Eleonora de Cisneros, American contralto, as Amneris, 1911 / May Moore

P1/349

item

1911

Graphic Materials, Photographs

446781

Digitised

Photographs - image 19.9 x 15 cm. , mount 28.3 x 21.3 cm. - 1 panel photoprint

The Melba-Williamson company opened 2 Sept 1911 in Sydney and ran for 8 weeks. Eleanora de Cisneros sang Amneris in Aida, omitted from the opening Sydney season (though sung on the return to Sydney from Melbourne). She returned to a triumphant welcome for a concert tour in 1912. -- Reference: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (pp. 164-165)

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Transferred from P1/Cisneros, Eleonora de (BM), December 2009
Digital order no:a4260049

May Moore -- photographer's stamp

With my best wishes and remembrances to Mr Goodman / Eleonora de Cisneros / Sydney 1911 -- signature on the lower edge of the mount