| Biography | A Londoner, and was orginally intended for the scholastic profession, but when she left Cambridge Music soon claimed her, and before long she was studying singing with the famous baritione Dinh Gilly, whom she subsequently married.
Apart from her fame as Wagnerian singer (the productions of Wagner's operas at Covent Garden during the periond between 1924 and 1939 will not readily forget the richness and the authority of Edith Furmedge's singing in such roles as Erda and Fricka), she was a well-known figure at all the musical festivals in England, appearing with such famous conductors as Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Henry Wood, Bruno Walter, Furtwängler, Albert Coates, and many others. She was also a prominent member of the british National Opera Company, which did pioneer work for British Opera in the 1920s.
Her public was greatly increased with the coming of broadcasting, and her impressive voice and majestic sense of style came over particularly well on the air. Edith Furmedge was also well known as teacher of her art, carrying on after her husband's death the school of singing which he founded. |