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Dimitri Andreevich Usatov February 22, 1847 - August 23, 1913 Russian tenor . He studied music with Camille Everardi at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory , He began his career in Kiev and continued in Kazan. There he received the offer of an audition from Edward Napravink , Music Director of the Marinsky Theatre in St Petersburg .His actual debut on the Imperial Stage , however took place at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 1880 where he remained until 1889. During this period he sang Faust in "Faust" , Duke of Mantua in "Rigoletto" ,Raoul in "les Huguenots" ,Lionel in "Martha" There he creted the role of Lensky in "Eugene Onegin" in 1881 and the role of Andrei in" Mazeppa" in 1884 Vakula "Cherevichki" in 1887.After retiring from stage he taught singing in Tbilisi, ( his most famous pupil was Feodor Chaliapin),Usatov moved to Yalta in 1902 Usatov had a good relationship with the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In addition to the operas already mentioned, he performed songs by Tchaikovsky for the Russian Music Society in 1877, 1880 and 1882. At Usatov's request, Tchaikovsky orchestrated one of the songs from his Opus 54, "16 Children's Songs." In 1884, Tchaikovsky dedicated a song from his Opus 57, "Six Songs," to Usatov.

LYDIA LIPKOWSKA [Lipkowskaya]. (Lydia MARSCHNER ) (Babino, 10 May 1880 - Beirut, January 23, 1955). Russian soprano Married Georges Baklanoff. Begins June 26, 1909 in ROMEO and Juliet (Juliet). In 1913, sang RIGOLETTO (Gilda) and HAMLET (Ophelia).

as Virginie in "PAUL ET VIRGINIE " by Masse FRANCES SAVILLE (Fanny Martina Simonsen) (6 January 1865 – 8 November 1935) Soprano Born in San Francisco in 1865. Her parents managed the Simonsen Grand Opera Company and moved the family to Australia when the company toured here early in Saville's childhood. She began to study singing with her mother, an accomplished operatic and concert soprano, at the age of thirteen and made her first public peformance in 1882 in a production of Balfe's 'Satanella'. Saville performed extensively in Sydney and Melbourne throughout the 1880s. She made her final appearance in Australia in a concert at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne in 1891 before heading to Paris where she began her studies with Mathilde Marchesi. She made her European debut in the role of Juliette at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels on 7 September, 1892 and continued to perform lead roles to great acclaim over the next three years throughout Europe and the United Kingdom. Saville began her first season at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1895. She made her first recording the same year for Giammi Bettini. It was during her debut season with the Vienna Court Opera (known as the Hofoper) in 1898 that Saville purchased a property in Styria where she would spend six months of every year after her retirement. Saville's relationship with the director of the Hofoper, Gustav Mahler, became increasingly strained over the next five years. She left the company in 1903 and made her final appearance in an opera as Violetta in Prague on 9 May, 1903. By 1903 Saville had amassed a considerable fortune, and had recieved numerous honours. Her retirement was spent mainly in Austria where she suffered the loss of her son Frank in 1911 and that of her estranged husband Max Rown soon after. She was forced to leave Austria at the onset of the First World War and eventually returned to Australia where she lived briefly with her sister. Her final years were spent in California with her niece Daisy before declining health forced her to move to a sanitarium in Belmont where she died on November 8, 1935.

CHARLOTTE WYNS (Charlotte Félicie Wyns) (.Paris, 11 January 1868 - AP. 1917) French Mezzo Soprano She was a student of Crosti, Achard, and Giraudet. A few months later, in July 1891, won second prize in singing (air of the Queen of Cyprus) and a second runner-up of opera (Azucena du Trouvère air). The following year, she won three first prizes: in Fides of the Prophet for the vocals, Psyche of Ambroise Thomas Eros for the Opéra-Comique, and stage of the recognition of the Prophet for the opera. She signed a commitment with the Opéra-Comique,. Begins on October 31, 1893 in Mignon (it is she who will sing this role on the evening of the May 13, 1894). Second debut in Carmen on February 5, 1894. Either in Paris or in Aix, in Trouville, in Vichy, plays the Portrait de Manon; the Vivandière, Godard; Meal, Paul and Virginia; Charlotte, Werther; Santuzza, of Cavalleria Rusticana; the mother of Sappho. , at the Comédie-Française. She sang Gluck's successfully to an evening of the Cercle de l'Union. She spent the year 1898 in Brussels and returned triumphantly, in 1899, at the Opéra-Comique

