Elsie Suddaby
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Elsie Suddaby, born 1893 Leeds, was a leading British lyric soprano of the inter-war years.
She was known as ‘The Lass With The Delicate Air’ (taken from the title of one of the most popular songs in her repertoire).
She was a pupil of Sir Edward Bairstow.
5 October 1938 she was one of the original 16 singers - lightest of the four soprano voices - in Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music. (The solo line set for her was ‘I am never merry when I hear sweet music.’)
She created the soprano part in VW’s Thanksgiving for Victory in 1945, and the following year she took part in the opening programmes for the BBC Third Programme, in a broadcast of Milton's masque Comus, along with Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie, Heddle Nash and Dylan Thomas.
Leeds Town Hall has a room named after her.
Elsie Suddaby died in England in 1980.
[edit] Reference
Radio Times, 27 September 1946.
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