Elise Kutscherra de Nyss (also: Kutschera, Nijs, Nys, Nysz, Nyß) (10 June 1867 – 29 December 1945)[1][2] was an operatic soprano and teacher.

[1][2] In any case, Kutscherra made her debut on July 27, 1888, in the Kroll opera in Berlin in the role of Margaretha in Faust.

Shortly thereafter she married Maximillien de Nijs of Ostende, Belgium, established her residence in Brussels and adopted the Belgian nationality.

[10] In 1914 Kutscherra performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and announced that she would move her school to the United States because of World War I.

[13] A death certificate in Paris shows that Maximilien Gustave Eduard Denys, husband of Elise Marguerite Anna Kutscherra, passed away on 4 May 1929.