An early portrait photograph of Ethel Smyth taken in New York when she attended the first U.S performance of her opera, 'Der Wald' at the Metropolitan Opera House. The headline in the New York Times (12th March 1903) reports on, 'A Disappointing Novelty ('Der Wald') followed by a Brilliant revival of II Trovatore'. The studio of Aime Dupont, 574, Fifth Avenue because official photographers for the Metropolitan Opera in the late 1880s.