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1900s Italian lyric soprano

Berlin-born Meta Seinemeyer was a lyric-dramatic soprano with a voice whose rich qualities were captured on many recordings.

Margarete Matzenauer, a contralto soprano, was perhaps the most outstanding example of her type of voice in the 1920s.

Born in a Bavarian village, opera singer Maria Olszewska chose her stage name from the Munich phone book. ous.

A superb Swedish mezzo-soprano, Kerstin Thorborg made her debut with the Swedish Royal Opera, singing small roles in 1923 and moving to larger parts the next year. She went next to German theaters and then to Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, London, and to the Metropolitan Opera where she sang from 1936 until 1950.