Rosina Martha Hozanah Palmer
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Rosina Martha Hozanah Palmer (August 27, 1844 – June 16, 1932) was an Australian opera singer.
Palmer was the daughter of Jerome Carandini, Marquis of Sarzano and Marie Carandini and was born in Hobart, Tasmania. As a child she accompanied her mother on a concert tour in the east, and at an early age developed a soprano voice of excellent range and quality. She toured widely in Australia and New Zealand and married Edward Palmer, a bank official, and settled at Melbourne. There she became the leading soprano singer of her time, taking the soprano part in the performances of the Philharmonic and other well-known societies.[1][2]
Well trained and a thorough musician, Palmer could be relied upon to give an excellent rendering of the music of her part. There is a well-known story that on one occasion, the tenor's voice failing during a performance, Mrs Palmer sang his music at sight in addition to her own. After her retirement Palmer was a successful teacher of singing. She died at the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra on 16 June 1932. Her husband had died some years before, and she was survived by a son and two daughters of her eight children.[1][2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Serle, Percival. Palmer, Rosina Martha Hozanah 1844-1932). Dictionary of Australian Biography/Project Gutenberg Australia. Retrieved on 2008-04-03.
- ^ a b Radic, Maureen Thérèse (1974). Palmer, Rosina Martha Hosanah (1844 - 1932). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved on 2008-04-03.
