Raisbeck, Rosina (1916-2006)

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Opera singer
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Rosina Raisbeck enjoyed a successful career in London and performed on the club circuit across Australia in the 1960s, before joining the Australian Opera in 1971. She was still singing with the company at the age of 72.

Raisbeck was born in Ballarat to English and Italian parents, and grew up in Maitland. After success on the club circuit in New South Wales, she entered the New South Wales Conservatorium in 1942. Raisbeck won the Sun Aria and ABC Concerto and Vocal competitions in 1946. She auditioned at Covent Garden, London, and performed her debut role as Maddalena in Rigoletto the following year.

Raisbeck was a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as part of the Queen's coronation celebrations in 1953. She sang with Sadler's Wells Opera in London, and with the Elizabethan Trust Opera Company at home in Sydney. In 1961, after her divorce from James Laurie, she returned to Sydney with her son, Jim. She joined the Australian Opera company ten years later. Raisbeck's last public appearance was at the 80th birthday concert of Dame Joan Sutherland, her friend and colleague, in October 2006.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. State Library of New South Wales: Royce Rees collection of Sydney theatre photonegatives (1946 - 1967)
    Photographs - 6,659 photonegatives, 650 silver gelatin photoprints
    ON 192 ; PXA 739
  2. National Library of Australia: Raisbeck, Rosina (singer)
    Folders of programs and miscellaneous pieces
    Ephemera (PROMPT), Record ID: 3530570

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