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Ralph Edmunds was the publicity director for the Metropolitan Opera.

Giulio Gatti-Casazza (LoC note spelling, one "s") was the GM of the Metropolitan.

Adamo Didur was a Polish opera singer (bass) at the Metropolitan.

The other photos in the 4216 series are of the Wilhelm Stengel funeral in May 1917. Didur and Gatti-Casazza were both pallbearers.

Thanks Seuss. for their full names and connecting it back to the other photos. We'll update the catalog record.

Frances Alda (1879-1952) was an opera singer, born Fanny Jane Davis in New Zealand; she married promoter Giulio Gatti-Casazza in 1910, and they divorced in 1928. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Alda en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Gatti-Casazza

Brilliant !

Thanks so much for your research pennylrichardsca. We'll fill in the names the next time we update the record.

Looks like part of the set taken at tenor Luca Botta's funeral on Oct. 3, 1917. Giulio Gatti-Casazza ( 1869 – 1940) was general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City (1908-1935).

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Alfred Frederick Seligsberg (1869-1933) was legal counsel to the Met. Picasso drew him, with Diaghilev, in 1917:
www.wikiart.org/en/pablo-picasso/portrait-of-diaghilev-an...

from his Times obituary in 1933:
A. SELIGSBERG DIES; LAWYER FOR OPERA; Represented the Metropolitan and R. H. Macy & Co. for Many Years. WAS CARUSO'S COUNSEL Widely Known Figure in Musical Life of City Succumbs In His Sleep at Age of 63.

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Thank you for pulling together the pieces of the puzzle for these various photos related to Botta's funeral, Art Siegel and Richard Norton. We will add info to all the photos of the day.