Stückgold, Grete (née Schneidt)
Stückgold, Grete (née Schneidt)
Stückgold, Grete (née Schneidt), German soprano; b. London (of a German father and an English mother), June 6, 1895; d. Falls Village, Conn., Sept. 13, 1977. She studied voice with Jacques Stückgold whom she married (divorced in 1928); later married Gustav Schützendorf. She commenced her career as a concert and oratorio singer; made her operatic debut in Nuremberg in 1917; joined the Berlin State Opera in 1922. On Nov. 2, 1927, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in N.Y. as Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; she continued to make appearances there until 1939; also sang in San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Chicago. She later taught voice at Bennington (Vt.) Coll.
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