Ella R. Frank

Ella Rosetta Frank (9 June 1900 – 13 December 1988) was a British contralto and mezzo-soprano opera singer.

[2][3] She trained at the Royal Academy of Music where she won the Gilbert Betjemann Prize.

[4][5][6][7] Le Figaro in 1924 reported her contralto voice as being of rare beauty and that she interpreted Saint-Saëns and Fauré remarkably.

[5] The same newspaper in 1926 reported that, while at the Opéra de Lille, Frank won applause for her magnificent voice and her moving style.

[8] Frank married flight pioneer Lawrence Arthur Wingfield in 1928.