Charles Strine

Charles William Strine (January 4, 1867 – April 6, 1907) was an American theatrical and opera manager best known for arranging the national tours and residencies of the Metropolitan Opera Company under the direction of Maurice Grau and Heinrich Conried.

In 1904 he was engaged as associate manager of the Tivoli Opera House in San Francisco,[3][4] and the following year he assumed responsibility for the highly successful (and lucrative) San Francisco residency of the Metropolitan Opera company, under the direction of Heinrich Conried.

[3][6] He left Bernhardt in 1906 to undertake management of the cross-county tour of the Conried Metropolitan Opera Company.

He was in Boston, preparing a spring tour by the Conreid Metropolitan Opera Company, when he had an attack of appendicitis.

Strine died April 6, 1907, at Boothby Hospital in Boston, a week after unsuccessful surgery.