Alice Esty Autograph

Alice Esty
1864 – 1935
American soprano

Toured United States with the violinist Camilla Urso.Went to England 1891, and performed with the singer Adelina Patti at the Royal Albert Hall and then joined the Carl Rosa Opera Company, Besides touring with the Carl Rosa company through the 1890s, she had numerous concert engagements around the United Kingdom, singing with the Royal Choral Society, the Philharmonic Society, and other groups.

She continued singing into the 1910s, working with the Moody-Manners Opera Company as well as the Carl Rosa company.Around 1920 she began teaching in the Carl Rosa Opera Company's newly formed opera school.
Roles include Mimi in the first British staging of Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème (1897), Eva in the British premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Effie Deans in the premiere of Hamish MacCunn's opera Jeanie Deans. She also sang in Charles Gounod's Faust, Georges Bizet's Carmen, Wagner's Lohengrin and Tannhäuser, and several other operas.