Anna Sutter

Anna Sutter (26 November 1871 - 29 June 1910) was a Swiss operatic soprano.

Born in Wil, she earned a diploma in piano performance from the Bern Conservatory before studying singing in Munich.

[1] Her career was cut short when she was murdered by conductor Aloys Obrist in her Stuttgart apartment.

[2] Sutter’s obituary compared her life to that of Salome, claiming “She was a natural, full of unmediated, effervescent temperament; she lived the roles she played.”[3] Prior to her death, she had broken off a romantic relationship with Obrist and become involved with the bass-baritone Albin Swoboda, Jr. who was just 17 years old at the time.

Unusual for an unmarried woman at that time she gave birth to a daughter in 1900 (from Hans Freiherr von Entress-Fürsteneck) and to a son in 1902 (from Hugo Reichenberger).