Among his most noteworthy performances were the first run of "Le maschere" (following Mascagni's own first production), the inaugural British production of Italo Montemezzi's "L'amore dei tre re" (1914), the world premiere of Francis Poulenc's "Il trittico" at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918, and the world premiere of Joseph Carl Breil's "The Legend", also at the Metropolitan Opera, in 1920.