Ritchie, Margaret (Mabel)
Ritchie, Margaret [Mabel] (b Grimsby, 1903; d Ewelme, Oxon., 1969). Eng. soprano. Leading Eng. exponent of Schubert Lieder. Sang in opera at SW 1944, Glyndebourne 1946–7, CG, EOG, etc. First to sing wordless sop. role in Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia Antartica (1953), also in film mus. (1948). Created Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia (1946) and Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring (1947).
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