Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1861-06-15
Day of Death
1936-11-17 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Libeň, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Prague, Czech Republic]
Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Biography
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Ernestine Schumann-Heink was a Czech-born German-American operatic contralto of German Bohemian descent. She was noted for the size, beauty, tonal richness, flexibility and wide range of her voice.
Known For
Acting
(1950)
The Golden Twenties
as Self (archive footage)
(1935)
Here's to Romance
as Mme. Schumann-Heink
(1928)
(1927)
(1915)