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Emily Soldene Suggest updates

Born London, 30 September 1838.

Died London, 8 April 1912.

English soprano.

Emily Soldene had a distinguished career touring Britain in leading roles of the operettas that were being imported from France, and, to a lesser extent, Austria.

Soldene began her career singing in music-hall, using the name Miss Fitzhenry.

Under the management of Charles Morton, Soldene became a leading character of the London music-hall. She began at the Canterbury, and, after a transfer to the Oxford, switched from music-hall to operetta, working in Islington at the Philharmonic Theatre.

She continued to tour widely in Britain, until, with a successful American tour behind her, she eventually retired to Australia for a period, following her marriage.

Soldene left a memoir, My Theatrical and Musical Recollections (1897).