Wagner of the day: Fremstad

“The opera-glass will never betray any of Mme. Fremstad’s secrets,”
Willa Cather once wrote of the Norwegian-American soprano Olive Fremstad,
who worked her way from a little Minnesota town to the most illustrious opera stages. The phonograph betrays little more, but this inadequate souvenir of Fremstad's Isolde is still a precious thing to have.