Mary Garden [SEP] voice type
Mary Garden
Mary Garden (20 February 1874 – 3 January 1967) was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century. She spent the latter part of her childhood and youth in the United States and eventually became an American citizen, although she lived in France for many years and eventually retired to Scotland, where she died.
Described as "the Sarah Bernhardt of opera", Garden was an exceptional actress as well as a talented singer. She was
its type in the United States.
A group of singing teachers incorporated it in the state of New York on 27 November 1906 as the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
The first annual meeting of the new organization was held on 7 January 1908, at Steinway Hall in New York City.
The English music critic and voice teacher Herman Klein (1856–1934) was the first chairman.
Founding members included Enrico Caruso, Emma Eames, Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Marcella Sembrich.