The Biographical Dictionary of America/Adams, Suzanne

ADAMS, Suzanne, operatic singer, was born in Cambridge, Mass., 1873, daughter of John Gedney Adams. She lost her parents early and was educated by an aunt, Mrs. M. D. Higgins, who later went abroad with her and enabled her to study in France at the age of sixteen. C. T. Capen and Madame Pégun were her first instructors in America, but Bouhy and Madame Marchesi were her vocal teachers abroad. She studied dramatic action with Konig and Pluke. Her first appearance in grand opera was as Juliet at the Paris opera house in 1894-'95, with the Maurice Grau Opera Company. She sang at Covent Garden, London, England, in 1898 and 1901, at the Auditorium, Chicago, Ill., in 1898, and in New York city in January, 1899. She married in October, 1898, Leo Stern, the eminent violincellist, and lived abroad most of the time.