Muriel Brunskill [SEP] voice type
Muriel Brunskill
Muriel Brunskill (18 December 1899 – 18 February 1980) was an English contralto of the mid-twentieth century. Her career included concert, operatic and recital performance from the early 1920s until the 1950s. She worked with many of the leading musicians of her day, including Sir Thomas Beecham, Albert Coates, Felix Weingartner and Sir Henry Wood.
Early years.
Muriel Brunskill was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, daughter of Edmund Capstick Brunskill. She studied singing in London and Paris with Blanche
of the Angel in "The Dream of Gerontius" conducted by Malcolm Sargent on 10 May 1941, the last concert given in the Queen's Hall, which was destroyed by a German incendiary bomb that night in an air raid. In 1942, to mark Arthur Sullivan's centenary week, the BBC broadcast "The Golden Legend" from the Royal Albert Hall, conducted by Wood with soloists including Muriel Brunskill.
Later years.
In 1949 Brunskill made her last operatic appearance, as Ortrud in "Lohengrin" at Covent