An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy's career.
1 August 1894, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA
7 March 1905, Manhattan, New York, USA
January 31, 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 December 1903, Temesvár, Austria-Hungary [now Timisoara, Romania]
10 July 1903
March 27, 1890 in Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]
10 November 1889, Camberwell, London, England, UK
July 20, 1885 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA
4 March 1907, New York City, New York, USA
August 15, 1900 in Monte, Italy
4 June 1899, South Dakota, USA
June 3, 1884 in Bonn, Germany
October 25, 1907 in Tripoli, Greece
9 January 1891, Manzaneda, Ourense, Galicia, Spain
8 April 1895, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
10 February 1912, Birmingham, England, UK
29 February 1920, Sacramento, California, USA
June 29, 1901 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA
October 13, 1887 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
August 24, 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
July 31, 1892 in Sydney, Australia
January 12, 1910 in Luray, Virginia, USA
August 6, 1881 in Los Angeles, California, USA
December 13, 1895 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
24 September 1889, Croswell, Michigan, USA
June 11, 1882 in Pulewik, Germany
11 March 1908, Italy
3 May 1898, Lisle, New York, USA
September 12, 1915 in The Bronx, New York, USA

