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Originally written as a humorless grande dame, Schafer worked with the writers to create a character not unlike the scatterbrain roles played in 1930s films by Mary Boland and Billie Burke.
Born in a rich Jewish family,(a relative of the U.S. journalist Joseph Pulitzer), Serena was known for being a beauty in her youth and later a Grande Dame.
The opera premiered at the John Street Theatre, New York, on 3 March 1794 and featured the English actress and 'grande dame' of American theatre, Charlotte Melmoth.