Sara Flowerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Sara Elizabeth Flower (c.1820 _ 1865) was a British-born contralto singer now almost forgotten to history who became Australia's first operatic diva. She began a very promising musical career in London in the 1840s but decamped to Australia late in 1849 for reasons that were, and still remain, obscure, since at the time she was considered England's answer to the great Italian contralto Marietta Alboni, then in London, and her professional future seemed secure. Very soon after her arrival in Melbourne early in 1850 on board a migrant ship she began her career as the Australian vocal phenomenon of the era. In 1852, fifty years before the triumphal return of Nellie Melba to Melbourne in1902, she displayed her remarkable capacities in Sydney in the first production in Australia of Bellini's iconic work, Norma, still considered a serious challenge by any aspirant to 'diva' status. Flower was, by definition then, Australia's first diva.