FREMSTAD, OLIVE

operatic singer: 6. Stockholm, Sweden from whence she emigrated with her parents to the United States at the age of ten. They settled in Minneapolis, where she taught music. She also gave musical instruction in Duluth, Chicago and New York City. In 1892 she went to Germany and studied voice-culture under Lilli Lehmann in Berlin. Her debut as a vocalist was made in 1898 in Cologne, when she appeared in Il Trovatore. Afterwards she sang at Munich and Covent Garden, London. In 1903 began her long a ociation with the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, where she created the part of Salome in Strau ’s opera of that name, being also the first to enact that role in Paris. Her repertory embraced a wide range, including the leading roles in Wagner’s operas.