Johanna Gadski by Aime Dupont

JOHANNA GADSKI
(15 June 1872 – 22 February 1932)
German Soprano
Studied in Stettin. Debut Berlin as Undine "Undine" Tchaikovsky .appearanced in the works of Wagner's at the 1899 Bayreuth Festival and at the 1905/06 Munich Festival.
American debut in New York in 1895 with the Damrosch Opera Company .In 1896 she created the role of Hester Prynne in the fully staged premiere of Walter Damrosch's opera The Scarlet Letter in Boston. Sang in London at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1906.She had also joined the star-studded roster of singers at the New York Metropolitan Opera, singing there from 1898 to 1904 and again from 1907 to 1917.At the height of World War I, however, she was obliged to resign from the Metropolitan Opera because of her German links. Gadski resumed her professional concert career in the United States in 1921. She did not return to the operatic stage, however, until the late 1920s; her first such appearance being in a 1928 production of Die Walküre mounted by the Washington National Opera, a semi-professional company not Thereafter, in the years 1929 to 1931, she toured as the star of the German Grand Opera Company