Edna de Lima

Edna de Lima (born Edna Burton; c. after 1875 – died after 1959), later known as Edna Burton Van Dyke, was an American lyric soprano singer and translator.

Edna de Lima, from a 1917 publication.

Early life

Edna O. Burton was from Lima, Ohio, the daughter of Dr. Enos G. Burton and Emma Jane Brown Burton.[1][2] She took her professional name from her hometown.[3] She studied voice in Paris with Marcella Sembrich and Jean de Reszke.[4]

Career

Abroad

In 1910, Edna de Lima appeared in the operas Louise, Gli Ugonotti, Faust and La bohème at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in London.[5] Edna de Lima debuted at the Imperial Opera House in Vienna in 1914.[6] She sang a role in Faust again in London in 1923.[7] In 1925, she traveled to South Africa for a performing tour.[8]

In the United States

Edna de Lima first sang at New York's Aeolian Hall in 1916.[9] She made her Chicago concert debut in 1917, when a reviewer declared that "Nature has been bounteous to Mme. de Lima in the bestowal of personal attractiveness and grace of manner in addition to the crystalline purity of her voice."[10] She was billed as "formerly of the Vienna Opera" when she appeared at the Stadium Concerts in New York in the summer of 1918.[11] She performed on a bill with pianist Winifred Byrd, tenor Dan Beddoe, and violinist Michel Gusikoff, for the Globe Music Club later in 1918.[12] She translated lyrics for recitalists, including Margaret Matzenauer. During World War I, she sang at concerts for the Liberty Bond Campaign,[13] and for the Red Cross.[14]

Edna de Lima, from a 1918 publication.

Personal life

Edna Burton married John Wesley Van Dyke, an oil company executive,[15] in Paris in 1908,[16] on the condition that she be allowed to continue her singing career, because "the divine fire of music was in her blood and in her brain".[17] She was not mentioned in Van Dyke's obituary in 1939.[18] However, "Mrs. Edna Van Dyke" was mentioned as still alive and living in New York City in her sister Elma Burton Baxter's obituary in 1960.[19]

References
  1. "Coming of Edna de Lima Eagerly Anticipated" Lima News (November 4, 1917): 18. via Newspapers.com
  2. Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties, Ohio (A. W. Bowen 1896): 218.
  3. "Edna de Lima Wins Favor in the Middle West" Musical Leader (December 6, 1917): 588.
  4. "Edna de Lima to Sing in Chicago" Musical Leader (November 8, 1917): 469.
  5. J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1910-1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel (Scarecrow Press 2013). ISBN 9780810893009
  6. "American Singers Please in Vienna" Arizona Republic (January 18, 1914): 17. via Newspapers.com
  7. J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel (Rowman & Littlefield 2014): 238. ISBN 9780810893023
  8. "Three Liners Sail, Two Arrive" New York Times (November 4, 1925): 14. via ProQuest
  9. "Edna de Lima's Recital" New York Times (October 24, 1916): 13. via ProQuest
  10. "Edna de Lima in Recital" Music News (March 23, 1917): 18.
  11. "Edna de Lima at the Stadium" Musical Courier (July 25, 1918): 39.
  12. "Globe Music Club" Musical Courier (October 24, 1918): 8.
  13. "Edna de Lima, a Many-Sided Artist" Musical Courier (October 10, 1918): 47.
  14. "Bass Clef Concert for Red Cross" Norwich Bulletin (May 20, 1918): 10. via Newspapers.com
  15. "Social Paris Grows Dull" New York Times (August 9, 1908): 22. via Newspapers.com
  16. "Paris" Musical Courier (August 12, 1908): 13.
  17. "Oil Millionaire's Wife Clings to Stage Career" Salt Lake Tribune (January 8, 1911): 18. via Newspapers.com
  18. "J. W. Van Dyke, 89, Oil Field Pioneer" New York Times (September 14, 1939): 31. via ProQuest
  19. "Mrs. Elma Baxter" Lima News (January 20, 1960).
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