Etelka Gerster

Etelka Gerster was a Hungarian soprano. She studied with Mathilde Marchesi at the Vienna Conservatory, and made her debut at the La Fenice in Venice with great success as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. In 1876/77, she had her first successes at Marseille and Genova. In 1877 she was at Berlin with an Italian Opera company that brought forth much sensation at the Kroll Oper. Her older sister, the soprano Bertha Krause-Gerster (1852-1885) was also a member of this company.