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Edith Evans, Schumann-Heink (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernestine_Schumann-Heink
    "Ernestine Schumann-Heink, née Rössler (15 June 1861 – 17 November 1936), was a celebrated German Bohemian, later American, operatic contralto, noted for the size, beauty, tonal richness, flexibility and wide range of her voice."
  • swanq said:
    Edith Evans was clearly Schumann-Heink's accompanist for some time. See Music Magazine from October 1918 -- books.google.com

    Later Edith Evans Braun, a bio is at archives.nypl.org
  • Kristi (LOC P&P) said:
    swanq: Thanks for the excellent info on these two ladies. We will improve the records to reflect these details.
  • swanq said:
    More about Ernestine from the Wikipedia page (as of Sept 2026)

    "First marriage
    "In 1882 she married Johann Georg Ernst Albert Heink (1854–1933), secretary of the Semperoper, the Saxon State Opera Dresden; this violated the terms of their contracts, and both had their employment abruptly terminated. Heink took a job at the local customs house and was soon transferred to Hamburg. Ernestine remained in Dresden to pursue her career, and eventually rejoined her husband when she secured a position at the Hamburg Opera. She went on to have four children with Heink: August, Charlotte, Henry and Hans.

    Second marriage
    After the divorce from her first husband, she married Paul Schumann, an actor and director of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg in 1892. She acquired a stepson, Walter, and had three more children with Paul: Ferdinand Schumann, Marie Theresa Schumann, and George Washington Schumann. This last boy was born in New York City, named by his good-humored mother with suggestion of the doctor who delivered the baby. One of their children, Ferdinand (1893–1958) was a prolific, though mostly unbilled, Hollywood character actor.

    Paul Schumann died in Germany on 28 November 1904. While fighting a legal battle in Germany over her husband's estate, she filed her United States naturalization papers on 10 February 1905, and became a U.S. citizen on 3 March 1908."
  • swanq said:
    Son Ferdinand
    Ferd. Schumann - Heink, standing three-quarters, photo: Hahn Nachf., Dresden, Ferdinand Str. 11 (LOC)

    Son Heinrich/Henry
    Heinrich Schumann - Heink, 12 years, standing three-quarters, Photographer: A. Mocsigay, Hamburg, Neuerwall 46 (LOC)

    Son Hans
    Hans Schumann - Heink, standing three-quarters, photo: Hahn Nachf., Dresden, Ferdinand Str. 11 (LOC)

    Daughter Marie
    Miss Schumann - Heink, seated, photographer: Hahn Nachf., Dresden-Ferdinand Str. 11 (LOC)

    Stepson Walter
    Walter Schumann - Heink, 15 years, photo: Hahn Nachf., Dresden, Ferdinand Str. 11 (LOC)

    Brother George
    Gen. Washington Schumann - Heink, standing with ball, 5 1/4 years, photo: Hahn Nachf., Dresden, Ferdinand Str. (LOC)

Eva Mylott, opera singer and paternal grandmother of Mel Gibson, ca. 1900 / J. Hubert Newman, French panel, 314 George St, late of Oxford St, Sydney

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Mexycan said:
    our son's fiancee is a mezzo opera singer (c;

Mme. Louise Homer and twins -- Sept. 1915 (LOC)

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