Edna de Lima

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Edna de Lima
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Born
Edna Burton

(1879-07-15)July 15, 1879
DiedApril 23, 1968(1968-04-23) (aged 88)
Other namesEdna Burton Van Dyke
Occupation(s)Soprano singer and Translator
Years active1910-1918
Spouse
(m. 1908;died 1939)

Edna de Lima (born Edna Burton; 15 July 1879 - 23 April 1968), [1] later known as Edna Burton Van Dyke, was an American lyric soprano singer and translator.

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Early life

Edna O. Burton was from Lima, Ohio, the daughter of Dr. Enos G. Burton and Emma Jane Brown Burton. [2] [3] She took her professional name from her hometown. [4] She studied voice in Paris with Marcella Sembrich and Jean de Reszke. [5]

Career

Abroad

In 1910, Edna de Lima appeared in the operas Louise , Gli Ugonotti , Faust and La bohème at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in London. [6] Edna de Lima debuted at the Imperial Opera House in Vienna on 24 January 1911 in a tiny role in Meyerbeers Le prophète . After this first performance she returned to Vienna in October of the same year, as a member of the ensemble. She performed in small and large roles across the repertoire of the Imperial Opera House. Six times she sang Mimì in La bohème , four times Micaëla in Carmen , seven times Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro , once Urbain in Les Huguenots and twenty times Lola in Cavalleria rusticana . The rest were mainly smaller roles like Wellgunde in Der Ring des Nibelungen or one of the flowermaidens in Parsifal , her last performance in Vienna on 22 June 1914. [7] [8] She sang a role in Faust again in London in 1923. [9] In 1925, she traveled to South Africa for a performing tour. [10]

In the United States

Edna de Lima first sang at New York's Aeolian Hall in 1916. [11] She made her Chicago concert debut in 1917, when a reviewer declared that "Nature has been bounteous to Mme. de Lima in the bestowal of personal attractiveness and grace of manner in addition to the crystalline purity of her voice." [12] She was billed as "formerly of the Vienna Opera" when she appeared at the Stadium Concerts in New York in the summer of 1918. [13] She performed on a bill with pianist Winifred Byrd, tenor Dan Beddoe, and violinist Michel Gusikoff, for the Globe Music Club later in 1918. [14] She translated lyrics for recitalists, including Margaret Matzenauer. During World War I, she sang at concerts for the Liberty Bond Campaign, [15] and for the Red Cross. [16]

Edna de Lima, from a 1918 publication EdnadeLima1918.png
Edna de Lima, from a 1918 publication

Personal life

Edna Burton married John Wesley Van Dyke, an oil company executive, [17] in Paris in 1908, [18] on the condition that she be allowed to continue her singing career, because "the divine fire of music was in her blood and in her brain". [19] She was not mentioned in Van Dyke's obituary in 1939. [20] However, "Mrs. Edna Van Dyke" was mentioned as still alive and living in New York City in her sister Elma Burton Baxter's obituary in 1960. [21]

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References

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  2. "Coming of Edna de Lima Eagerly Anticipated" Lima News (November 4, 1917): 18. via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  3. Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties, Ohio (A. W. Bowen 1896): 218.
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  5. "Edna de Lima to Sing in Chicago" Musical Leader (November 8, 1917): 469.
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  13. "Edna de Lima at the Stadium" Musical Courier (July 25, 1918): 39.
  14. "Globe Music Club" Musical Courier (October 24, 1918): 8.
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  16. "Bass Clef Concert for Red Cross" Norwich Bulletin (May 20, 1918): 10. via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  17. "Social Paris Grows Dull" New York Times (August 9, 1908): 22. via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  18. "Paris" Musical Courier (August 12, 1908): 13.
  19. "Oil Millionaire's Wife Clings to Stage Career" Salt Lake Tribune (January 8, 1911): 18. via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
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  21. "Mrs. Elma Baxter" Lima News (January 20, 1960).