Rosina Raisbeck [SEP] voice type
Rosina Raisbeck
Phyllis Rosina Raisbeck MBE (28 July 191623 December 2006) was an Australian opera and concert mezzo-soprano singer. Her fine voice was basically a dramatic mezzo, with a warm middle register supporting strong top notes.
Early life.
Rosina Raisbeck was born Ballarat, Victoria on 28 July 1916 but grew up in Maitland and Newcastle, New South Wales. In 1942 she began vocal studies at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music in Sydney, where she worked for five years. During that period she
seasons were cancelled.
She sang at the memorial concert for Rosina Raisbeck in early 2007. That year she appeared in a straight acting role in the Melbourne season of John Misto's "Harp on the Willow", a play with music about the life of the Irish singer Mary O'Hara, starring Marina Prior as O'Hara. In the play, Carden and Prior sang "The Flower Duet" from Delibes' "Lakmé".
She was Patron of the now defunct National Voice Centre at the University of Sydney, the