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Her wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Kurt

A NEW GERMAN SOPRANO Mme. Melanie Kurt Appears at the Metropolitan Opera in "Tristan" The Metropolitan Opera House has acquired a remarkably fine artist in Mme. Melanie Kurt, the German dramatic soprano, who made her first appearance here last evening in a performance of "Tristan and Isolde". — The New York Times, February 2, 1915   Melanie Kurt (1880–1941) was an Austrian opera singer (soprano). She first studied to become a pianist in her native City of Vienna before starting to take singing lessons. From 1897 to 1900 she only appeared as a pianist. Later she went to Berlin, and London where she studied and performed with renowned opera singers. In 1914 she was at the peak of her career when she joined the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where she succeeded Olive Fremstad as the company's leading Wagner soprano for three years. When America entered World War I in 1917, Wagner operas were banned as being too German. Torn by the war, Kurt remained in the US until 1919 before returning to Germany. — Excerpted from Wikipedia.

The immortal tenor, after a trans-Atlantic voyage, about to disembark in New York. He arrived on the Kaiser Wilhelm, November 12, 1913, in the company of several other opera singers: Another shipboard shot of Caruso: Other opera singers arrived on the same boat:

Don't stay out there too long. Enrico. It may harm your voice.... : )

They don't seem to be worried about harm to their voices. None wear scarves, and Gilly is smoking a cigarette.

''Marie Carandini was the wife of an exiled Italian Count, Count Gerome Carandini, tenth Marquise of Saranzo, who came to Hobart, Tasmania, in the 1840s. She became a noted opera singer. Madame Carandini and her daughters Fanny, Rosina and Lizzie formed a famed singing group, traveling widely in Australia and overseas.

"She had eight children of whom five daughters were musical and took part in her tours. She died at London in 1894. Her eldest daughter Rosina Martha Hozanah Palmer was a notable soprano in Australia and her great grandson (by her son Major Frank James (Francesco Giacomo) Carandini, 11th Marquess of Sarzano) is the actor Christopher Lee." –Wikipedia

[ I have no clue if this is a photograph of Marie with her daughters Fanny, Rosina and Lizzie, or if a different daughter is pictured. ]

This is fascinating!

Great hand coloring

nice dresses!

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Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)

Nice picture. I like the dresses the ladies are wearing