Teresa Stratas Cyril Richard Theodor Uppman Metropolitan Opera Photo

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Teresa Stratas, Cyril Richard, Theodor Uppman in Offenbach's La Perichole. Metropolitan Opera Photo
Teresa Stratas
, OC (born May 26, 1938 in Toronto, Ontario), is a retired operatic soprano from Canada of Greek descent. She is especially well known for her award-winning recording of Alban Berg's Lulu.
Cyril Joseph Trimnell-Ritchard (1 December 1898 – 18 December 1977), known professionally as
Cyril Ritchard
, was an
Australian stage, screen and television actor, and director
.
He is best remembered today for his performance as Captain Hook in the Mary Martin musical production of Peter Pan. In 1945, he played Gabriele Eisenstein in Gay Rosalinda at the Palace theatre in London, a version of Strauss's Die Fledermaus by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in which he appeared with Peter Graves. The show was conducted by Richard Tauber and ran for almost a year.
Theodor Uppman
(12 January 1920 – 17 March 2005) was an American operatic baritone.
heodor Uppman was an American operatic baritone. He is best known for his creation of the title role in Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd. Uppman, of Swedish descent, was born in San Jose, California, and studied voice at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and privately with Beverley Peck Johnson in New York City. He made his professional debut in 1941 with the Northern California Symphony Orchestra. His career was sparked by his 1947 concert performance as Pelléas in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Monteux, and Maggie Teyte as Mélisande. He soon reprised the role with the New York City Opera in 1948 and in his debut with the Metropolitan Opera on 27 November 1953.
Louis Mélançon
(1901-1974) was the in-house
photographer
for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.