CHRISTCHURCH SOPRANO
Miss Edna Graham In 8.8. C. Programme
SUCCESSFUL OVERSEAS CAREER Miss Edna Graham, a soprano whe left Christchurch in 1947 to take up a Royal Academy of Music scholarship in London, will be heard in a British Broadcasting Corporation programme of the New Zealand Music Society in London, to be broadcast by Station 3YC this evening. The daughter of Mr G. G. Graham and the late Mrs Graham, of Beckenham, Miss Graham was educated at the Christchurch Girls’ High. School and Canterbury University College School of Art. However, she received
all her early musical training fron her mother, and won the scholarshi] in 1943. She was unable to make usi
Miss Graham spent four years at the Royal Academy and won several awards. Since then she has had an outstanding sinking career in England and Europe. She has travelled extensively. She has sung at Covent Garden, with the Glyndebourne Opera, the Sadler’s Wells Company, and the Carl Rosa Company in leading parts. She was selected by Sir Thomas Beecham to take a leading role in the opera, “Ermilene.” Recently. Miss Graham has been taking part in competitions at Munich with some of the most prominent sineers in Europe. The latest information Mr Graham has is that she has been recalled.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27764, 15 September 1955, Page 12
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