Eleanor Robson Belmont

Actress

Female

Born Dec 13, 1879

Hometown Wigan

Died Oct 24, 1979

Death Place Manhattan, New York

Eleanor Robson Belmont was an English actress and prominent public figure in the United States. George Bernard Shaw wrote Major Barbara for her, but contractual problems prevented her from playing the role. Mrs. Belmont was involved in the Metropolitan… Read More

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August Belmont, Jr.
Married

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Marilyn Horne To Be Honored At Metropolitan Opera Luncheon, 10/31 Broadway World
Google News - Aug 25, 2011

Last year, the Guild's own 75th anniversary, including the organization's pioneering founder, Eleanor Belmont, was saluted at the luncheon. In recent seasons, the Guild's luncheon has paid tribute to such beloved artists as Frederica von Stade,
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Puccini For The People: The Met's Free Lunch
NYTimes - Sep 23, 2006

Playing Friday at the Metropolitan Opera: ''Madame Anomaly.'' Operagoers sat cross-legged on the red-carpeted floor of the grand tier, eating bag lunches. Patrons nestled into $375 seats free. People wandered across the stage, snapping pictures. It was open house at the Met, when the hoary and staid home of grand opera allowed the unwashed rabble
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Linda Chin Is Wed To David Krawitz
NYTimes - Sep 22, 1986

Linda Chin and David Krawitz were married yesterday at the Metropolitan Opera House. Acting Justice Harold Tompkins of State Supreme Court in the Bronx officiated in the room named after the late Eleanor Belmont, the bridegroom's godmother. The bride, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. You Yin Chin of Bayside, Queens, graduated from Yale College and
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World Of Opera Celebrates Met Guild's 50 Years
NYTimes - Nov 04, 1985

The Central Opera Service helped celebrate the 50-year past of the Metropolitan Opera Guild over the weekend by talking about opera's next half-century. From the opera houses big and small in this country, and from a few in Europe, as well, managers, musicians, composers, fund-raising experts and journalists in the hundreds gathered at the Sheraton
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CHILDHOOD

1879 Birth She was born on 13 December 1879 in Wigan, Lancashire to Madge Carr Cook and Charles Robson, and moved to the United States as a young girl.

TWENTIES

1900 20 Years Old Her stage career began at age 17 in San Francisco and she worked in stock companies from Honolulu to Milwaukee before making her New York debut in 1900 as Bonita, the ranchman's daughter in Augustus Thomas's Arizona. … Read More

THIRTIES

1910 30 Years Old She retired when she wed August Belmont, Jr. on February 26, 1910. … Read More

FIFTIES

1933 53 Years Old Mrs. August Belmont, as she thereafter was known, joined the Metropolitan Opera's Board of Directors in 1933, founded the Metropolitan Opera Guild in 1935 and the National Council of the Metropolitan Opera in 1952. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1979 100 Years Old Mrs. Belmont died in her sleep in Manhattan on 24 October 1979.

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