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OLIVE, an American soprano. Born at Stockholm, Sweden, in 1870, she received most of her early education at Christiania. When in 1882 her parents moved to Minneapolis she had already learned to play the piano, and in a few years she was giving music lessons and singing in the church choirs.
She came to New York in 1890 and after receiving vocal instruction made her début as a concert singer two years later. From 1892-1894 she studied in Germany under Lilli Lehmann, specializing in Wagnerian operas. For the next few years she sang in the grand opera companies of Vienna, Cologne, Antwerp, and Amsterdam. In 1900 the Royal Opera in Munich and the Covent Garden in London made an arrangement to secure her services for the next three years. In 1903 she made her début with the Metropolitan Opera Company as Sieglinde. Her success was such that for eleven consecutive seasons thereafter she was one of the stars of that famous company.
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