Margaret Ismay
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Margaret Ismay | |
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| Education | Royal Academy of Music |
| Occupation | Opera singer |
| Years active | fl. 1910– |
| Awards | Gilbert Betjemann Prize |
Margaret Ismay was a British opera singer.[1] While a student at the Royal Academy of Music, she was awarded the Academy's Gilbert Betjemann Prize "for operatic singing" in 1909.[1][2] She later had the medal converted into a coin watch by Cartier.[1]
Ismay appeared in The Balkan Princess in 1910.
In 2013 her great-nephew showed the medal on an episode of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow.[1]
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