Edna Thornton Suggest updates
Born Bradford, 1875.
Died Worthing, 15 July 1964.
English contralto.
Edna Thornton had a long career with the major British opera companies, particularly as an interpreter of Wagner.
She worked at Covent Garden from 1905 to 1910, appearing in the Ring cycles of 1908 and 1909. These were conducted by Karl Richter, and her roles were Erda and Waltraute. With the Denhof company she added Flosshilde and First Norn.
She toured with the Quinlan and Beecham companies, returning to Covent Garden between 1919 and 1923. After the BNOC was established she worked with it extensively.
Other roles in her repertoire for which she was noted included Dalila and Amneris as well as Brangäne. She also appeared in the premiere of Holst's comic opera The Perfect Fool at Covent Garden in 1923.
Roles in Scotland
- Flosshilde a Rhinemaiden
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Götterdämmerung 1910
Götterdämmerung 1911
- Waltraute a Valkyrie, Brünnhilde's sister
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Götterdämmerung 1910
Götterdämmerung 1911
Götterdämmerung 1923
- First Norn
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Götterdämmerung 1910
Götterdämmerung 1911
- Erda mother of the Norns and Valkyries
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Siegfried 1910
Siegfried 1911
Siegfried 1922
Siegfried 1923
Siegfried 1924
- Waltraute a Valkyrie
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Valkyrie 1910
Valkyrie 1911
- Erda goddess of earth and wisdom
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Rheingold 1910
Rheingold 1911
- Flosshilde a Rhinemaiden
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Rheingold 1910
Rheingold 1911
- Brangäne Isolde's attendant
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Tristan und Isolde 1911
- Dalila a Philistine priestess
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Samson and Delilah 1919
Samson and Delilah 1922
Samson and Delilah 1923
- Amneris daughter of the King of Egypt
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Aïda 1920
Aïda 1922
Aïda 1923
Aïda 1924
- Fricka Wotan's estranged wife
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Valkyrie 1923
- Fricka wife of Wotan and goddess of marriage
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Rheingold 1923
- Mother
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Perfect Fool 1923
Perfect Fool 1924
- Amelfa Dodon's nurse
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Golden Cockerel 1924
Golden Cockerel 1925