Margreta Elkins

Margreta Elkins AM (born Margaret Ann Enid Geater; 16 October 1930 – 1 April 2009) was an Australian mezzo-soprano.

[2] In 1950, she toured Queensland and appeared in Faust as Siébel; Il trovatore as Azucena; and Madama Butterfly as Suzuki.

She sang regularly at that house for the next ten years in such operas as Lucia di Lammermoor as Alisa; Der Rosenkavalier as Octavian; Die Walküre as Sieglinde; and Malcolm Williamson's The Growing Castle as The Poet, among others.

Elkins also sang the role of Alisa opposite Maria Callas's Lucia for her 1959 recording of the opera with conductor Tullio Serafin.

[1] In November 1964, Elkins appeared alongside Noël Coward, Dame Margot Fonteyn and others in a 90th birthday tribute to Sir Winston Churchill.

[6] She was a Sessional Lecturer in Voice at the Queensland Conservatorium and taught at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

[2] In 2002 she returned to the stage once more, as Mamma Lucia in Cavalleria rusticana for Opera Queensland where she was an honorary life member.

[2] Vincenzo Bellini Giovanni Bononcini Gaetano Donizetti Charles Gounod George Frideric Handel Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Giuseppe Verdi Richard Wagner Elkins also features on many compilation CDs drawing from the above recordings.