Schumann-Heink - The Last Of The Titans (Paperback)

MME. SCHUMANN-HEINK SCHUMANN-HEINK THE LAST OF THE TITANS BY MARY LAWTON New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1929 TO WILLIAM F. BIGELOW, ESQ., WITH APPRECIATION OF HIS UNFAILING COURTESY AND FRIENDSHIP LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Mme. Schumann-Heink Frontispiece Schumann-Heinks Mother and Father ... . 6 Schumann-Heink and her Mother . ., 8 The Rope-Makers House where Schumann-Heink lived when a little girl ... 10 Schumann-Heink when a child . 15 Marietta von Leclair, first singing teacher of Schumann-Heink 23 Schumann-Heink with her brother and two sisters . . 26 Schumann-Heink at seventeen 30 Schumann-Heink as a young woman 34 Schumann-Heink 43 As Azucena in II Trovatore, Schumann-Heinks first role in opera at Dresden in 1878 51 Karl Krebs 58 Schumann-Heink as Azucena in II Trovatore . 63 Schumann-Heink in one of her early roles in Hamburg . 69 Schumann-Heink as a young woman 74 Hans von Biilow, great conductor and pianist . .78 Schumann-Heink and Pol Plangon, the great French bari tone ... 82 Schumann-Heink in Hamburg days 87 Schumann-Heink as Carmen in Hamburg 94 Schumann-Heink as Orlofsky in Fledern ... .97 Schumann-Heink as Fides in Le Prophete 99 Schumann-Heink as Jehan de Saintre .... .103 Die Wilde Toni, Schumann-Heink, Hallenstein, Schumann 109 vii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Paul Schumann, Schumann-Heinks second husband 119 Maurice Grau, manager of the Metropolitan Opera Com pany in the nineties, ... 137 Schumann-Heink as Ortrud in Lohengrin 141 Schumann-Heink as Ortrud in Lohengrin, ., . 143 Mina, the faithful maid, with George Washington Schu mann right after his birth .... 149 Schumann-Heink as Waltraute in Gotterdammerung, one of her greatest roles . . 173 Lilli Lehmann, great German operasinger . ., 178 Schumann-Heink in Bayreuth . 181 Schumann-Heink as Telemachos in Odysseus, 185 Schumann-Heink in light opera in New York, Loves Lottery ........ 197 Schumann-Heinks Children. Left to right Walter, Henry, Charlotte, August, Hans seated ., 202 Lillian Nordica . ...... 215 Katharina Klafsky as Briinnhilde .... far tig 224 Amelia Materna 231 Marie Wilt .233 Edouard de Reszke as Mephistopheles in Faust, . . 239 Jean de Reszke as Tristan in Tristan and Isolde, . 241 Schumann-Heink as Erda in Siegfried 254 Cosima Wagner .261 Marcella Sembrich in The Daughter of the Regiment 292 Caruso in Rigoletto 296 Enrico Caruso as Canio in Pagliacci . ., . . 298 Schumann-Heink as witch in Hansel and Gretel . . 303 Schumann-Heink in Die Meistersinger, 313 Schumann-Heink as Magdalena in Die Meistersinger 315 Erda in Das Rheingold 317 Hans Richter ., 319 Richard Strauss . 323 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Schumann-Heink as Mary in Flying Dutchman . . . 328 Johannes Brahms 355 Gustav Mahler 359 Richard Wagner .... 364 Richard Wagner-Festspielhaus in Bayreuth . . . . 369 Wagners grave at Villa Wahnfried, Bayreuth . . .372 Anton Rubinstein 379 ix PART I