• Title
  Florence Austral, dramatic soprano, 1929 / unknown photographer
• Call number
  P1/78
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1929
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442898
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 silver gelatin photograph - 25.3 x 20.2 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  In 1929 Austral made her Metropolitan Opera House debut singing Brunnhilde in a concert version of Gotterdammerung with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra -- Reference: Florence Austral : one of the wonder voices of the world / James Moffat. Sydney : Currency Press in association with National Library of Australia, 1995
  
  Austral toured the United States annually, 1925-1935 -- Source: Florence Austral [compact disc], Lebendige Vergangenheit (record label)
  
  "One of the wonder voices of the World" -- Dame Nellie Melba
  
  "The Waters of the Rhine seem to mount high, and over all rides the triumphant voice of Florence Austral as Brunnhilde. Her singing can justly be called queenly. Even after hearing the glorious singing of Frida Leider on other records, Austral's triumphant voice remains in the mind." -- Reference: Neville Cardus, Manchester Guardian, 1928
  
  "In the early twenties Florence Austral was the most important recording artist we had, thanks to the beauty, power and compass of her voice." -- Fred Gaisberg, HMV (later EMI)
  
  For a biography of Austral, see: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.7, 1891-1939. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1979 (pp. 124-125, also 49-50, under Amadio, John Bell) ; also, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (website)
  
  For a biography of Austral, see: Florence Austral : one of the wonder voices of the world / James Moffat. Sydney : Currency Press in association with National Library of Australia, 1995
  
  For a biography of Austral, see: When Austral sang : the biography of Florence Austral / Michael Elphinstone and Wayne Hancock. Magill, S. Aust. : Wayne Hancock and Michael Elphinstone, 2005
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Austral, Florence (BM), October 2009
  
  "Florence Austral / soprano" -- stamp in ink on the reverse
  Digital order no:a4157076
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Kindest greetings / Florence Austral / New York. 1929" -- signature in ink, lower right corner of photograph
  "Sims / 109 Beetle Av / Wed / R/D / Wking return" (?) -- in pencil on the reverse
  "Australian singer 2/2/-" -- in a pencil in a different hand on the reverse
• Subject
  Austral, Florence, 1894-1968.
  Sopranos (Singers)--Autographs.
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  portraits
  singers
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3312126

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