She came from
Trecastle (South Wales). Her real name
was Sara Davies [ Davies is a very
common family name in Wales. ]
From the BBC
Archives: She was the soprano at the
Weds 25 Sep 1912 Queen's Hall
"Proms"
[ I've copied details
of the programme below ]
From newspaper
archives:
London Standard
(Newspaper) – Weds July 8, 1914,
SARA MELITA, RINALDO
, DELPHI THEATRE
Advert in “The
Stars and Stripes”, France Friday
July 5th, 1918
for the London
Coliseum (described as "Europe's Principal Variety Theatre" )
"Present
attractions include.. " (amongst others) ".. Sara Melita.. "
A review dated
July 28th, 1923 relating to the "Welsh concert at Queen's Hall,
London, on Wednesday evening" reports:
"Miss Sara
Melita has clearly under-gone a long and careful training ; she showed an
astonishing mastery of technique, especially in the difficult aria of Verdi's,
" Ah ! Fors e lui," .
[Other artistes were
Miss Elsie Owen (violin), Walter Glynne (tenor) ]
Kindest Regards Trevor
(Davies. Almost certainly no
relation to Sara )
.................................................................................................................................................
1912 Programme &
Artistes
[ Conductor, Henry
Wood; Robert Burnett, base-baritone; The New Queen’s Hall Orchestra]
Programme:
Felix
Mendelssohn: Overture 'The Hebrides'
('Fingal's Cave')
Edward Elgar: The Light of Life, Op 29
Giuseppe Verdi: La
Traviata - 'È strano! è strano!'
Claude Debussy:
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Suite, Op 71a
Benjamin Dale: Concertstück (premiere)
Charles‐François
Gounod: Le Vallon (arr. Henry
Wood)
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart: Symphony No 39 in E flat
major, K543
Frederic Hymen
Cowen: 4 English Dances in the Olden
Style Set 1
Sir Henry Rowley
Bishop: The Comedy of Errors:
"Lo! Here the Gentle Lark"
Sir Arthur
Somervell: Maud. No. 4 O let
the solid ground (Proms premiere)
Maud. No. 5
Birds in the high hall garden (Proms premiere)
Richard Wagner:
Lohengrin. No. 17 Prelude Act 3
I wish to thank Trevor
Davies for providing me information
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