Rose Hersee [SEP] voice type
Rose Hersee
Rose Hersee (13 December 1845 – 26 November 1924) was an English operatic soprano. She was a founder-member of the Carl Rosa Opera Company and later formed and performed in the Rose Hersee Opera Company.
Biography.
Hersee was the daughter of Henry Hersee (1820–1896), a teacher, critic for "The Observer", librettist of Cowen's "Pauline" (1876), and translator of operas including "The Merry Wives of Windsor", "Carmen" and "Aida"
Moore, an analytical chemist, and his wife, Emily (née Strachan). Four of her sisters sang on the concert platform or the stage, including Eva (1870–1955), Jessie (d. 1910) and Bertha Moore (?-?). 
She was educated at Miss Pringle's school and then Boswell House College, Brighton and sang in the church choir. After leaving school in 1887, she won the Victoria Scholarship to study singing at the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music. She then studied voice with Rose Hersee