Bella Alten operatic career included six Metropolitan premiere performances – Adele in Die Fledermaus (1905), Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel (1905), Saffi in Der Zigeunerbaron (1906), Olga in Fedora (1906), Columbina in Le Donne Curiose (1912), and Lisetta in L'amore Medico (1914). In November 1905 when she sang Gretel in the premiere Metropolitan performance of Hänsel und Gretel, the composer Engelbert Humperdinck was in the audience. This opera received 11 performances that first season and was selected by Theodore Roosevelt's wife as a benefit for the Legal Aid Society. Alten sang Gretel in this opera every season she was with the Met
NSEL case defaulters in the NSEL case. The brokers mis-sold NSEL products to their clients by assuring them fixed returns. The defaulters hypothecated stocks and produced fake warehouse receipts and siphoned the entire default money. Initially, it was projected that there were 13,000 trading clients affected by the NSEL crisis. The genuineness & entitlement of these 13,000 trading clients is questionable as NSEL & other authorities repeatedly asked its members/brokers to furnish the Know Your Customer (KYC) details of all 13,000 trading clients, but it has not been furnished. In fact, they vehemently opposed it. Even the high power committee of Mumbai