Shacklock, Constance

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Shacklock, Constance
Date of birth
1913-04-16
Date of death
1999-06-29
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 79881384
Wikidata: Q5163578
Library of congress: n 85377537
Sources of Information
  • New Grove dict. of opera(Shacklock, Constance; b. Apr. 16, 1913, Sherwood, Nottingham; English mezzo-soprano)
  • New York Times, July 4, 1999(Constance Shacklock, 86, mezzo-soprano; d. June 29, 1999; b. in Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham)
  • Sing solo contralto, c1985:t.p. (edited by Constance Shacklock)

Wikipedia description:

Constance Shacklock OBE (16 April 1913 – 29 June 1999) was an English contralto. After more than a decade of roles with the Covent Garden Opera Company, with other companies and on the concert stage, Shacklock performed for six years in The Sound of Music in London as the Mother Abbess. She taught singing at the Royal Academy of Music from 1968 to 1978.

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