Opera Singers & Vocalists Posters, Prints & Photographs, “F...-”
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Farinelli
Geraldine Farrar
Eileen Farrell

Kathleen Ferrier
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Kirsten Flagstad

Farinelli
née Carlo Maria Broschi
b. 1-24-1705; Andria (Italy)
d. 9-16-1782; Bologna

Farinelli was the most famous male soprano, known as “Il Ragazzo”, “the boy”, in the 18th century.

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).

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.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
b. 5-28-1925; Orleans, France

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, a lyric baritone and conductor of classical music, is one of the most famous lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period.

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.

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

Soprano Renée Fleming sang in opera and lieder.

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.