ALBERT SALEZA (Luke Albert Saleza) (64.Bruges, October 18, 1867 - 64.Biarritz, November 26, 1916). French Tenor Debut May 16, 1892 by creating SALAMMBÔ (MDM). Also creates DJELMA (Nelly) and OTHELLO (Othello).portrayed in Le CID (Rodrigue), VALKYRIE (Siegmund), SIGURD (Sigurd) in 1893; Romeo and Juliet (Romeo, 1894), TANNHÄUSER (Tannhäuser, 1895), FAUST (Faust, 1898). He was Professor of lyrical declamation (opera) at the Conservatoire de Paris (1911-1916).

ALBERT REISS (22 February 1870 – 19 June 1940) German Tenor Began his career as an actor . He proceeded to study singing with Wilhelm Vilmar and later Julius Lieben and Benno Stolzenberg. He made his professional operatic debut in 1897 as Peter Ivanov in Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann at Königsberg. The following year he joined the opera house at Posen where he sang roles for only one season. In 1899 he began performing at the Wiesbaden Opera House where he performed roles until the fall of 1901 when he left to join the roster at the Metropolitan Opera. His first performance with the company was in Toronto on 12 October as Remendado in Bizet's Carmen. He made his first appearance at the company's house in New York City on December 23, 1901 as both the Shepherd and the Steersman in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. This was the beginning of a long association with the Met for Reiss, who appeared with the company every year for the next eighteen years in mostly tenor buffo roles. Most notably he sang in several world premiers with the company including: Nick in Puccini's La fanciulla del West, the Broom-maker in Humperdinck's Königskinder, Nial in Horatio Parker's Mona, the offstage male lover in Puccini's Il Tabarro, Richard II of England in Reginald de Koven's The Canterbury Pilgrims and Ragueneau in Walter Damrosch's Cyrano. His farewell performance on 14 April 1919 - again as Remendado - was his 1,070th performance with the company.

S COHEN CAMPBELL (1830 -1874) American Baritone

Walter Hyde as Pinkerton 'Madama Butterfly" Puccini WALTER HYDE (Birmingham 1875 - London 1951) English Tenor He trained in London at the Royal College of Music under Gustave Garcia and Walter Parratt. His early professional career was in musical comedy .Percy Pitt then recruited him to sing Siegmund in the 1908 English language Ring cycles at Covent Garden, which were conducted by Hans Richter and directed by E C Hedmondt. He continued to work regularly at Covent Garden until 1923. He sang Siegmund at the New York Met, and in 1912 toured the USA in Robin Hood. After Siegmund, his most notable Wagnerian role was probably Parsifal. He later became Professor of Singing at the Guildhall School of Music

