in Roméo et Juliette by Gounod (with Beniamino Gigli in the main role), Mallika in Lakmé by Léo Delibes, Preziosilla in La forza del destino by Verdi (Caruso was the star) Féodor in Boris Godunov by Moussorgsky (with Chaliapin). Irma in Louise by Gustave Charpentier She sang leading roles in several Met creations: Don Ella in Francesca da Rimini by Riccardo Zandonai (1916), Tyltyl in L'oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird) by Albert Wolff, based upon work by Maurice Maeterlinck (1919), Annette in The Polish Jew by Karel Weis (1862–1944) (1921), Juliet in Die tote Stadt by Erich Korngold, based upon Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach (1922), Lehl in The Snow Maiden by Rimsky-Korsakov (1922) Kaled in Le roi de Lahore by Jules Massenet (1924) References Further reading A. Van den Abeele, Louis Thomas, biography (unpublished) Harvard University (USA), Howard D. Rothschild Papers, Correspondence of Delaunois with Rothschild and Geraldine Farrar. National archives of Québec in Montréal, Wilfrid Pelletier Papers. Karl-Josef Kutsch and Leo Riemens, Großes Sängerlexikon, K. G. Saur, Bern/München, 1997, Band 2, p 823. 1885 births 1984 deaths 20th-century Belgian women opera singers Operatic mezzo-sopranos