However, about this time Israel Grodner and his wife Annetta reappeared.

Grodner met his wife Annetta in his travels as a Broder singer.

Shortly before Grodner founded a new troupe in Riga ( again with Finkel, Friedman, and his wife Annetta, now their prima donna ); after the 1883 ban on Yiddish theater in Imperial Russia, they went to London ( which was briefly the center of Yiddish theater ).

Later they toured to Yelizavetgrad ( now Kirovohrad ), where they were joined by Israel and Annetta Grodner, who had re-joined Goldfaden in Odessa, but then had a falling out.

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She and her sister Annetta shared prima donna duties in Abraham Goldfaden's troupe in Romania beginning in 1877.

He had met Luacine (“ Lute ”) Annetta Savage, the youngest daughter of Charles Roscoe Savage of Salt Lake City in 1894, but could not afford to marry her.

After his death, his concert concept was kept alive by his widow, Annetta, and collaborators.

Claudia Muzio arrived in London at the age of 2 and went to school there, becoming fluent in English, before returning to Italy at the age of 16 to study in Turin with Annetta Casaloni, a piano teacher and former operatic mezzo-soprano who had created the role of Maddalena in the world première of Verdi's Rigoletto.

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See Annetta Hoffnung's biography of Gerard Hoffnung and the sleeve notes to the complete Decca recording of the concert in question.

He was born in the Netherlands to Jan Bok and Gesina Annetta ( née van der Lee ) Bok, but spent a good deal of his childhood days growing up in what was then known as the Dutch East Indies.

Levi was born in Turin, Piedmont, to wealthy Jewish physician Ercole Levi and Annetta Treves, the sister of Claudio Treves, an important socialist leader in Italy.

He was business partner first of Abraham Goldfaden and later of Sigmund Mogulesko ( the greatest Yiddish star of the generation ) and, for a time, was married to prima donna Annetta Schwartz.

Annetta Schwartz was one of the first distinguished female performers in Yiddish theater.

According to Adler, Rosenberg, who played many of the same roles as Israel Grodner, essentially told Adler " it's him or me ".

According to Adler, Rosenberg, who played many of the same roles as Israel Grodner, essentially told Adler " it's him or me ".

The troupe consisted of three men ( Goldfaden, Israel Grodner, and Sokher Goldstein ); they had collaborated with various other actors and musicians in their previous performances in Iaşi and Botoşani, but up to this point they had all been men, even for the female roles.

In Romania in 1877, he converted back to Judaism and, having been turned down as a playwright by Goldfaden, who wrote all of his own company's plays, Horowitz ( along with Joseph Lateiner ) began to write plays for Israel Grodner and Sigmund Mogulesko after they left Abraham Goldfaden's troupe.

The only expedient was to marry one of the players, and since Goldfaden and Grodner were both already married, the only expedient was to marry Goldstein ( and to change her first name to the more " glamorous " Sophie ).

The daughter of a bootmaker in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, she met and married Israel Grodner some time around 1870, when he passed through Kremenchuk in the course of his wanderings as a young Broder singer.

Although his early performances with Goldfaden are usually considered the start of professional Yiddish-language theater, as a Broder singer Grodner was already something of an actor, and he had already participated in an 1873 concert in Odessa, Ukraine in which he and other Broder singers sang songs ( including some of Goldfaden's ) and improvised comic material between songs that was very similar to Goldfaden's early, highly improvised, comic musical plays.

Adler attempted to convince him to change his mind, but insisted on including Grodner in the travel party: Adler considered him one of the best actors in Yiddish theater, a great asset to any performances they would give in London, while he felt Rosenberg lacked depth as an actor.

The Grodners ultimately left to do theater in a series of other locations, notably Paris, but eventually came back to London, where Israel Grodner died in 1887.

Adler attempted to convince him to change his mind, but insisted on including Grodner in the travel party: Adler considered him one of the best actors in Yiddish theater, a great asset to any performances they would give in London, while he felt Rosenberg lacked depth as an actor.

The show's head writers were Michael Grodner and Swith Bell, while Neil Landau served as the co-head writer.

Israel Grodner, later Goldfaden's first actor, participated in an outdoor concert in Odessa in 1873 with dialogues between songs comparable to much of what was in Goldfaden's earliest plays.

In writing about this period in his memoir, Adler mentions attending and admiring performances by Israel Grodner, a Brody singer and improvisational actor who would soon become one of the founders of professional Yiddish theater.

However, he and Grodner soon fell out: they wrangled over ideology and over parts, and their verbal duels boiled over into improvised stage dialogue.

In his first non-comic role, a play by August von Kotzebue, he so upstaged the star, Israel Grodner, that Grodner quit to start his own company ; ironically, Grodner would soon hire Mogulesko away from Goldfaden ; Mogulesko would eventually inherit Grodner's troupe, and Grodner would start another.

Israel Grodner, Eduard Margules, Kheym Shmuel Lukatsher, Avrom Akselrod, Yiddish actors c. 1874

Israel ( Yisrol ) Grodner ( ca.

Actor Jacob Adler, already a big fan of the highly regarded Russian language theater in Odessa at that time, and who saw Grodner perform in taverns and restaurants, indicates in his memoir the strong impression Grodner made on him for how well he portrayed his characters.

Lulla Rosenfeld writes that Grodner was known in Odessa as " Srolikl Papirosnik " ( from papiros, cigarette ) because he always had a cigarette dangling from his lip.

Grodner joined Goldfaden in the performances at the legendary Gradina Pomul Verde (" Green Fruit-Tree Garden ") in Iaşi, then, when they could not rent a theater building in Iaşi, traveled with him to perform in Botoşani, Galaţi, Brăila, and finally Bucharest, where the troupe became an enormous hit, but where Grodner began to be eclipsed as lead actor by Sigmund Mogulesko.

Grodner quit Goldfaden's company to found his own in Iaşi, taking with him Moishe Finkel, Rosa Friedman, and his own wife, who was a good singer but had not previously been a stage performer ; Sokher Goldstein soon followed.

In 1880 Grodner and Mogulesko toured to Warsaw, but soon Mogulesko had taken over the troupe and once again supplanted Grodner ; Jacob Adler reports that around this time he also toured to Constantinople, briefly rejoined Goldfaden in Odessa, and then temporarily joined the traveling troupe of Israel Rosenberg, but that he was already in declining health at this time.

Grodner soon left to found yet another troupe in Galicia, with which he toured to Vienna.