page_title: Johanna Gadski
section_title: After WW I
hierarchical_section_title: Johanna Gadski / Biography / After WW I
caption_attribution_description: English: Johanna Gadski in 1917
context_page_description: Johanna Emilia Agnes Gadski was a German soprano. She was blessed with a secure, powerful, ringing voice, fine musicianship and an excellent technique. These attributes enabled her to enjoy a highly successful career in New York City and London, performing heavy dramatic roles in the German and Italian repertoires.
context_section_description: Gadski resumed her professional concert career in the United States in 1921; she did not, however, return to the operatic stage until 1928 when she sang in a production of Die Walküre mounted by the Washington National Opera, a semi-professional company not related to its present namesake.
  Thereafter, in the years 1929 to 1931, Gadski made two tours as the star of her German Grand Opera Company, which produced dozens of performances of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. By this late date, however, her voice had declined due to advancing age and overwork in her early years.
  Gadski was visiting Germany when she was killed in an automobile accident in Berlin on 22 February 1932.
  Jessica Chastain bought Gadski's apartment at The Osborne on West 57th Street in 2015.
caption: Gadski in 1917
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