Anni Frind

Anni Frind (3 February 1900 – 8 April 1987) After the successful premiere of Ralph Benatzky's operetta Casanova in 1928, her energies were devoted mainly to operetta; and the ever-popular His Master's Voice recording of "The Nuns' Chorus" (comp. Johann Strauss II/arr. Ralph Benatzky) was produced. She appeared as Adele in Max Reinhardt's production of Die Fledermaus 200 times.

Retirement from professional singing and later life Anni Frind retired from professional singing at the outbreak of World War II, subsequently marrying. At the end of the war she sang for Allied soldiers at the front and worked as a volunteer nurse. Anni Frind-Sperling moved to New Orleans in 1951, and became a singing teacher at Newcomb College Tulane University. She died 1987 in New Orleans aged 87.