Elise Kutscherra de Nyss

Elise Kutscherra de Nyss (also: Kutschera, Nysz, Nyß) (10 June 1867 or 1874 – 29 December 1945) was an operatic soprano.
Biography.
She was born Elise Kutscherra in Berlin in 1867 or in Prague in 1874. Her Paris Opéra debut was on June 15, 1896, as Sieglinde in Wagner's "Die Walküre". She had her American concert debut under the direction of Walter Damrosch in 1894. In 1914 she performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and announced that she would move her school to the United States. However, she returned to Berlin and later moved to Vienna where she died.