Ada Crossley
Ada Jemima Crossley (born March 3, 1871 in Tarraville , † October 17, 1929 in Great Missenden ) was an Australian opera singer ( alto ).
Life
Crossley had piano lessons as a child and played the organ in various churches. Later she was a piano student of Alberto Zelman . She began her vocal training with Fanny Simonsen and made her debut as a singer in the Town Hall of Melbourne in 1889 at the Philharmonic Subscription Concert . In the next few years she performed as an oratorio and concert singer and was first alto in the choir of Charles Strong's Australian Church .
In 1894 she traveled to London, where she studied with Charles Santley and in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi . She made her debut in London's Queen's Hall in 1895 and, after replacing Clara Butt at a concert in Manchester, became a sought-after oratorio singer in England, performing five times for Queen Victoria in two years alone .
1902–03 she toured the USA, where she sang recordings for Victor Records and was hired by James Cassius Williamson for a concert tour of Australia and New Zealand. The young Percy Grainger was one of her companions on this tour . In 1904 she returned to England via South Africa. In 1905 she married the doctor Francis Frederick Muecke , the son of the Australian entrepreneur Hugo Carl Emil Muecke . 1908-09 she visited Australia again, again with Percy Granger. From 1913, she withdrew from the concert stage and only appeared at charity events.
Web links
- Ada Crossley at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Australian Dictionary of Biography - Crossley, Ada Jemima
- The Library of Nineteenth-Century Photography - Ada Crossley
- National Portrait Gallery - Ada Jemima Crossley
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Crossley, Ada |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crossley, Ada Jemima (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian opera singer (alto) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tarraville |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1929 |
| Place of death | Great Missenden |