Louise Homer as Marina in "Boris Godounow" (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Louise Homer as Marina in "Boris Godounow"
[1913]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows contralto Louise Homer (1871-1947) as Marina in the
Metropolitan Opera premiere of Boris Godunov, March 1913 (Source:
Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11808
Call Number: LC-B2- 2547-5
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pennylrichardsca (51 months ago | reply)
www.cantabile-subito.de/Contraltos/Homer__Lou ise/haupttei...
Louise Homer (1871-1947) was a Pittsburgh-born contralto working in the 1910s. She retired from the opera in 1919. She was also the mother of six children, and the aunt of composer Samuel Barber.
Noël Zia Lee (51 months ago | reply)
Louise starred as Marina in the first American production of Boris Godounow at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC in 1913. Interestingly, the Victor Book of Opera shows a different woman in this same costume with the caption "Homer as Marina."
Also in the cast were Paul Althouse as Dimitri, Adamo Didur as Godounow, Anna Case as Theodore, Maria Duchene as the nurse, and Leonora Sparkes as Xenia.
The Library of Congress (51 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the additional information on Louise Homer.
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Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (21 months ago | reply)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Homer
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