Women in Music Posters “F...-”
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Lola Falana, Photo

Lola Falana
b. 9-11-1942; Camden, NJ

Dancer Lola Falana, who was “discovered” by Sammy Davis, Jr., while she was dancing in a nightclub, went on to appear on Broadway, films, and TV. She has multiple sclerosis and no longer dances, spending her time on her ministry of helping children who have been orphaned in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Geraldine Farrar
b. 2-28-1882; Melrose, Massachusetts
d. 3-11-1967; Ridgefield, Connecticut (heart attack)

Soprano Geraldine Farrar was also a silent film actress with a following nicknamed the “Gerry-flappers”.

FYI - one of Farrar's voice teachers was Lilli Lehmann.

Eileen Farrell
b. 2-13-1920; Willimantic, Connecticut (raised in Woonsocket, RI)
d. 3-23-2002; Park Ridge, NJ

Soprano Eileen Farrell was popular singer on the opera stage, concert hall, radio and in movies (she provide voice for Eleanor Parker playing Majorie Lawrence in Interrupted Melody).

Suzanne Farrell
b. 8-16-1945; Cincinnati, OH

Suzanne Farrell, one of the most noted ballerinas of the 20th century, with a dancing career that spanned 28 years and a repertory of more than 100 ballets.

• A Midsummer Night's Dream posters

Kathleen Ferrier
b. 4-22-1912; Higher Walton, Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire, England
d. 10-8-1953; London, breast cancer

Contralto Kathleen Ferrier is remembered as a stage, concert and recording artist whose repertoire extended from folk songs and popular ballads to the works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar.

Ferrier's career was short - she didn't take up lessons until 1937 and died from breast cancer in 1953.

Ella Fitzgerald
b. 4-25-1918; Newport News, VA
d. 6-16-1996, Beverly Hills, CA

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Kirsten Flagstad
b. 7-12-1895; Norway
d. 12-7-1962; Oslo

Among the greatest singers of the 20th century, Kirsten Flagstad, was a dramatic soprano. Among her Wagnerian roles with Isolde in Tristan and Isolde, Gutrune in Götterdämmerung, and Sieglinde in Die Walküre.

Renee Fleming
b. 2-14-1959; Indiana, PA

Soprano Renée Fleming sang in opera and lieder.

Margot Fonteyn
b. 5-18-1919; England
d. 2-21-1991; Panama

Della Fox, 1897, Print

Della Fox
b. 10-13-1870; St. Louis, MO
d. 6-15-1913; NYC (buried in St. Louis)

Della Fox was a singing comedienne and actress in both musicals, operettas and vaudeville. She was so popular that her bobbed hair style, the “Della Fox curl” was imitated by girls throughout America.

Aretha Franklin, the Diva Giclee Print

Aretha Franklin
b. 3-25-1942; Memphis, TN

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Olive Fremstad
née Anna Olivia Rundquist
b. 3-14-1871; Stockholm, Sweden (raised in Minneapolis)
d. 4-21-1951; New York

Olive Fremstad, who sang in the mezzo-soprano and soprano ranges, appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1903 until 1914, specializing in Wagnerian roles (‘Venus’ in Tannhäuser, ‘Kundry’ in Parsifal, ‘Sieglinde’, ‘Isolde’ and ‘Elsa’ in Lohengrin).

Fremstad studied her roles thoroughly - she visited the NYC morgue to practice how much staggering would be necessary to convey the weight of John the Baptist's head on a platter.

FYI ~ The Met was on tour in April of 1906 - Fremstad and Enrico Caruso performed Carmen at the San Francisco Grand Opera House on the evening of the 17th. They were all jolted out of bed on the morning of the 18th ... the San Francisco earthquake. All of the Met's artists survived but all sets and costumes were lost.

Study for Loie Fuller at the Folies Bergeres, 1893, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Giclee Print

Marie Louise Fuller
b. 1-15-1862; Hinsdale, IL
d. 1-1-1928; Paris (breast cancer)

Modern dance and theatrical lighting pioneer Loie Fuller (née Marie Louise Fuller) was a regular performer in Paris, and called “La Loie”. She was one of dancers immortalized by Toulouse-Lautrec, and was friends with artists, poets and scientists (like William Butler Yeats, Stephane Mallarme, and Marie Curie) alike, and said to embody the Art Noveau Movement. Fuller also introduced Isadora Duncan to Europe.

• Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism