Madam Estelle P Clough

As she appeard in the stage production of Aida.

Estelle Pinckney Clough, (1866-1929), soprano, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and probably died in the same area. She began her singing career in the 1880s giving concerts in Worcester and Boston. During the 1890s she appeared in concerts in New York and along the East Coast. In 1903 her first major break came when she sang the title role in Verdi's Aida in Theodore Drury's New York production. When England's renowned Anglo-African composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor came to the United States to conduct his work The Childhood of Hiawatha in 1904, Clough was one of the featured soloists. The concert was given in Washington, D.C., Clough continued her concert singing career during the years that followed. In the 1930s she formed her own voice studio in Worcester.

Sources: Colored American Magazine (1902 issue);African American Concert Singers Before 1950, by Darryl Glenn Nettles