Editing Metropolitan Opera (section)

===Abbey, Schoeffel, and Grau===
Italian opera returned to the Met in 1891 in a glittering season of stars organized by the returning [[Henry E. Abbey]], [[John B. Schoeffel]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1918/09/01/archives/john-b-schoeffel-dies-in-boston-at-72-veteran-manager-once-directed.html|title=Obituary: John B. Schoeffel Dies in Boston at 72|date=September 1, 1918|url-access=subscription|access-date=January 17, 2018|newspaper=The New York Times|archive-date=February 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223051132/https://www.nytimes.com/1918/09/01/archives/john-b-schoeffel-dies-in-boston-at-72-veteran-manager-once-directed.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Maurice Grau]]<ref name="GRAU">[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/03/15/106744032.pdf Untitled obituary:] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719175552/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/03/15/106744032.pdf |date=July 19, 2021 }} ''The New York Times'', March 15, 1907</ref> as [[Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau]]. After missing a season to rebuild the opera house following a fire in August 1892 which destroyed most of the theater, Abbey and Grau continued as co-managers along with John Schoeffel as the business partner, initiating the so-called "Golden Age of Opera". Most of the greatest operatic artists in the world then graced the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in Italian as well as German and French repertory. Notable among them were the brothers [[Jean de Reszke|Jean]] and [[Édouard de Reszke]], [[Lilli Lehmann]], [[Emma Calvé]], [[Lillian Nordica]], [[Nellie Melba]], [[Marcella Sembrich]], [[Milka Ternina]], [[Emma Eames]], [[Sofia Scalchi]], [[Ernestine Schumann-Heink]], [[Francesco Tamagno]], [[Francesc Viñas]], Jean Lassalle, [[Mario Ancona]], [[Victor Maurel]], [[Antonio Scotti]] and [[Pol Plançon]]. Henry Abbey died in 1896,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1896/10/18/archives/death-of-henry-e-abbey-the-wellknown-managers-long-career-closed-he.html|title=Death of Henry E. Abbey|date=October 18, 1896|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=January 17, 2018|page=25|url-access=subscription|archive-date=February 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223051627/https://www.nytimes.com/1896/10/18/archives/death-of-henry-e-abbey-the-wellknown-managers-long-career-closed-he.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and Maurice Grau continued as sole manager of the Met from 1896 to 1903.<ref name="GRAU" />

The early 1900s saw the development of distinct Italian, German and later French "wings" within the Met's roster of artists including separate German and Italian choruses. This division of the company's forces faded after World War II when solo artists spent less time engaged at any one company.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}