Edyth Walker Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Edyth Walker Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Edyth Walker (March , â€" February , ) was an American opera singer

who had an active international career from the s through the s. She

began her career performing roles from the mezzo-soprano repertory,

but later successfully added several soprano parts to her repertoire

as well. While she did perform in Italian and French language operas,

she had a clear affinity for works in the German language. She

particularly excelled in the operas of Richard Wagner. After retiring

from the stage, she was active as a voice teacher in both France and

the United States. Her voice is preserved on several gramophone

recordings, made mainly for His Master's Voice, between -.Born in

Hopewell, New York, Walker had her initial musical training at her

church in her native town where she sang in the choir and began

performing solos at the age of . Her family moved to Rome, New York,

where she graduated from Rome Free Academy in and continued to be

active as a soloist at her church. After teaching for several years,

she entered and won a singing competition which provided her with a

scholarship enabling her to study singing in Europe. She arrived in

Dresden, Germany, in where she became a pupil of Aglaia Orgeni. She

later studied singing with Marianne Brandt in Vienna. Walker made her

professional debut as a concert singer at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig in

. She made her professional opera debut on November at the Berlin

State Opera as Fidès in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le prophète. The

following year she became a member of the Vienna State Opera where she

was a leading mezzo-soprano with the company for eight seasons. She

notably sang the role of Magdalena in the Vienna premiere of Wilhelm

Kienzl's Der Evangelimann in . She was also much admired in Vienna for

her interpretation of the role of Amneris in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida.
Edyth Walker Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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