 The following year he created the role of Meïamoun in the world premiere of Henry Kimball Hadley's "Cleopatra's Night".He sang in several United States premieres at the Met, including starring turns in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Die tote Stadt" (1921, opposite Maria Jeritza) and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Snow Maiden" (1922, as the Tsar).He also performed the role of Julien in the Met's first staging of Gustave Charpentier's "Louise" in January 1921 with Geraldine Farrar in the title role.