Victoria Elliott Suggest updates
Born Gateshead 1923.
Died London, 22 February 1986.
English soprano.
Victoria Elliott was a leading member of the Sadler's Wells company for several years. She studied with Rosetta Pampanini, and was with Carl Rosa 1945-7. Starting in the chorus, she very quickly graduated to singing principal roles including Marguerite, Gilda, Mimì, and Butterfly.
From 1947-51 she concentrated on concert and oratorio work before joining Sadler’s Wells in 1952 to sing leading lyric parts, including Tosca, Violetta, Butterfly, Mařenka, Leonora, Tatyana, Rosalinde and Maddalena di Coigny. She created the role of Emma Hamilton in Lennox Berkeley's Nelson (1954).
Her only Covent Garden appearances were as Lady Macbeth and Santuzza in the 1959/60 season. In the later 1960s and 70s she toured widely in concerts of Viennese operetta. She can be heard as Rosalinde in the Sadler’s Wells recording of excerpts from Fledermaus.
Roles in Scotland
- Page to the Duchess
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Rigoletto 1945
- Nedda Canio's wife
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Pagliacci 1946
Pagliacci 1963
- Antonia Crespel's daughter
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Tales of Hoffmann 1946
Tales of Hoffmann 1947
- Marguerite
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Faust 1947
- Mimì a seamstress
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Bohème 1947
- Micaëla a peasant girl
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Carmen 1947
- Violetta Valéry a courtesan
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Traviata 1957
Traviata 1958
- Giorgetta Michele's wife, aged twenty-five
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Tabarro 1957
- Leonora a Duchess, lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Aragon
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Trovatore 1957
- Mařenka daughter of Krušina and Ludmila
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Bartered Bride 1957
- Floria Tosca a famous singer
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Tosca 1957
Tosca 1961
Tosca 1962
- Maddalena Madeleine de Coigny
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Andrea Chénier 1960
- Cio-Cio-San known as Madam Butterfly
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Madam Butterfly 1960