Marjorie Lawrence and Southern Illinois University students scenes from Aida, Der Elbony and Waltzing Matilida (78 rpm) (2 copies) [contains an article on Marjorie Lawrence Dover, Arkansas Foundation of Fine Art, 1961. Camden, New Jersey: RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc. Contains an advertisement by and for Marjorie Lawrence. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1950. Interrupted melody: The story of my life. 1 Memento for Marjorie Lawrence from her Colleagues on the Occasion of Her Return to the Metropolitan Opera Company on December 27, 1942. In 1955, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a film based on her book, Interrupted Melody, starring Eleanor Parker as Lawrence Parker mimed the voice of Eileen Farrell. In 1949, Lawrence wrote her autobiography Interrupted Melody. She made a number of excellent recordings, mainly of works by Wagner. She retired to her ranch, Harmony Hills, in Hot Springs Arkansas where she taught international students until her death in 1979.Īlthough best known for her Wagnerian interpretations, Lawrence played in a range of other works, including Salome and Georges Bizet's Carmen. A performance as Amneris in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida in Paris in 1946 was well received, but Lawrence retreated from the stage, and instead began to work as a teacher. During World War II, she performed in charity concerts in Australia, seated in a chair.
In 1941, in Mexico, Lawrence discovered that she had polio, and was left in a wheelchair as a result. Thomas King, an osteopath and Christian Scientist. On 29 March 1941, at New York City's City Hall, she married Dr. Lawrence's physicality and beauty made her popular with audiences and she danced the Dance of the Seven Veils in Richard Strauss's Salome more convincingly than most other sopranos. On 25 February 1933, she made her first appearance at the Opera Garnier in Paris, playing Ortrud in Lohengrin. In 1932 she made her operatic debut in Monte Carlo as Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser. She won a number of vocal competitions when aged in her teens. Lawrence was born at Deans Marsh, south of Winchelsea, Victoria. She later served on the faculty of the School of Music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Marjorie Lawrence (FebruJanuary 13, 1979) was an Australian soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operas.
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