Table Of Contents:
Foreword and Acknowledgments 7(6)

William R. Moran
Prologue 13(10)

Elizabeth Johnston
PREFACE

ONE My Youth 23(8)

TWO Student Years in Berlin 31(14)

THREE My First Year in Schwerin 45(6)

FOUR Bayreuth 51(6)

FIVE A Busy Year of Singing 57(6)

SIX The Royal Opera in Berlin 63(6)

SEVEN The Emperor's Skylark 69(12)

EIGHT King Leopold of Belgium 81(8)

NINE The Great Epoch in Berlin 89(8)

TEN Richard Strauss 97(12)

ELEVEN America 109(8)

TWELVE Der Rosenkavalier 117(10)

THIRTEEN Giulio Gatti-Casazza and the Years 1914-16 127(35)

FOURTEEN A Summer During the War 162(5)

FIFTEEN New York in War Time 167(14)

SIXTEEN A Question of Loyalty 181(30)

SEVENTEEN With the Chicago Opera Association 211(18)

EIGHTEEN The Jenny Lind Story 229(22)

NINETEEN Remembering the Twenties 251(6)

TWENTY Great Britain 257(7)

TWENTY-ONE Washington, D.C. 264(7)

TWENTY-TWO Luisa Tetrazzini 271(8)

TWENTY-THREE Jekyll and Hyde 279(4)

TWENTY-FOUR Then and Now: Reflections on the Golden Age 283(8)

TWENTY-FIVE On Mozart and Coloratura Singing 291(3)

TWENTY-SIX To the Young Singer 294(2)

TWENTY-SEVEN Other Years, Other Endeavors 296(3)

TWENTY-EIGHT My Date with Brownie 299(20)

TWENTY-NINE Singing Is My Life 319(2)
Epilogue: The Final Years 321(14)

Elizabeth Johnston
Postscript 335(52)

William R. Moran
An Informal and Selected Chronology: Frieda Hempel's Career as Reported in the Press 335(37)
Hempel and the Lawyers: The Heckscher Affair and the IRS 372(6)

George T. Keating
Friend and Benefactor 378(9)
Frieda Hempel's Operatic Repertoire 387(4)
The Recorded Legacy of Frieda Hempel 391(40)

William R. Moran
Notes 431(6)
Select Bibliography 437(2)
Index of Names 439(10)
Contributors 449