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Olive Fremstad phonograph records, 1900-1906
- Title
- Olive Fremstad phonograph records, 1900-1906
- Identifier
- P0992
- Date
- 1900-1906
- Creator
- Fremstad, Olive, 1871-1951
- Description
- Recordings of operatic arias made by a soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York, who was born in Stockholm, Sweden, of Norwegian and Swedish parentage. The family lived in Norway, and in the early 1880s emigrated to Minnesota. Fremstad taught music in Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago, and New York where she also studied. IN 1892 she went to Germany to study and made her debut in the Cologne Opera House in 1898. She was a leading soprano for the Metropolitan Opera House from 1903-1918, where she sang all the principal Wagnerian roles as well as many in French and Italian.
- Extent
- 2 items
- Language
- English, Italian
- Type
- Phonographs
Collection
Citation
Fremstad, Olive, 1871-1951, “Olive Fremstad phonograph records, 1900-1906,” Norwegian American Historical Association, accessed October 17, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/12109.