Their son George Nesbitt Armstrong was born at the Marian home on October 16, 1883 but his safe arrival did not help save the marriage. [1] In 1911 in partnership with the J. C. Williamson company, she appeared in an operatic season. "[51] In her many concerts, however, her repertoire was regarded as trite and predictable. Baronet Armstrong of Gallen. [85] Full-length biographies devoted to her include those by Agnes G. Murphy (1909), John Hetherington (1967), Thérèse Radic (1986) and Ann Blainey (2009). [23] Her Italian parts included Gilda in Rigoletto,[24] the title role in Aida,[25] Desdemona in Otello,[26] Luisa in Mascagni's I Rantzau,[27] Nedda in Pagliacci,[28] Rosina in The Barber of Seville,[29] Violetta in La traviata,[30] and Mimì in La bohème. Er ist der älteste Sohn von William Howarth Vestey und dessen Gattin Helen Armstrong. [54] She returned to Australia but died in St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, in 1931, aged 69, of septicaemia which had developed after facial surgery in Europe some time before. A reporter from Phonoscope magazine was impressed: "The next cylinder was labelled 'Melba' and was truly wonderful, the phonograph reproducing her wonderful voice in a marvellous manner, especially the high notes which soared away above the staff and were rich and clear." [1][n 6] The profits were unprecedented; she returned for four more tours during her career. [1] She studied singing with Mary Ellen Christian (a former pupil of Manuel García) and Pietro Cecchi, an Italian tenor, who was a respected teacher in Melbourne. "And teach 100 girls herself." Her headstone, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens,[56] bears the farewell words of Mimì in La bohème: "Addio, senza rancor" (Farewell, without bitterness).[57]. Let me say the same in other words: In order to sing well, it is necessary to sing easily.[58]. Her father encouraged her in her musical studies, but he strongly disapproved of her taking up singing as a career. [57] The Australian baritone John Brownlee and tenor Browning Mummery were both protégés: both sang with her in her 1926 Covent Garden farewell (recorded by HMV), and Brownlee sang with her on two of her last commercial recordings later that year (a session arranged by her in part to promote Brownlee). Februar 1931 in Sydney) war eine australische Opernsängerin schottischer Herkunft. I hate the artistic snobbery of it. After sharing the Covent Garden stage in a 1923 night of operatic extracts with another Australian soprano, Florence Austral (who, as a dramatic soprano, posed no threat to Melba, a lyric soprano), Melba was effusive with her praise, describing the younger woman as "one of the wonder-voices of the world". She argued strongly for further productions of the work in the face of the distaste expressed by the Covent Garden management at this "new and plebeian opera". Baron Vestey. Am 22. She received a certain amount of praise in these roles, although Klein found her unsuited to them,[2] and Bernard Shaw thought she sang with great skill but played artificially and without sensibility. Those present when she died were Mrs. Nellie and Charles’ son George also had only one surviving child, Pamela, who later became Lady Vestey. [37] In 1896 at the Metropolitan, she attempted the role of Brünnhilde in Siegfried, in which she was not a success. 76 Beziehungen. William Howarth Vestey, a member of the Scots Guards who was killed in action in 1944 during the Second World War and Lady Vestey (1918–2011) (née Pamela Armstrong). She was in Australia when the First World War broke out, and she threw herself into fund-raising for war charities, raising £100,000. 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