52810 Siegfried {96} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 01/16/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:52840 Siegfried {97} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/18/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53110 Armide {5} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/8/1912 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:53150 Thirteenth Grand Sunday Night Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 02/11/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53210 Tristan und Isolde {114} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/15/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53230 Tannhäuser {190} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/17/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53270 Tosca {86} Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York; 02/20/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53290 Götterdämmerung {75} Ring Cycle [40] Metropolitan Opera House; 02/22/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53370 Tosca {87} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/28/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53400 Tannhäuser {191} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/1/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53490 Armide {6} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/8/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53530 Tannhäuser {192} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/11/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53620 Armide {7} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/18/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53660 Lohengrin {273} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/21/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53740 Die Walküre {150} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/28/1912 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:53770 Tannhäuser {193} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/30/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53840 Parsifal {67} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/5/1912 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:53880 Twenty-first And Last But One Sunday Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 04/7/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53910 Die Walküre {151} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/10/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:53980 Tannhäuser {194} Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts; 04/15/1912 Debut: Miss Kespar, Jessie Rogge |
| [Met Performance] CID:54010 Lohengrin {274} Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts; 04/17/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54502 Tannhäuser {196} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/13/1912 Debuts: Louise Cox, Stella De Mette, Veni Warwick, Margherita Pezzatini, Hilda Wall |
| [Met Performance] CID:54505 Götterdämmerung {76} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/16/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54509 Tannhäuser {197} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 11/19/1912 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:54515 Second Sunday Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 11/24/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54519 Parsifal {68} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/28/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54528 Götterdämmerung {77} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/04/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54532 Tannhäuser {198} Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York; 12/07/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54539 Die Walküre {152} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/14/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54547 Götterdämmerung {78} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/20/1912 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54555 Die Walküre {153} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/26/1912 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:54562 Parsifal {69} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/01/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54567 Die Walküre {154} Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York; 01/04/1913 |
[Met Performance] CID:54574   Metropolitan Opera Premiere Les Contes d’Hoffmann {1} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/11/1913 Debut: Attilio Comelli Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:54579 Tristan und Isolde {116} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/15/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54584 Les Contes d’Hoffmann {2} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/18/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54590 Tristan und Isolde {117} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/23/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54595 Les Contes d’Hoffmann {3} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/27/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54607 Die Walküre {155} Ring Cycle [41] Metropolitan Opera House; 02/06/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54620 Die Walküre {156} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/15/1913 Review |
[Met Performance] CID:54625  Götterdämmerung {79} Ring Cycle [41] Metropolitan Opera House; 02/20/1913 Review |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:54630 Fifteenth Sunday Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 02/23/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54636 Tristan und Isolde {119} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/28/1913 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:54641 Tosca {91} Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York; 03/04/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54646 Tannhäuser {201} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/08/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54649 Tosca {92} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/10/1913 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:54651 Les Contes d’Hoffmann {7} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/12/1913 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:54654 Die Walküre {158} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/14/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54662 Parsifal {70} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/21/1913 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:54666 Nineteenth Sunday Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 03/23/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54669 Lohengrin {277} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/26/1913 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:54680 Tannhäuser {202} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/03/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54683 Lohengrin {278} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/05/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:54690 Tannhäuser {203} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/11/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:55010 Tosca {96} Albany, New York; 11/18/1913 Debut: Giovanni Martinelli |
[Met Performance] CID:55040  Lohengrin {279} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/21/1913 Debuts: Anna Giordano, Margarete Ober Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:55110 Parsifal {71} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/27/1913 Debut: Sophie Braslau |
| [Met Performance] CID:55170 Lohengrin {280} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/1/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:55230 Tosca {97} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/6/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:55290 Tannhäuser {204} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/12/1913 Debut: Adele Giordano |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:55320 Fourth Sunday Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 12/14/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:55340 Tannhäuser {205} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 12/16/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:55380 New production Die Walküre {159} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/20/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:55430 Tristan und Isolde {120} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/24/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:55510 Tannhäuser {206} Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York; 12/30/1913 |
| [Met Performance] CID:55530 Parsifal {72} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/1/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:55630 Die Walküre {160} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/9/1914 |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:55660 Eighth Sunday Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 01/11/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:55730 Lohengrin {281} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/17/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:55800 Tristan und Isolde {122} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/22/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:55830 Tannhäuser {207} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/24/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:55880 New production Das Rheingold {53} Ring Cycle [42] Metropolitan Opera House; 01/29/1914 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:55970 Die Walküre {161} Ring Cycle [42] Metropolitan Opera House; 02/5/1914 Debut: Rudolf Berger |
| [Met Concert/Gala] CID:56020 Twelfth Sunday Concert Metropolitan Opera House; 02/8/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56040 Tosca {100} Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 02/10/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56090 Tristan und Isolde {123} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/14/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56150 New production Götterdämmerung {80} Ring Cycle [42] Metropolitan Opera House; 02/19/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56190 Die Walküre {162} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/21/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56230 Tosca {102} Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York; 02/24/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56340 Die Walküre {163} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/5/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56440 Götterdämmerung {82} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/13/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56490 Lohengrin {283} Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York; 03/17/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56550 Lohengrin {284} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/21/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56570 Die Walküre {164} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/23/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56680 Die Walküre {165} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/1/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56760 Die Walküre {166} Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York; 04/7/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56790 Parsifal {73} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/10/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56860 Tannhäuser {208} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/15/1914 |
| [Met Performance] CID:56960 Lohengrin {285} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/23/1914 Review |
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