Historical FigureFemale
Etelka Gerster
1855 – 1920
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryEtelka Gerster was a Hungarian soprano. She studied with Mathilde Marchesi at the Vienna Conservatory, and made her debut at the La Fenice in Venice with great success as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. In 1876/77, she had her first successes at Marseille and Genova. In 1877 she was at Berlin with an Italian Opera company that brought forth much sensation at the Kroll Oper. Her older sister, the soprano Bertha Krause-Gerster (1852-1885) was also a member of this company.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
June 27, 1855
Košice
Date of death
August 20, 1920
Sasso Marconi
Citizenship
Austrian Empire · Austria–Hungary
Occupations & fields
opera singermusic educatorvoice teacher
- Field and occupation
- maďarská operná speváčka
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