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American mezzo-soprano Marie Mattfeld began her singing career in 1897 with the Damrosch-Ellis Opera Company which boasted a roster consisting of Nordica, Melba, Bispham, Gadski, Campanari, Fischer and Kraus.
In 1901 she joined the Metropolitan Opera. She specialized in supporting roles, singing with some of the greatest singers of that era. She logged nearly 900 performances during her twenty-two seasons there.
Mattfeld is shown here as Hänsel which she performed 76 times, and the Shepherd in Tannhäuser, which she sang only 4 times. Her most performed role, which was vocally unlike either of these, was that of Turridu's mother,
Lucia, in Cavalleria Rusticana. Copyright 1907

fonte: historicopera.com