Grete Stückgold

Grete Stückgold (6 July 1895 – 15 September 1977) was an English-born German and American operatic soprano.

[1] Born in London,[1] Stückgold was the daughter of Ludwig Schneidt, a German who worked in Nordenham, England.

In 1926 she gave a recital tour of the United Kingdom, and in 1927 she made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida.

[1] In 1927 Stückgold became a principal artist the Metropolitan Opera ("the Met") in New York City, and not long after became a naturalized American citizen.

[2] She made her debut at the Met on 2 November 1927 in the role of Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.