Lalla Miranda

as Marguerite in "Faust" by Gounod

Lalla Miranda
1874-1944
Australian Soprano
After studies in London and Paris, she made her professional opera debut in The Hague in 1898. She then appeared in numerous operas in Amsterdam in successive years. In 1899 she was a resident artist at La Monnaie. She made several appearances at the Palais Garnier in Paris and at theatres in the French provences during the first two decades of the 20th century. In 1900-1901 and from 1907-1911 she was committed the Royal Opera House on London. In 1910 she was committed to both the Manhattan Opera Company and the Philadelphia Opera Company. She notably opened the 1910 season at the Manhattan Opera House in the title role of Donizetti's “Lucia di Lammermoor”, .In New York and Philadelphia she also sang Gilda in “Rigoletto”, Olympia in “The Tales of Hoffmann”, and the title role in “Lakmé”. After 1918 she was primarily active with the Carl Rosa Opera Company. She retired in the early 1920s.