Heinrich Conried | |
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| General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera | |
| In office 1903–1908 | |
| Preceded by | Maurice Grau |
| Succeeded by | Giulio Gatti-Casazza |
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| Born | September 3, 1855 Bielitz, Austrian Silesia |
| Died | April 27, 1909 (aged 53) Merano, Italy |
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Heinrich Conried (September 3, 1855 – April 27, 1909) was an Austrian and naturalized American theatrical manager and director. Beginning his career as an actor in Vienna, he took his first post as theater director at the Stadttheater Bremen in 1876. In 1878 he relocated to New York City where he remained for the rest of his career, serving initially as director of the Germania Theatre (1878-1881), followed by posts at the Thalia Theatre (1881-1882), New York Concert Company (1882-1883), and the Irving Place Theatre (1883-1903)[1] In 1903 he became director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, a post he remained in until his retirement in 1908.[2]
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Homans, James E., ed. (1918). . The Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: The Press Association Compilers, Inc.
- ^ Joseph Horowitz (2012). Moral Fire: Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle. University of California Press. pp. 78, 106.
