Amy Sherwin

Frances Amy Lillian Sherwin ( born March 23, 1855 in Huonville / Tasmania, † September 20, 1935 ) was an Australian opera singer (soprano ).

Sherwin received singing and piano lessons from her mother and went occasionally to amateur performances. Your first professional lessons she received from William Russell and Frederick Augustus Packer, an organist and composer from Hobart. It was discovered in 1878 by members of William Saurin Lysters Royal Italian Opera on a concert tour through Tasmania by chance and persuaded to act with them in a performance of Don Pasquale at the Theatre Royal in Hobart as Norina.

After the success of this debut, she traveled with the opera troupe to Melbourne and there celebrated triumphs as' Tasmanian Nightingale ". 1879 she separated from Lysters opera company and traveled with her husband and manager Hugo Gorlitz to America. With Max Strakosch opera troupe she sang in San Francisco Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata and performed in New York and Boston, where she continues perfected her vocal training.

1882-83 she traveled to Italy and France, in the following year she made her debut at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London with the Carl Rosa Opera Company. After a trip through the USA and Canada in 1887, she returned to Australia, where she sang as a singer took part in Melbourne at the Queen's Jubilee Celebration Concert and occurred in Tasmania. 1888-89 she undertook a concert tour of Asia, which inter alia led to Calcutta, Colombo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe, Nagasaki, Yokohama and Tokyo.

After that she lived and worked for five years in Europe. A new concert tour led to South Africa in 1896, after which she joined again in Australia and New Zealand. 1898 she gave her farewell concerts at the Hobart Town Hall and settled in England. Finally she retired in 1908 from the stage.

Even before that Sherwin had begun to teach; her most famous students was the Scottish baritone Fraser underway, who accompanied her to Australia 1907-08. After separating from her husband Sherwin impoverished at the time of the First World War and was largely forgotten. When she became ill in 1934 admitted to the Charing Cross Hospital in London, the Mayor of Hobart in Tasmania hosted a fundraiser for their benefit your thank you letter was published on September 7, 1934 at the Mercury. At her funeral, the Tasmanian government sent a wreath with the inscription A tribute to the memory of a famous Tasmanian, from the Government of Tasmania.

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• Australian Dictionary of Biography - Sherwin, Frances Amy Lillian (1855 - 1935)
• Tasmania Department of Premier and Cabinet - Amy Sherwin (1855 - 1935) A Soprano who Became known as the Tasmanian Nightingal
• The Companion to Tasmanian History - Amy Sherwin

• Opera singer
• Soprano
• Australian
• Person ( Tasmania )
• Born in 1855
• Died in 1935
• Woman