Wilfred Pelletier Music Collection, approximately 1917-1982.

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Wilfred Pelletier Music Collection, approximately 1917-1982.

Contains opera scores by Bellini, Montemezzi, Paisiello, Ponchielli, Puccini, Spontini, and Verdi; an English translation of the novel Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti; and catalogs of Ampico reproducing piano rolls.

1.08 cubic feet (4 boxes).

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Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

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The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as current general manager (2021). As of 2018, the company's current music director is Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The Met was founded in 1883 as an alternative to the previously established Academy of Music opera house, and debuted the same year in...

Pelletier, Wilfrid, 1896-1982

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Loti, Pierre, 1850-1923

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