Riccardo Martin

Martin later completed his studies with Vincenzo Lombardi in Florence and Beniamino Carelli in Naples.

Two years later he made his American debut in New Orleans, singing with the visiting San Carlo Opera.

Martin bowed at the Metropolitan Opera on November 20, 1907, in Mefistofele; the performance also marked the American debut of Fyodor Chaliapin.

During his tenure at the Met, he created the lead tenor roles in three American operas: Walter Damrosch's Cyrano, Horatio Parker's Mona, and Frederick Shepherd Converse's The Pipe of Desire.

He first married in 1899, to Elfrida Hildegarde Klamroth, a fellow opera singer more widely known by the stage name Ruano Bogislav.