Edith Della Pergola (b Leb). Soprano, teacher, b Cluj, Rumania, 12 Jun
1915; d Montreal 2 Jul 2009; naturalized Canadian 1961. Edith Della
Pergola studied voice at the Bucharest Royal Academy of Music, where her
teacher was Luciano
Della Pergola, whom she married in 1935. Leaving the academy in
1939, she obtained a scholarship to study in Florence and made her
Florentine debut that year as Mimi in La Bohème at the Teatro
Comunale. She sang in numerous orchestral concerts in Florence before
rejoining her husband at the Alberto Della Pergola Conservatory in
Bucharest and teaching there 1942-7; she performed for 11 years with the
Bucharest Opera as lead soprano. Engaged by the Vienna Staatsoper in
1947, she sang the title role in Aida, followed by the title
roles in Tosca and Madama Butterfly and Amelia in Un
Ballo in Maschera. She went on to the Zürich opera and also appeared
1950-2 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, where she sang the role of
the Amica in the Italian premiere (1950) of Von Heute auf Morgen,
a comic opera by Schoenberg. She was a guest at theatres in Antwerp,
Brussels, Frankfurt, and Munich. In 1955 she and her husband moved to
Montreal, where she taught and, jointly with him, directed the McGill
Opera Studio. After 1977 she continued the workshop alone until her
retirement in 1989 when she was appointed professor emeritus at McGill
University. Among her pupils was Jane Ellison, a noted Montreal
teacher of pop singers. Della Pergola gave recitals for CBC
where she also performed in the programs "The
Little Symphonies" on radio and "L'Heure du concert".on TV. In 1946
she received the decoration of the Order of Cultural Merit from King
Michael of Rumania.
In 1994, Della Pergola was invested as a member of the Order
of Canada. In 2002 she was inducted into the Canadian Opera Hall of
Fame.
Writings
Della Pergola, Edith and Luciano; Rea, John, ed. Opera
at McGill: The Della Pergola Years 1956-1989 (Montreal 1991)
Author
Nadia Turbide
Bibliography
McLean,
Eric. "Great Canadian musical figures of the past: Luciano and Edith
Della Pergola," Opera Canada, Fall 1993 Turp, Richard. "Grand tradition: Edith Della
Pergola," Opera Canada, Summer 2003 Chan, Wah Keung. "Edith Della Pergola: A beautiful
life," La Scena Musicale, Dec 2002 - Jan 2003
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