Muriel O'Malley

She starred in television films of two operettas; portraying Aurelia Popoff in The Chocolate Soldier on the NBC anthology series Musical Comedy Time in 1950 and Dame Carruthers in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard on the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1957.

[2] Following this competition win, O'Malley gave her first professional concerts as a classical contralto at Shire Hall in Longreach, and the Tivoli Theatre in Sydney in October and November 1925.

[8] Her opera repertoire included Amneris in Aida, Azucena in Il trovatore and Princess Eboli in Don Carlos, and she was mentored by Nellie Melba.

[13] She made her Broadway debut in 1944 as a Lady of the Court in the featured vocal octet in Fritz Kreisler's operetta Rhapsody.

[14] Her first leading role on Broadway was as Aurelia Popoff in the 1947 revival of the Oscar Straus operetta The Chocolate Soldier at the New Century Theatre.

[17] She later reprised the role at several regional theaters, including the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (1949)[18] and the Starlight Theatre, Kansas City, Missouri (1956).

[37] In 1957 O'Malley portrayed Dame Carruthers in a television film of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard that was broadcast on the anthology series Hallmark Hall of Fame.

The cast also included a young Barbara Cook as Elsie Maynard, Alfred Drake as Jack Point, and Celeste Holm as Phoebe Meryll.

[38] In 1962 she reprised the role of Mother Grieg in Song of Norway with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera in a cast led by Patrice Munsel as the Countess.