Margaret Ismay

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Margaret Ismay
Education Royal Academy of Music
Occupation Opera singer
Years active fl. 1910–
Awards Gilbert Betjemann Prize

Margaret Ismay was a British opera singer. [1] While a student at the Royal Academy of Music, she was awarded the Academy's Gilbert Betjemann Prize "for operatic singing" in 1909. [1] [2] She later had the medal converted into a coin watch by Cartier. [1]

Ismay appeared in The Balkan Princess in 1910.

In 2013 her great-nephew showed the medal on an episode of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow . [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Stowe House 1". Antiques Roadshow. Series 35. Episode 13. 22 February 2013. BBC . Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  2. "Prize board, Gilbert Betjemann Prize, Royal Academy of Music, 1897-47 (Board 1/2)" [2003.1167]". Royal Academy of Music . Retrieved 19 March 2013.