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Margreta Elkins AM (16 October 19301 April 2009) was an Australian mezzo-soprano of great renown. She sang at The Royal Opera and with Opera Australia and other companies, but turned down offers to sing at the Metropolitan Opera, Bayreuth and Glyndebourne. She made a number of recordings, including singing alongside sopranos such as Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland. ==Early life and career: 1930–1955== Margaret Ann Enid Geater was born in Brisbane, Queensland. She began her vocal studies at a convent school before winning an Australian state scholarship in 1949. That same year, she married Henry Elkins〔Mark McGinnes (Statuesque yet steely soprano ) ''The Age'', 9 April 2009〕 and adopted Margreta Elkins as her stage name. Also that year she competed in the Mobil Quest against Joan Sutherland.〔 In 1950, she toured Queensland and appeared in ''Faust'' as Siébel; ''Il trovatore'' as Azucena; and ''Madama Butterfly'' as Suzuki. In 1952 she joined and toured with the National Opera Company of Australia,〔(. .the company toured in that year as New South Wales National Opera. Read bio. of Clarice Lorenz, founder and managing director of the then company. )〕 making her first appearances in Brisbane as Carmen in 1953 and as Azucena, in 1954. She entered the Mobil Quest again in 1956, winning second prize.
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