GUISEPPE CREMONINI (Guiseppe Bianchi) (25 November 1866 – 9 May 1903) Italian Tenor He studied under a teacher with the surname of Cima. Taking on the name Giuseppe Cremonini, he made his professional opera debut in 1889 at the Teatro Politeama in Genoa as Carlo in Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix. he performed the role of Wilhelm Meister in Ambroise Thomas's Mignon at both the Teatro Filodrammatico in Milan and the Teatro Coccia in Novara. In 1891 he sang the role of Turiddu in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana opposite the famous primadonna Hariclea Darclée as Santuzza at the Romanian National Opera. That same year he had an enormous successes as the title hero in Mascagni's L'amico Fritz at the opera's premieres in Mantua, Faenza and Palermo. In 1892 he made his Covent Garden debut as Nadir in Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles and sang the role of Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata . Created the role of Chevalier des Grieux in the world premiere of Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the Teatro Regio di Torino singing opposite Cesira Ferrani ,they reprised their roles at Manon Lescaut's La Scala premiere and sang opposite each other in the world premiere of Alberto Franchetti's Il fior d'Alpe as Paolo and Maria. He appeares in rome , Buenos Aires , Madrid and Monte Carlo. He joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in 1900 where he sang roles with the company for two seasons. He made his American debut with the company as Cavaradossi in the American premiere of Puccini's Tosca His many roles included Enzo in La Gioconda, Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, and Arturo in I puritani, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Lyonel in Martha, Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, and Faust in Mefistofele. In 1902 he returned to Italy where he sang Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Jean Gaussin in Sapho, and the role of Stolzing in the Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. His last performance, as Le Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet's Manon in his home city of Cremona, was just a few days before his sudden death in 1903.

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Sybil Sanderson as Thais "Thais" Massenet CREATOR ROLE SYBIL SANDERSON (December 7, 1864 – May 16, 1903) American Soprano Born in Sacramento, California, in the United States. After her fathers death in 1886, she and her mother and sisters moved back to Paris and became transplanted socialites. Sanderson proved to be a remarkably gifted singer and began to appear on the stages of the Opéra-Comique, and later Opéra, in Paris, most notably in the works of Jules Massenet.She was his favorite soprano . Her professional debut took place in Paris in the title role in Esclarmonde). She created Esclarmonde by Massenet, on May 14, 1889 , Phryné by Saint-Saëns on May 24, 1893 and Thaïs by Massenet on March 16, 1894 . She was also a famous interpreter of Manon, Massenet's most enduring opera. She recreated the role of Manon. Sanderson was also admired by Camille Saint-Saëns, who wrote the title role in Phryné for her. Success outside of Paris was elusive for Sanderson; she appeared at Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera (debut in title role of Manon on January 16, 1895, the last performance as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette on December 31, 1901) .

Sybil Sanderson as Thais "Thais" Massenet CREATOR ROLE SYBIL SANDERSON (December 7, 1864 – May 16, 1903) American Soprano Born in Sacramento, California, in the United States. After her fathers death in 1886, she and her mother and sisters moved back to Paris and became transplanted socialites. Sanderson proved to be a remarkably gifted singer and began to appear on the stages of the Opéra-Comique, and later Opéra, in Paris, most notably in the works of Jules Massenet.She was his favorite soprano . Her professional debut took place in Paris in the title role in Esclarmonde). She created Esclarmonde by Massenet, on May 14, 1889 , Phryné by Saint-Saëns on May 24, 1893 and Thaïs by Massenet on March 16, 1894 . She was also a famous interpreter of Manon, Massenet's most enduring opera. She recreated the role of Manon. Sanderson was also admired by Camille Saint-Saëns, who wrote the title role in Phryné for her. Success outside of Paris was elusive for Sanderson; she appeared at Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera (debut in title role of Manon on January 16, 1895, the last performance as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette on December 31, 1901) .

ZELIE DE LUSSAN (21 December 1861 – 18 December 1949) American Soprano Zélie de Lussan was born in Brooklyn, New York, to French parents , her mother was a soprano ,training with her mother, de Lussan made her operatic début in 1884 in Boston, Massachusetts, as Arline in Balfe's The Bohemian Girl.Augustus Harris engaged her to appear in the first season under his management at Covent Garden, London, and as Carmen she made the part "peculiarly her own." In London her successes included Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and, in 1897, Musetta in London's first performances of La bohème. Her singing greatly impressed Queen Victoria, and she was more than once invited to sing at BaImoral and Windsor Castle In 1894 she made her début at the Metropolitan Opera as Carmen, and appeared there for three seasons in roles including Nannetta (Falstaff), Zerlina, and Nedda (Pagliacci). In 1910 she sang Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro in Thomas Beecham's Mozart season at His Majesty's Theatre .After her marriage in 1907 to the pianist Angelo Fronani she gradually retired, though she played Carmen as late as 1915

