Edna de Lima (born Edna Burton; c. after 1875 – died after 1959), later known as Edna Burton Van Dyke, was an American lyric soprano singer and translator.
American soprano singer
Edna de Lima, from a 1917 publication.
Early life
Edna O. Burton was from Lima, Ohio, the daughter of Dr. Enos G. Burton and Emma Jane Brown Burton.[1][2] She took her professional name from her hometown.[3] She studied voice in Paris with Marcella Sembrich and Jean de Reszke.[4]
Career
Abroad
In 1910, Edna de Lima appeared in the operas Louise, Gli Ugonotti, Faust and La bohème at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in London.[5] Edna de Lima debuted at the Imperial Opera House in Vienna in 1914.[6] She sang a role in Faust again in London in 1923.[7] In 1925, she traveled to South Africa for a performing tour.[8]
In the United States
Edna de Lima first sang at New York's Aeolian Hall in 1916.[9] She made her Chicago concert debut in 1917, when a reviewer declared that "Nature has been bounteous to Mme. de Lima in the bestowal of personal attractiveness and grace of manner in addition to the crystalline purity of her voice."[10] She was billed as "formerly of the Vienna Opera" when she appeared at the Stadium Concerts in New York in the summer of 1918.[11] She performed on a bill with pianist Winifred Byrd, tenor Dan Beddoe, and violinist Michel Gusikoff, for the Globe Music Club later in 1918.[12] She translated lyrics for recitalists, including Margaret Matzenauer. During World War I, she sang at concerts for the Liberty Bond Campaign,[13] and for the Red Cross.[14]
Edna de Lima, from a 1918 publication.
Personal life
Edna Burton married John Wesley Van Dyke, an oil company executive,[15] in Paris in 1908,[16] on the condition that she be allowed to continue her singing career, because "the divine fire of music was in her blood and in her brain".[17] She was not mentioned in Van Dyke's obituary in 1939.[18] However, "Mrs. Edna Van Dyke" was mentioned as still alive and living in New York City in her sister Elma Burton Baxter's obituary in 1960.[19]
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