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Frances Alda (born Fanny Jane Davis) (May 31, 1879 - September 18, 1952) was a New Zealand-born soprano. She achieved fame as an operatic diva during the first three decades of the 20th Century due to her outstanding singing voice and colourful personality.
Alda was born in Christchurch into a musical family and raised as a child in Melbourne, Australia. She sang in productions of Gilbert and Sullivan in Melbourne before leaving the Antipodes for Europe at the age of 22 in order to undertake...
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