ANTON VAN ROOY (1 January 1870 - 28 November 1932) Dutch Bass-Baritone Born in Rotterdam, van Rooy studied with the famous voice teacher Julius Stockhausen in Frankfurt. He made his operatic debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 1897, singing Wotan in Der Ring des Nibelungen. The year 1898 saw his debuts in Berlin and at the Royal Opera House in London; and on 14 December that same year he sang for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, as Wotan in Die Walküre. He remained with the Met until 1908, during which time he was heard in all the leading baritone Wagnerian roles. Most notably, he created Amfortas in the American premiere of Parsifal in 1903. Four years later, he created the part of John the Baptist in the initial New York production of Richard Strauss's then controversial opera, Salome. Van Rooy also continued to sing regularly at Bayreuth until 1903, when he was banned by Cosima Wagner from any further performances at the festival, because the Met performances of Parsifal that he had participated in breached German copyright law. His appearances in London spanned the years 1898-1913. After leaving the Metropolitan Opera, van Rooy became the leading Wagnerian baritone of the Frankfurt Opera; but by this juncture his voice had deteriorated prematurely due to vigorous over-use and his willingness to sing roles with a higher range than was ideal for his sonorous instrument. Anton van Rooy died in Munich in 1932, at the age of 62.

MARIE BREMA (Mary Agnes Fehrmann) (28 February 1856 – 22 March 1925) English dramatic mezzo-soprano Began her vocal studied with George Henschel and continued her training with various vocal coaches .Made her stage deut at Oxford in 1891 as Adriana Lecouvreur . On 10 October 1891 (aged 35), taking her stage name from her father's birthplace her operatic debut was as Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni opposite Francesco Vignas At the Shaftsbury theater London .She also performed Orfeo . She was bought to the notice of Cosima Wagner and was invited to Bayreuth . She was the first english singer to appear at Bayreuth . She sang Ortrud (Lohengrin) Kundry (Parsifal) , She toured extensively in the USA , Her role included Brangane (Tristan & Isolde) , Brunhilde in ( Die Walkure & Gotterdammerung) , Fricka ( Rhiengold) After her retirement she became Director of The Manchester Royal College of Music

Fernand Francell as Vincent in "Mirielle" Gounod DEBUT ROLE FERNAND FRANCELL (Paris, 1880 – Paris, February 20, 1966). French Tenor He studied singing at the Paris Conservatoire. He made his debut in 11/9/1906 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris as Vincent in ‘’Mireille’’ of Gounod. In 1908 he sang at the Théâtre Gaîté Lyrique in Paris as Wilhelm Meister in ‘’Mignon’’ . He had a long career at the Opéra-Comique, where he appeared in a large number of premieres.In 1914 he appeared as Paco in the première of ‘’La vida breve’’ of de Falla; also in the premieres of the operas ‘’Le Bonhomme Jadis’’ Jacques-Dalcroze 1906, ‘’Fortunio’’ Messager 1907, ‘’La Habanéra’’ Raoul Laparra 1908, ‘’Chiquito’’ 1909 and ‘’La Danseuse de Pompéi’’ 1912 of Jean Nouguès, ‘’Le Mariage de Télémaque’’ Claude Terrasse 1910, ‘’Le voile du Bonheur’’ Charles Pons 1911 , ‘’Francesca da Rimini’’ of Franco Leoni . 1913. Performed mainly in France After his retirement from the stage he taught in at the Paris Conservatoire.

GEORGETTE LEBLANC-MAETERLINCK Tancarville, 08 February 1875 - 06.Le Cannet, 27 October 1941) French Soprano Sister of the writer Maurice Leblanc. Married the poet Maurice Maeterlinck. Created L'attaque du Moulin (Françoise) November 23, 1893. Also created Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Ariane). Carmen (Carmen) she sang for the opening of the third salle Favart on 05 December 1898] and Sapho (Fanny Legrand).