• Title
  Madame Elsa Stralia as Australia, ca. 1919 [signed postcard]
• Call number
  P1/1704
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1919
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442371
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 postacard - 13.1 cm. x 8.8 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Elsa Stralia, born Elsa Fischer, studied singing with Elise Wiedermann and Lily Slapoffski at the Marshall-Hall Conservatorium, Melb. before leaving for Europe in 1910. She studied with Mathilde Marchesi and sang in Beecham's Covent Garden opera season in 1913 and later at La Scala. On her Sydney debut she received a floral representation of the ladder of fame from Galli-Curci. In 1935 she remarried and settled in Australia. -- Reference: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (pp.200-201)
• Scope and Content
  Stralia wears a veiled headdress featuring the Southern Cross
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Stralia, Madame Elsa (BM), July 2010
  Digital order no:a4364004
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Sincerely yours / Elsa Stralia / 1st Jan 1920 -- signature lower right hand corner of the postcard
• Name
  Stralia, Elsa
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  national symbols
  portraits
  postcards
  singers
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3324727

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