Paul Franke as Nick the Barkeep Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon

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Paul Franke as Nick the Barkeep in Puccini's La Fanciculla del West
Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon
Paul
Walter
Franke
(December 23, 1917, Boston – July 21, 2011, Queens) was an American operatic
tenor
who specialized in the comprimario repertoire. He had a very long association with the Metropolitan Opera, where he performed nearly 2000 times from 1948 ….
Louis Mélançon
(1901-1974) was the in-house
photographer
for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.
Gladys Kriese as Mary in Wagner's Der Fliegende Hollander.  Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon
The American mezzo-soprano
Gladys Kriese-Caporale
was born on January 11, 1931.
Gladys Kriese studied singing with Doris Mills Lewis in Winnipeg between 1947 and 1952 and then with Sidney Dietch in New York.
On December 22, 1961, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in New York in the party of the voice of Antonia's mother.
Until 1966 she performed at the Met in 164 performances in parties such as Schwertleite in 'Die Walküre', Dryade in 'Ariadne auf Naxos' by Richard Strauss, Berta in 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia', un Pastore in 'Tosca', the Herbergierster in 'Boris Godoenov', Flosshilde and the 1.
Norn in 'Götterdämmerung', 3.
Lady in 'Die Zauberflöte', Marthe in 'Faust' by Gounod, Magdalene in 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg', Teresa in 'La Sonnambula', Larina in 'Yevgeny Onjegin', Marcellina in 'Le Nozze di Figaro', Annina in 'Der Rosenkavalier', Mary in 'Der fliegende Holländer' and La Comtesse di Coigny in 'Andrea Chénier' by Giordano. She died in 2007
Louis Mélançon
(1901-1974) was the in-house
photographer
for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.