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We don't know exactly what it was that horrified Mrs. Herbert Satterlee at the final rehearsal of Richard Strauss's Salome at the Metropolitan Opera House, after church on Sunday afternoon, January 20, 1907. She never explained it in any form that has come down to us. She probably did not attend the premiere the following Tuesday night, after which the Met announced three further non-subscription performances, all of them quickly sold out. We do know, however, that after attending the Sunday dress rehearsal, she went in fury to her father. Her father was J. P. Morgan.
Morgan was a member of the board of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, and he ...