Mary Peltz

Bio

(1896-1981) Poet, critic, writer. Mary Peltz was born in and died in New York. She was the founder and an editor of The Opera News.

Full Name

Mary Peltz

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

1896

Mary Ellis Opdycke was born in New York on May 4, 1896.

1920

Ms. Peltz studied at the Spence School and graduated from Barnard College in 1920.

1939

Metropolitan Opera Guide
The Modern Library

Nonfiction written with Robert Lawrence.

1950

Behind the Gold Curtain: The Story of the Metropolitan Opera, 1883-1950
Farrar Straus and Company
1135692548 / 978-1135692544
Nonfiction.

1953

Accents On Opera
New York: Farrar, Straus & Young

Nonfiction written with Boris Goldovsky.

1960

The Magic Of The Opera: A Picture Memoir Of The Metropolitan
Praeger
1135209650 / 978-1135209650
Nonfiction with photography by Gjon Mili.

1981

Mary Ellis Peltz died in New York on October 24, 1981.

1981

Mary Ellis Peltz was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

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