# Edith Wynne
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{{Short description|Welsh operatic soprano (1842–1897)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2012}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Edith Wynne
| image = Edith Wynne.jpg
| alt = A round-faced white woman with her dark hair in an elaborate braided and curled coiffure. She is wearing a gown with prominent vertical stripes on sleeves and bodice.
| caption = Sarah Edith Wynne, aka "Eos Cymru"
| other_names = Eos Cymru
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 11 March 1842
| birth_place = [Holywell, Flintshire](/source/Holywell%2C_Flintshire), Wales
| death_date = {{date of death and age|1897|01|24|1842|03|11|df=y}}
| death_place =
| occupation = Singer, voice teacher
| spouse = [Aviet Agabeg](/source/Aviet_Agabeg)
}}
'''Sarah Edith Wynne''' ('''Eos Cymru''') (11 March 1842 – 24 January 1897) was a Welsh operatic [soprano](/source/soprano) and concert singer.
== Early life ==
Wynne was born in [Holywell](/source/Holywell%2C_Flintshire), Flintshire, the third daughter of Robert Wynne and Harriet Davies Wynne. Her father was a tailor. She toured in Wales at age 12 as a singer. She studied singing with Richard Scarisbrick in Liverpool and [Pinsuti](/source/Ciro_Pinsuti) at the [Royal Academy of Music](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Music), where she was Westmoreland Scholar from 1863 to 1864. She subsequently studied with Romani and Vannuccini in [Florence](/source/Florence).[{{Cite web|title=WYNNE, SARAH EDITH ('Eos Cymru'; 1842 - 1897), vocalist|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-WYNN-EDI-1842|last=Griffith|first=Robert David|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|access-date=2020-05-24}}][{{Cite ODNB|title=Wynne, (Sarah) Edith (1842–1897), singer|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-101317|last=Griffiths|first=Rhidian|year=2011|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/101317}}]
Her brothers Robert, Richard, and Llew Wynne, and her older sister Kate Wynne Matthison, were also singers.[{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qyk_AQAAMAAJ&q=Sarah+Edith+Wynne&pg=PA1001|title=Who's who in the Theatre|date=1922|publisher=Pitman|pages=1001|language=en}}]
== Career ==
Her first appearances were in provincial concert halls and theatres. She made her London debut in June 1862 at concerts organized by Ellis Roberts, and sang soon after, on 4 July 1862 at [St. James's Hall](/source/St._James's_Hall), in [John Thomas](/source/John_Thomas_(harpist))'s Welsh concert. Wynne sang in the United States with the [Janet and John Patey](/source/Janet_Monach_Patey) and [Charles Santley](/source/Charles_Santley) in 1871-1872, and at the [Boston](/source/Boston) Handel Festival of 1874. She also appeared in opera at [The Crystal Palace](/source/The_Crystal_Palace) between 1869 and 1871 as Arline in [Wallace](/source/William_Vincent_Wallace)'s ''[Maritana](/source/Maritana)'' and as Lady Edith in [Randegger](/source/Alberto_Randegger)'s ''Rival Beauties'', but she was chiefly noted for her singing of [art song](/source/art_song) and ballads,[{{Cite web|title=Wynne, Sarah Edith, Eos Cymru, 1842-1897|url=https://www.reidconcerts.music.ed.ac.uk/performer/wynne-sarah-edith-eos-cymru-1842-1897|website=Reid Concerts|access-date=2020-05-24}}]
After her marriage in 1875 she increasingly devoted herself to teaching [oratorio](/source/oratorio) and ballad singing. She last sang in London in 1894.[{{Cite news|date=20 November 1875|title=Marriage of Miss Edith Wynne|page=8|work=Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser|url=https://papuraunewydd.llyfrgell.cymru/view/4581870/4581878|access-date=24 May 2020|via=Papurau Newydd Cymru}}] They had two daughters, Isabel Myfanwy, who became a musician in adulthood,[{{Cite journal|date=30 January 1897|title=Obituary: Madame Edith Wynne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VW1CAQAAMAAJ&q=Sarah+Edith+Wynne&pg=PA100|journal=Musical News|volume=12|pages=100}}][{{Cite book|last=Rees|first=Thomas Mardy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXM_AQAAMAAJ&q=Sarah+Edith+Wynne&pg=PA450|title=Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index|date=1908|publisher=Herald Office|pages=450|language=en}}] and was buried in [Hampstead Cemetery](/source/Hampstead_Cemetery).