Anni Frind (3 February 1900 – 8 April 1987)[1] 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).

[1] 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.