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The Mapleson Cylinders - Program Notes
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Camille Seygard
, French soprano, made her Metropolitan
Opera debut as Grimgerde in Walküre on January
13, 1902, and remained with the company for three seasons. (She had appeared at
the Metropolitan Opera House in 1898 with the Damrosch-Ellis Opera, singing
Urbain in Huguenots and Eva in Meistersinger. ) During 1902-03, her most important season with the
company, Seygard sang four Carmens, the Shepherd in Tannhäuser, Desdemona, Musetta, Urbain, Helmwige, the Forest Bird in
Siegfried, Nedda, Woglinde, the First Lady in
The Magic Flute, and Marguerite. Of her four
Marguerites, three were in New York, as replacement of the indisposed Emma
Eames. In the fall 1901 tour, Seygard had substituted fourteen times for either
Eames, Calvé, Scheff, or Sibyl Sanderson (once in the middle of
Manon ). For the season of thirty-seven performances
and two concerts, she received $3,324.50. HUGUENOTS (Urbain): Side 2/Band 3
WALKÜRE (Helmwige): Side 10/Bands 5-8
