(first time in America), _Die Walküre_ (in German), _Siegfried_ (in German), _Tristan und Isolde_ (in German), _Die Götterdämmerung_ (in German), _La Navarraise_, _Benvenuto Cellini_, _I Pagliacci_, _La Reine de Saba_ (first time in America), _Reyer's Salammbo_ (first time in America), _Godard's La Vivandière_, _La Vie de Bohême_, _La Giaconda_, _Cendrillon_ (first time in America), _Messaline_, Verdi's _Otello_ (in English), _Tosca_ (in English), _Parsifal_ (in German), _Siberia_ (first time in America), _L'Amico Fritz_, Cilea's _Adrienne Lecouvreur_ (first time in America), _Madam Butterfly_ (in English), _Fedora_ (in Italian), _Louise_, _Le Jongleur de Notre Dame_, _Hänsel und Gretel_, _Thaïs_, _L'Attaque du Moulin_, Leroux's _Le Chemineau_ (first time in America), _Don Quichotte_ (first time in America), _Quo Vadis_, _Sappho_, Saint-Saëns' _Phryne_, and Bizet's _L'Arlésienne_ (first time in America). III Historically the French opera in New Orleans is of great importance for its influence on the operatic development of other cities. This is especially true of Philadelphia, which was introduced to opera by the New Orleans organization in 1827. Philadelphia, of course, was already familiar with the English ballad opera and it had heard a diluted English version of _Der Freischütz_ in 1825, but of opera in its real sense it was still quite innocent. The New Orleans company which appeared at the Chestnut Street Theatre in 1827 returned each succeeding season until 1834. The following list of operas produced by them may be of interest: _Le petit Chaperon rouge_, _Joconde_, _Robin des Bois_ (_Der Freischütz_), _Azema_, _La Dame blanche_, _Le Maçon_, _Werther_, _Thérèse_, _Rendezvous bourgeois_, _Le Solitaire_, _La fète du village voisin_, _Adolphe et Clare_, _Les voitures versées_, _Les Visitandines_, _Le nouveau seigneur de village_, _Cendrillon_, _Les Folles amoureuses_, _Aline_, _Moses in Egypt_, _La Vestale_, _Jean de Paris_, _Trente ans de la vie d'un joueur_, _Fiorella_, _La Fiancée_, _Gulistan_, _La Caravane de Cairo_, _La Dame du lac_, _Le Calife de Bagdad_, _Comte Ory_, _La Muette de Portici_, _Fra Diavolo_, _Guillaume Tell_, _Le Barbier de Séville_, _La Clochette_, _La Gazza Ladra_, _Le Petit Matelot_, _La pie Voleuse_, _La Jeune Prude_, _Zampa_, _Jean_, _Rossignol_, _Le Philtre_, _La Tour de Nesle_. The Montressor Troupe, an Italian company, appeared at the Chestnut Street Theatre in 1833 and gave Philadelphia its first taste of Italian opera, presenting _Il Pirata_, _Italiani in Algieri_, _La Cenerentola_, Rossini's _Otello_, and Mercadante's _Elisa e Claudio_.