Edmund Burke, Canadian bass, as Mephistopheles in Faust, 1911 / May Moore

P1/272

item

1911

Graphic Materials, Photographs

446704

Digitised

Photographs - 1 silver gelatin photoprint (sepia toned) - image 20.3 x 14 cm., on mount (trimmed) 31.2 x 21 cm.

The Melba-Williamson company opened 2 Sept 1911 in Sydney and ran for 8 weeks. Burke sang opposite a "mildly effective" Korolewicz-Wayda as Marguerite and John McCormack as Faust. "Melba was occupied with Violetta, but later took over Marguerite, a role in which she had no need to fear competition." -- Reference: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (p.164)

Out of copyright: created before 1955

Transferred from P1/Burke, Edmund (BM), December 2009

State Library of Victoria has this photograph in their Picture Collection - call number: PCV LTAEF 84
Digital order no:a4177071

To Mr Goodmann / Souvenir of our Season / at Sydney / Sept-Oct 1911 -- signature on the lower edge of the mount
Below photograph: May Moore