Word: gadski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nnhildes who followed Lehmann Milka Ternina, a Croat, was easily next best. Lilian Nordica from Farmington, Me. sang better than she acted. Olive Fremstad's impersonation was abundant with feeling but often uncontrolled. Johanna Gadski sang so long past her prime that her first excellent performances grew dim in memory. The current outstanding Brünnhildes are Frida Leider and Gertrude Kappel. Both give the rôle its true heroic proportions but their voices are no longer young...
...House started its career in 1875. Beer flavored the performances there but, alternating light opera and grand, the house managed to keep open all year round-an achievement never equaled in the U. S. The Metropolitan Opera visited San Francisco three times-with Calve, Melba, Eames, Schumann-Heink, Fremstad, Gadski, Sembrich. Caruso, the de Reszkes. Early one morning during the third visit the earth started rumbling and quaking, knocked the entire company out of bed, frightened Enrico Caruso so badly that even though he was offered $25,000 he would not go back to 'Frisco...
Died. Johanna Gadski, 59, famed Wagnerian soprano, of a fractured skull received in an automobile crash; in Berlin. German-born, she was brought to the J. S. by Walter Damrosch in 1895 and, though young and inexperienced, was acclaimed by Manhattan. In recent years she toured the U. S. with the German Grand Opera Company, a mediocre organization which her rich young idolizer Geraldine Hall Bangs, Manhattan socialite, subsidized so that Gadski could go on singing in opera. Mrs. Bangs was driving the car which crashed last week with a Berlin trolley. She and Captain Hans Tauscher, Gadski...
...stage traps. In St. Paul, when the German Grand Opera visited there last year, the Grane was Daisy, a local two-ton, snow-white mare who earns her living regularly by pulling a milkwagon. Daisy looked the part admirably but she objected to the singing of Soprano Johanna Gadski, balked, tried to bite. Last week grumpy Daisy had her punishment. Despite financial difficulties met with on the Pacific Coast, the Germans are returning to St. Paul, will again give Götterdämmerung. Daisy has been re-engaged to sing Grane but this time she is being rehearsed...