Gunnar Graarud (1 June 1886 - 6 December 1960) was a Norwegian operatic tenor.
 After making his debut in 1919, he was a leading artist at the Berlin State Opera from 1924-1926 and at the Vienna State Opera from 1929-1937.
 In 1927 he created the role of The blind judge in the world premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Das Wunder der Heliane" at the Hamburg State Opera.
 In 1928 he sang the role of Tristan for the first recording of Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde".
 After retiring from the stage he was a member of the voice faculty at the Vienna Academy of Music.
 One of his notable pupils was bass Otto Edelmann.
Earth Spirit (1895) ("Erdgeist") is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind.
 It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays; the second is "Pandora's Box" (1904), both depicting a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed".
 In German folklore an "erdgeist" is a gnome, first described in Goethe's "Faust" (1808).
 Together with "Pandora's Box", Wedekind's play formed the basis for the silent film "Pandora's Box" (1929) starring Louise Brooks and the opera "Lulu" by Alban Berg (1935, premiered posthumously in 1937).
Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English actor, popular during the 1930s and 1940s.
 He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for "A Double Life" (1947) and received nominations for "Random Harvest" (1942), "Bulldog Drummond" (1929) and "Condemned" (1929).
 Colman starred in several classic films, including "A Tale of Two Cities" (1935), "Lost Horizon" (1937) and "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1937).
 He also played the starring role in the Technicolor classic "Kismet" (1944), with Marlene Dietrich, which was nominated for four Academy Awards.
Otto Edelmann (February 5, 1917 in Vienna – May 14, 2003 in Vienna) was an Austrian bass.
 He was born in Vienna and studied singing in Vienna with Gunnar Graarud.
 His debut was at Gera as Figaro in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro".
 He later sang the Vienna State Opera, the Edinburgh Festival and the Metropolitan Opera.
 He sang at the Bayreuth Festival immediately after its reopening in 1951 after World War II, performing the role of Hans Sachs in Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg".
 (He also recorded as Veit Pogner the goldsmith in the same work in one of Hans Knappertsbusch's early recorded performances.)
 He also sang Ochs in Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier" at the first performances in the new Salzburg Festspielhaus in 1960.
 In 1957, he recorded the role of Wotan opposite Kirsten Flagstad in Georg Solti's recording of Act III of Wagner's "Die Walküre" (an album made prior to the later famous complete set of "Der Ring des Nibelungen").
 He died in Vienna.
Frank Joseph Rawlinson (9 January 1871- 14 August 1937) born in Langham, Rutland County, England, was an American Protestant missionary to China from 1902 to 1937 known for his theologically liberal views, openness to Chinese culture, and support for Chinese nationalism.
 From 1912 to 1937 he was editor of The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, published in Shanghai, the leading English language journal of the Protestant missionary community.
Lulu (composed from 1929–1935, premièred incomplete in 1937 and complete in 1979) is an opera in three acts by Alban Berg.
 The German-language libretto was adapted by Berg himself from Frank Wedekind's two "Lulu" plays, "Erdgeist" ("Earth Spirit", 1895) and "Die Büchse der Pandora" ("Pandora's Box", 1904).
 Berg died before completing the third and final act, and in the following decades, the opera was typically performed incomplete.
 Since its publication in 1979, however, the Friedrich Cerha orchestration has become popular.
 Theodor W. Adorno wrote "The opera "Lulu" is one of those works that reveals the extent of its quality the longer and more deeply one immerses oneself in it."
Staintondale railway station (since 1937 known as Stainton Dale, written as two separate words) was a railway station on the Scarborough & Whitby Railway.
 It opened on 16 July 1885, and served the hamlet of Staintondale in North Yorkshire, England.
 Staintondale railway station was 8 miles north of Scarborough and had a small goods yard, where in later years a camping coach was stationed, and was listed in 1956 as being able to handle general goods, livestock, horse boxes and prize cattle vans, but there was no permanent crane.
 On 4 May 1964 the goods service was withdrawn from the station which closed completely on 8 March 1965.
 The platforms and the main station buildings (used for residential purposes) are still in place.
The American Opera Company was the name of four different opera companies active in the United States.
 The first company was a short-lived opera company founded in New York City in February, 1886 that lasted only one season.
 The second company was based out of Rochester, New York and was active from the mid-1920s up until 1930 when it went bankrupt not too long after the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
 The third opera company was a short lived company located in Trenton, New Jersey that was active in 1937.
 The fourth and last opera company was actively performing in Philadelphia from 1946 through 1950.
Johan Gunnar Jansson (13 October 1897 – 15 December 1953) was a Swedish hammer thrower who won a bronze medal at the 1934 European Championships.
 He competed at the 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics and finished in 7th and 12th place, respectively.
 Jansson held Swedish titles in the hammer throw in 1931, 1933–35 and 1937 and in the weight throw in 1929–31, 1933–35, 1937 and 1938.
The Vienna State Opera (German: Wiener Staatsoper ) is an Austria opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria.
 It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera (Wiener Hofoper).
 In 1920, with the replacement of the Habsburg Monarchy by the First Austrian Republic, it was renamed the Vienna State Opera.
 The members of the Vienna Philharmonic are recruited from its orchestra.

Question: Gunnar Graarud starred in an opera from 1929-1937 known as what in german?
Answer: Wiener Staatsoper