Frances Ingram

Elizabeth Frances Ingram (5 November 1888 – 12 April 1974) was an American operatic contralto of English birth who had an active career in North America during the 1910s and 1920s.

She remained with that company for two seasons, performing in both Chicago and Philadelphia in roles like Antonia in Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, Gertrude in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Grimgerde in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre, Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto, and a Page in Wagner's Lohengrin.

From 1915 until 1919 she sang with the Chicago Opera Association where she was heard as Amneris in Aida, Azucena in Il trovatore, Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde, La Cieca in La Gioconda, Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, and the title role in Carmen.

[1] Ingram sang with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1919 until 1921; making her debut as Suzuki to the Cio-Cio-San of Geraldine Farrar on 19 November 1919.

Her other roles at the Met included a Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Mardion in Henry Kimball Hadley's Cleopatra's Night, Mercédès in Georges Bizet's Carmen, Olga in Eugene Onegin, the Solo Madrigalist in Giacomo Puccini's Manon Lescaut, the Young Ragpicker in Louise, and Night in the world premiere of Albert Wolff's L'oiseau bleu.