Francis Charles Coppicus


Francis Charles Coppicus was the general secretary of the Metropolitan Opera. He was the manager for Enrico Caruso, Feodor Chaliapin, and Maria Jeritza.

Biography

He was born on 9 March 1880 in Neheim, Germany.
On 8 May 1909 he married Maybelle Louise Hogan in Manhattan.
On March 16, 1915 he became a citizen of the United States.
In 1916 he founded the Metropolitan Music Bureau. In 1930 six small concert bureaus merged into Columbia Artists Management.
He died on 8 June 1966 in Mill Valley, California.