785) Frances Alda

Frances Alda (1879 - 1952). New Zealand-born opera singer, raised in Australia.

Alda's "red hair, resonant voice and startling figure dominating the halls wherein she trod.."

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Alda was a forthright woman, her temper, as she noted, as fiery as her red hair.

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