Vivian Greenstein Ferleger Kresch, known on the stage as Gabrielle Hunt (4 September 1913 - 2 December 1984), was an American contralto and voice teacher.
She trained under Estelle Liebling at the Curtis Institute of Music and was a leading performer with the Philadelphia Opera Company in the early 1940s.
[4] When the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball was given at CIM on April 1, 1937,[5] she was listed under the name Gabrielle Hunt as a member of the opera chorus.
[9][10] Her other repertoire with the POC included Mercédès in Carmen (1940),[11] Olga in Eugene Onegin (1940),[12] Marthe Schwerlein in Charles Gounod's Faust (1941),[13] Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande (1941),[14] Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro (1941),[15] Annina in Der Rosenkavalier (1941),[16] She toured to the Boston Opera House with the POC in 1942 where she repeated the roles of Marcellina[17] and Geneviève.
[18] In 1944 Hunt gave a recital of music by Claude Debussy with pianist Rafael de Silva that was sponsored by the Philadelphia Art Alliance (PAA).