Born in Sussex, she made her début in London at the Albert Hall in the "Golden Legend," and in "Orfeo" at the Lyceum. Since these appearances she has been much in demand as a singer. Sussex as a traditional county. ... This is an article referring to the actor Albert Hall. ... The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine is a collection of fanciful hagiographies, lives of the saints, that became a late mediæval best seller. ... Orfeo (LOrfeo, favola in musica) is one of the earliest works recognized as an opera, composed by Claudio Monteverdi with text by Alessandro Striggio for the annual carnival of Mantua. ... A lyceum can be an educational institution (often a school of secondary education in Europe), or a public hall used for cultural events like concerts. ...
She married a fellow singer, Kennerley Rumford, and changed her name to Clara Butt-Rumford.
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Clara’s first teacher, a Miss Brooks, trained her as a soprano, but after she had been taken to hear the great American contralto Belle Cole at the Colston Hall, Bristol, Clara realized that she, too, was a contralto and set about at once to try to imitate the great Belle Cole.
Miss Butt noticed the growing excitement of the examiners but believed they were laughing at her, so when she came to the line “Kings have trembled when I came, reading doom upon my face!” she sank down to the low E with all the power she could muster.
ClaraButt’s is the most important contralto voice to be heard on records, the greatest since Alboni (whose virtuosity, however, she could scarcely rival).
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