Pupil of Schenker's for an undetermined period ending in summer 1907.

Career summary

Regine Klein began her career as a soprano soloist at the Carl Theater and Comic Opera (Ringtheater) in Vienna 1875–82, but then redirected her career to focus on serious roles at the Prague Opera 1882–84 and Vienna Court Opera 1885–87, where she was much loved by audiences, her farewell performance on May 28, 1887 being in the role of Senta in Wagner’s Flying Dutchman. In 1899, she and her mother were victims of a highway robbery while travelling in winter in a sled at night.

In 1887 she married the wealthy banker Gustav Heine-Geldern, nephew of Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), becoming the possessor of the poet’s papers and manuscripts at her husband’s death in 1898. She continued to sing at charitable events, to the committees of which she devoted much of her life, as she did also to playing competitive golf.

Baronin Heine and Schenker

Baronin Heine had been taking lessons with Schenker during 1906/07, and possibly before that. Schenker's diary records that she failed to turn up for lessons in October 1907.

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