Word: fremstad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repertoire. Mrs. Leslie Carter was Zaza and Ada Rehan was the talk of the town as Sweet Nell of Old Drury. At the opera it was the "Golden Age." Sembrich was singing and Fames, Ternina, Melba and the de Reszkés. It was before the time of Caruso, Fremstad and Tetrazzini. It was way back in the year of the now grandmotherly Louise Homer and of the Viennese Fritzi Scheff...
There followed the Golden Age at the Metropolitan, with such singers as Nordica, Pol Plancon, Fremstad, the de Reszkes and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. But when Impresario Maurice Grau left, Schumann-Heink left too, went into a comic opera called Love's Lottery. Then it was that Schumann died, that she married her secretary William Rapp "for protection" for herself, eight children. Grand opera took her back. She made music history in Austria, Germany, France, England, the U. S. with her Frecka, Erda, Magdelena, Brangane, Walträute. She divorced Rapp. Then came the War. One son died for Germany...
...take the midsummer pilgrimage to bask in the glory of Richard Wagner. In the U. S. his glory spread more slowly. At first it was the matter of importing a great new musical idea, a new school of conductors, singers. There came the day then of Lehmann, of Ternina, Fremstad, Schumann-Heink, of Jean de Reszke, Anton Seidl, of Toscanini-and Wagner was indeed a Titan. There came the War, and German singers, German music were in disfavor, but Wagner grew even in exile. His operas crept back into the repertoire one by one until Lohengrin had arrived, Tannh...
...Soprano Gertrude Kappel who arrived recently from Munich, gave such beautiful performances of Isolde, of Brunnhilde in Walküre and Gotterdammerung as to make die-hards swallow their last struggling complaints of "no Wagnerian sopranos'' and set her down reverently as one of the Fremstad...