Sofia Charlebois

Her grandfather was Israel Kashow, who ran a fishery on Belvedere Island;[1][2] he raised Sophie after both her parents died in 1892.

She attended San Francisco State University, and the Frank Damrosch Conservatory in New York City.

[3][4] Roles she sang included Micaela in Carmen,[5] Marguerite in Faust,[6] Nedda in Pagliacci,[7] Musetta in La bohème,[8] and Giulietta in The Tales of Hoffmann.

[9] "Sophie Charlebois in the difficult but thoroughly pleasing part of Musetta made a distinct success," wrote one reviewer in 1919, adding "She is a daintly little piece of Dresden china, very attractive, and her acting very vivacious.

"[13] She died as a passenger aboard the ocean liner Saturnia in 1948, aged 61 years.