Chapter IX First Season at the Metropolitan
The First Season at the Metropolitan Opera House
Mr. Abbey’s Singers
Gounod’s “Faust” and Christine Nilsson
Marcella Sembrich and Her Versatility
Sofia Scalchi
Signor Kaschmann
Signor Stagno
Ambroise Thomas’s “Mignon”
Madame Fursch-Madi
Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda”