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Putnam GriswoldAmerican bass-baritone Putnam Griswold (1874-1914) studied with Randegger in London and Jacques Bouhy in Paris. He made his operatic debut (1901) at Covent Garden as Renato in the premiere of Stanford's Much Ado About Nothing. Although he made reappearances in London, his longest contract was with the Royal Opera in Berlin (1906-1911), where he was considered one of the greatest foreign interpreters of the Wagner bass roles. In 1911 he toured several German cities before sailing to New York to make his Metropolitan Opera debut (23 Nov 1911) as Hagen in Götterdämmerung (seen here). He sang in the world premiere Damrosch's Cyrano de Bergerac (1913). He remained at the Metropolitan for three seasons. His last performance there (8 Feb 1914) was a Wagner concert twenty days before his death. He died during an appendicitis operation. |