Amy Eliza Castles

Amy Eliza Castles
Amy Eliza Castles in 1917
Amy Eliza Castles in 1917
Born (1880-07-25)25 July 1880
Melbourne, Australia
Died 19 November 1951(1951-11-19) (aged 71)
Fitzroy, Australia
Occupation soprano

Amy Eliza Castles (25 July 1880 – 19 November 1951), was an Australian soprano.[1]

Biography

Castles was born on 25 July 1880, in Melbourne, Australia, to Joseph Castles and Mary Ellen Fallon. She was educated at St Kilian's primary school and St Mary's College.[1]

She made her United States début at Carnegie Hall in 1917.[2]

She lived with her sister, Dolly Castles, in Camberwell. She died at a hospital in Fitzroy, Australia, on 19 November 1951. She was buried in Box Hill Cemetery. Castles never married.[1][3][4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Amy Eliza Castles". Australian Dictionary of Biography.
  2. ↑ "Miss Amy Castles Sings. An Australian Soprano Heard in Carnegie Hall" (PDF). The New York Times. April 12, 1917. Retrieved 2015-04-18.
  3. ↑ Dolly Castles, soprano: Bendigo girl makes good overseas, Australian Postal History, ...She was born in Bendigo in 1884, she...made her way to America where she appeared as the principal soprano in the first production of the musical The Tik-Tok Man of Oz,...which was shown in Los Angeles on 31 March 1913. She retired from the stage after World War 1, and died in 1971...
  4. ↑ "Miss Dolly Castles. A Chatty Interview". Critic. VIII, (412). South Australia. 30 August 1905. p. 17. Retrieved 13 June 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miss._Dolly_Castles,_1907_(8285826381).jpg

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