Pauline de Ahna
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Pauline Maria de Ahna, also known as Pauline Strauss, was a German operatic soprano and the wife of composer Richard Strauss. Her singing career was closely tied to her husband's career as a conductor
Pauline de Ahna Strauss, c. 1900
Strauss, De Ahna and their son, Franz, 1910
Eleonore de Ahna
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Eleonore de Ahna, occasionally also Leonore de Ahna, was a German operatic soprano/mezzo-soprano.
Pauline de Ahna
…portrait of their marriage, and Strauss credited his wife's voice as a muse for the roles of Salome and the Countess Madeleine in Capriccio. The singer Eleonore de Ahna was her aunt. She was the subject of the one-woman show Die Frau im Schatten, performed by Dame Gwyneth Jones at the 2004 Strauss Festival in…
Eleonore de Ahna, etching by August Weger