Fritzi Scheff (1879–1954)

FRITZI SCHEFF, an Austro-American prima donna, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1882. She received her musical education at Frankfurt, Germany, and appeared on the operatic stage for the first time at the Munich Opera House, in 1900. In 1902 she made her first appearance at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, remaining a member of its company under the management of Maurice Grau, from 1900 to 1903. In the latter year she appeared in New York for the first time in a musical comedy, to which work she devoted herself until 1913. From 1913 to 1918 she appeared principally in vaudeville, returning in the latter year to the musical opera stage in “Glorianna.” She was married three times; first to Baron von Bardeleben of the German army, second to John Fox, Jr. (q. v.), and third to George Anderson, an actor.