Mary Henderson

Mary Henderson Buckley (born December 17, 1912 in Longueuil , † February 6, 2006 in New York City ) was a Canadian singer (soprano) and vocal teacher.

Henderson first studied violin at McGill University . She then took singing lessons first with Henri Pontbriand and Pauline Donalda in Montreal and later in New York with C. Waldemar Alves and Paul Althouse . As a member of the Dominion Grand Opera Company , she sang Violetta in La Traviata and Marguerite in Faust in Montreal in 1940 . In March 1942 she appeared in a Sarah Fischer concert , and two months later at the opening performance of Donalda's Opera Guild of Montreal .

In autumn 1942 she became a member of the New York New Opera Company , where she Lisa in roles such as The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky and Parasja in Modest Mussorgsky The Fair at Sorochyntsi had. From 1943 to 1945 she toured the USA and Canada with Fortune Gallo's San Carlo Opera Company and performed around four hundred performances as Aida, Marguerite, Micaela, Nedda, Violetta, Mimi and Butterfly. At the Metropolitan Opera , where she was engaged for two years, she made her debut in 1946 as Micaëla in Georges Bizet's Carmen . She then toured with ensembles such as the Wagner Opera and the Nine O'Clock Opera , sang concerts with orchestras and appeared on the radio. After 1950 she taught at the Manhattan School of Music with her husband, conductor Emerson Buckley . From 1963 she taught singing at the University of Miami .

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• Mary Henderson at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• The Canadian Encyclopedia - Mary Henderson
• Sun Sentinel, Feb 11, 2006: Mary Buckley, 93, Taught Singers In South Florida