To Read More About the Life of Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink
129118 SCHUMANN-HEINK THE LAST OF THE TITANS BY MARY LAWTON New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 193J COPYRIGHT, 1926, 1927, BY INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY, INC. COPYRIGHT, igjS, By MARY LAXVTON. Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 19,28. New Edition, October. 1929. Reissued May, i<M5- Printed in tJtf United States flf Amfrteo fry J. J. I.ITTI.R AND IVFS OMI\NV, NKW V"KK TO WILLIAM F. BIGELOW, ESQ., WITH APPRECIATION OF HIS UNFAILING COURTESY AND FRIENDSHIP LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Mmc. Schumann -Heink frontispiece FACE Schumaiin-Hcink's Mother and Father 6 . Schumann-Heink and her Mother . 8 The Rope-Maker's House where Schumann-Heink lived when a little girl 10 Schumann-Heink when a child 15 Marietta von Lcclair, 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-Heink's 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 in the opera, "Die Fledermaus" ... 97 Schumann-Heink as Fides in Le Prophete 99 Schumann-Heink as Jehan dc Saintre 103 Die Wilde Toni. Schumann-Heink, Hallenstein, Schumann 109 [vii] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Paul Schumann, Schumann-Heink's second husband 119 Maurice Grau, manager of the Metropolitan Opera Com- pany in the nineties .
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