Christie MacDonald

Christie MacDonald (born February 28, 1875 in Pictou , Nova Scotia , † July 25, 1962 in Westport , Connecticut ) was an American singer (soprano) of Canadian origin.

MacDonald sang in church choirs in her youth and had her first singing lessons with John Stromberg . She later continued her education in Boston, where she had her first stage appearance as a chorister in Francis Wilson's production of the opera Erminie by Edward Jakobowski . In the same year she sang her first solo role at Pauline Hall in Edgar Stillman Kelley's Puritania .

In 1900 MacDonald received the title role in the music show Princess Chic by Kirk La Shelle and Julian Edwards in New York . In the same year she appeared in The Cadet Girl and Hodge, Podge & Co , in 1902 in The Toreador , in 1904 in An English Daisy and The Sho-Gun and in 1906 in Mexicana and The Belle Of Mayfair .

MacDonald had great success as Princess Bozena in Heinrich Reinhardt's operetta The Spring Maid (libretto by Harry B. Smith and Robert B. Smith ), which had 192 performances at the Liberty Theater from late 1910 . She recorded the tracks Two Little Love Bees and Day Dreams, Visions of Bliss on Victor Records the following year . In 1913 she sang the role of Sylvia in Victor Herbert's operetta Sweethart , which Herbert had composed for her. She also recorded excerpts from this operetta with Victor Records. In 1920 she said goodbye to the stage as Lady Hollyrod in Leslie Stuart's musical Floradora .

In 1992, the Coastline Theater, Macdonald's birthplace, Pictou, performed the musical Christie , which traces her life.

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SURNAME	MacDonald, Christie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American singer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pictou , Nova Scotia , Canada
DATE OF DEATH	July 25, 1962
Place of death	Westport , Connecticut , United States