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Scottish soprano.

Dorothy Robertson was, for many years in the 1950s and '60s, a leading soprano with the amateur Glasgow Grand Opera Society. She joined the Scottish Opera Chorus on its foundation, and toured with the Opera For All company, as well as singing Woglinde in Scottish Opera's first production of Das Rheingold.

Roles in Scotland

Elena Helen of Troy: Mefistofele 1951
Margherita: Mefistofele 1951
Abigaille a slave, supposed elder daughter of Nabucco: Nabucco 1952
Lucia Lucy Ashton, Henry's Sister: Lucia di Lammermoor 1962
Elvira Silva's niece: Ernani 1963
Leonora a Duchess, lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Aragon: Trovatore 1965
Lady Macbeth: Macbeth 1966
Cio-Cio-San known as Madam Butterfly: Madam Butterfly 1966
Madam Butterfly 1967
Woglinde a Rhinemaiden: Rheingold 1967