Anni Frind
{{Short description|German opera singer (1900–1987)}}
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| name = Anni Frind
| image = Anni Frind by Gregor Harlip, signed photo postcard.JPG
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| caption = Anni Frind by Gregor Harlip, signed photo postcard (1920s)
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|02|03}}
| birth_place = Nixdorf, Austria-Hungary
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1987|04|08|1900|02|02}}
| death_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
| nationality = German
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| occupation = Opera singer, Singing teacher
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Anni Frind (3 February 1900 – 8 April 1987) was one of the most highly recorded lyric sopranos in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s.
Anni Frind was born into a German family in Nixdorf, a small town in Bohemia (now Czech Republic).
Career
She made her debut in 1922 at the Volksoper Berlin and went on to sing leading soprano roles in both opera and operetta at the Munich State Opera, the Dresden State Opera, the German Opera House in Berlin and other major European cities.[https://nytimes.com/1987/04/11/obituaries/anni-frind-soprano-is-dead-performed-in-20-s-and-30-s.html The New York Times obituary: Anni Frind][https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1987/04/10/anni-frind-sperling-87-european-opera-star-of/ Orlando Sentinel obituary: Anni Frind] After the successful premiere of Ralph Benatzky's operetta Casanova in 1928,[https://archive.today/20120801153003/http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/March%201948/21/830558/Anni+Frind.html Gramophone, 1948]{{IMDb name|0295781|Anni Frind}} her energies were devoted mainly to operetta; and the ever-popular His Master's Voice recording of "The Nuns' Chorus" (comp. Johann Strauss II/arr. Ralph Benatzky) was produced.[http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/March%201979//732276/Anni+Frind.html Gramophone, 1979]{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}[https://archive.org/details/AnniFrindTheNunsChorous192978Record Internet Archive "The Nuns‘ Chorus" by Anni Frind], Großes Schauspielhaus, 1929 She appeared as Adele in Max Reinhardt's production of Die Fledermaus 200 times.
Retirement from professional singing and later life
Anni Frind retired from professional singing at the outbreak of World War II, subsequently marrying. At the end of the war she sang for Allied soldiers at the front and worked as a volunteer nurse. Anni Frind-Sperling moved to New Orleans in 1951, and became a singing teacher at Newcomb College Tulane University. She died 1987 in New Orleans aged 87.
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Category:German operatic sopranos
Category:Sudeten German people
Category:Czechoslovak emigrants
Category:Immigrants to Germany
Category:20th-century German women opera singers
Category:Singers from New Orleans
Category:Tulane University faculty
Category:Immigrants to the United States
Category:People from Děčín District
Category:Centaur Records artists
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