Evangeline Florence

Evangeline Florence (12 December 1867 – 1 November 1928) was an American-born soprano who built a successful concert career in Great Britain.

[2] In March 1888 she appeared as Evangeline Houghton in La sonnambula in Boston Music Hall under the direction of Charles R.

[3] In March 1889 aged 21 she was Lady Harriet Durham in Flotow's Martha at the Odd Fellows' Hall at Winter Hill in Somerville, Massachusetts.

[4] In November 1890 Houghton took part in the 12th annual festival of the South Eastern Massachusetts Musical Association, directed by Carl Zerrahn.

[5] In November 1890 ‘Miss Evangeline Houghton, Assisted by Her Three Brothers, Vocalists, and Orchestra of Six Pieces’ sang at Piedmont Church.

In the reviews the critics were appreciative of her high notes, recording: ‘the reports concerning the phenomenal compass of her voice proved to be in no way exaggerated.

In 1902 her husband Alexander Crerar provided the English words (the original lyrics were by Gustav Hölzel) to the song 'The Swiss Girl's Lament' to music by 'A.