d'Anjou_ (Meyerbeer), _La Vestale_ (Spontini), _L'Étoile du Nord_, _Il Trovatore_, _Ernani, Jaguarita_ (Halévy), _Martha_ and _Rigoletto_. Of these _Il Furioso_, _L'Elisir d'Amore_, _Les Martyrs_ and _Le Prophète_ were given for the first time in America. M. Boudousquie opened the New Orleans Opera House with a brilliant company which included Mathieu (tenor), Melchisedes (baritone), Genebrel (basso), and Feitlinger (soprano). He presented _Le Pardon de Ploërmel_ for the first time in New Orleans and put on a number of operas already familiar to the city, including _Rigoletto_, with the novice Patti in the rôle of Gilda. The war naturally killed all operatic activities for the time being. Subsequently the New Orleans Opera House was reopened with a strolling company managed by the Alhaiza brothers. In 1866 a splendid company gathered together by the Alhaizas in France was drowned on the voyage to America in the wreck of the _Evening Star_. A surviving brother opened with an Italian troupe, and since then the New Orleans Opera House has continued its functions, with occasional interruptions, _per varios casus per tot discrimina rerum_. Italian, German and English companies have been heard there from time to time, but on the whole it has remained a thoroughly French house directed by French managers and presenting opera in the French tongue. Its principal artists have been selected from among the best on the contemporary French stage and have included many singers of world-wide reputation. For years it has been the custom of the house to change its singers every season, and on that account it would be impossible to enumerate here the list of distinguished artists who have appeared on its boards. Mention may be made, however, of such well-known names as Devoyed, Durnestre, Ambre, Tournie, Levelli, Pical, Michat, Orlius, Etelka Gerster, Fursch-Madi, Paulin, Baux, Mounier, Deo, Feodor, Albers and Maurice Renaud. The following operas have been given in New Orleans for the first time from 1866 to 1914, inclusive: _Crispino e la Comare_, _Faust_, _Un Ballo in Maschera_, _Petrella's Ione_, _Linda di Chamouni_, _L'Africaine_, Gounod's _Romeo et Juliette_, Donizetti's _Don Sebastian_, _Der fliegende Holländer_, _Lohengrin_ (in Italian), _Fidelio_ (in Italian), _Tannhäuser_ (in Italian), _Aïda_, _Carmen_, _Mefistofele_ (in Italian), _Paul et Virginie_, _Mireille_ (in Italian), _Les Petits Mousquetaires_ (first time in America), Planquette's _Rip Van Winkle_, Gounod's _Le Tribut de Zamora_ (first time in America), Thomas's _Le Songe d'une nuit d'eté_, Lalo's _Le roi d'Ys_ (first time in America), _Le Cid_, _Sigurd_ (first time in America), _Cavalleria rusticana_ (in English), _Hérodiade_ (first time in America), _Samson et Dalila_ (first time in America), _Lakmé_, _Esclarmonde_ (first time in America), _Manon_, _Les Pécheurs de Perles_, _Werther_ (first time in America), Salvayre's _Richard III_