This opened May 6, 1912 at the New Amsterdam Theatre and ran for 64 performances. The popular air from this work, Oh Promise Me, is still heard frequently at weddings today. During her Metropolitan career in 1912, Bella Alten married Hermann Deri, an Austrian State Banker, and became Bella Alten-Deri. She returned to Vienna and continued to sing at both the Wiener Hofoper and Volksoper. She gave concerts and radio broadcasts as late as 1936. When the Nazis came to power in Austria, she and her husband moved to London where she died December 31, 1962 following her husband's death in 1941. References 1877 births 1962 deaths Polish operatic sopranos 20th-century Polish women opera singers People from the Province of Posen 19th-century Polish women opera singers Emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss