Grace Angelau

[1][2][3] She was educated at Desborough Academy in her youth before beginning her vocal studies with Louis Aschenfelder at the Pittsburgh Musical Institute where she gave a recital in 1917 as a soprano.

[1][4] She pursued further studies with baritone Dr. Fery Lulek at the Chicago Musical College which she attended on a vocal scholarship; she gave a recital there in 1922 as a contralto.

[14] She returned to Broadway later that year as Azucena at the Forrest Theatre with Marguerite Ringo as Leonora and Pasquale Ferrara as Manrico, and Rocco Pandiscio as Count di Luna.

[15][16] In July 1933 she performed the role of Siébel in Charles Gounod's Faust to a crowd of 1,800 people at Atlantic City's Steel Pier.

[25][26] With that company she performed with singers Josephine Lucchese, Anna Leskaya Asch, Sydney Rayner, Aroldo Lindi, Mostyn Thomas, Natale Cervi, and Mario Valle among others.

[31][32] In 1937 she appeared as Suzuki in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly with the San Carlo Opera Company at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles.

[33] That same year she spent a month performing at the Teatro Municipal of Caracas in a tour organized by opera impresario Giorgio D'Andria at the invitation of President Eleazar López Contreras.

[39] In 1938 Angelau married Guy Hutchison who was a former football coach at Amherst College and Yale University, and was Vice President of the Hoffman Specialty Company in New York City at the time of their wedding.

[40] In the late 1930s she taught singing at The Alviene School of Dance Arts; an institution which trained Fred Astaire, Una Merkel, and Peggy Shannon.

[40][1][42] She retired from the stage in 1941 after purchasing the Coonara Springs Restaurant & Gardens at 129 Olinda-Monbulk Rd in Olinda, Victoria, Australia in the Dandenong Ranges which she operated as a tea room in the 1940s.