# Edna de Lima

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**Edna de Lima** (born **Edna Burton**; 15 July 1879 – 23 April 1968),[1] later known as **Edna Burton Van Dyke**, was an American lyric soprano singer and translator.

## Early life

Edna O. Burton was from [Lima, Ohio](/source/Lima,_Ohio), the daughter of Dr. Enos G. Burton and Emma Jane Brown Burton.[2][3] She took her professional name from her hometown.[4] She studied voice in [Paris](/source/Paris) with [Marcella Sembrich](/source/Marcella_Sembrich) and [Jean de Reszke](/source/Jean_de_Reszke).[5]

## Career

### Abroad

In 1910, Edna de Lima appeared in the operas *[Louise](/source/Louise_(opera))*, *[Gli Ugonotti](/source/Gli_Ugonotti)*, *[Faust](/source/Faust_(opera))* and *[La bohème](/source/La_boh%C3%A8me)* at the Royal Opera House in [Covent Garden](/source/Covent_Garden) in London.[6] Edna de Lima debuted at the [Imperial Opera House](/source/Vienna_State_Opera) in Vienna on 24 January 1911 in a tiny role in Meyerbeers *[Le prophète](/source/Le_proph%C3%A8te)*. After this first performance she returned to Vienna in October of the same year, as a member of the ensemble. She performed in small and large roles across the repertoire of the Imperial Opera House. Six times she sang Mimì in *[La bohème](/source/La_boh%C3%A8me)*, four times Micaëla in *[Carmen](/source/Carmen)*, seven times Barbarina in *[Le nozze di Figaro](/source/Le_nozze_di_Figaro)*, once Urbain in *[Les Huguenots](/source/Les_Huguenots)* and twenty times Lola in *[Cavalleria rusticana](/source/Cavalleria_rusticana)*. The rest were mainly smaller roles like Wellgunde in *[Der Ring des Nibelungen](/source/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen)* or one of the flowermaidens in *[Parsifal](/source/Parsifal)*, her last performance in Vienna on 22 June 1914.[7][8] She sang a role in *[Faust](/source/Faust_(opera))* again in London in 1923.[9] In 1925, she traveled to [South Africa](/source/Union_of_South_Africa) for a performing tour.[10]

### In the United States

Edna de Lima first sang at New York's [Aeolian Hall](/source/Aeolian_Hall_(Manhattan)) in 1916.[11] She made her [Chicago](/source/Chicago) concert debut in 1917, when a reviewer declared that "Nature has been bounteous to Mme. de Lima in the bestowal of personal attractiveness and grace of manner in addition to the crystalline purity of her voice."[12] She was billed as "formerly of the Vienna Opera" when she appeared at the Stadium Concerts in New York in the summer of 1918.[13] She performed on a bill with pianist [Winifred Byrd](/source/Winifred_Byrd), tenor [Dan Beddoe](/source/Dan_Beddoe), and violinist Michel Gusikoff, for the Globe Music Club later in 1918.[14] She translated lyrics for recitalists, including [Margaret Matzenauer](/source/Margaret_Matzenauer). During [World War I](/source/World_War_I), she sang at concerts for the [Liberty Bond](/source/Liberty_Bond) Campaign,[15] and for the [Red Cross](/source/Red_Cross).[16]

## Personal life

Edna Burton married [John Wesley Van Dyke](/source/John_Wesley_Van_Dyke), an oil company executive,[17] in Paris in 1908,[18] on the condition that she be allowed to continue her singing career, because "the divine fire of music was in her blood and in her brain".[19] She was not mentioned in Van Dyke's obituary in 1939.[20] However, "Mrs. Edna Van Dyke" was mentioned as still alive and living in [New York City](/source/New_York_City) in her sister Elma Burton Baxter's obituary in 1960.[21]

## References

1. ["Apr 25, 1968, page 23 – The Day at Newspapers.com"](https://www.newspapers.com/image/969680870/). *Newspapers.com*. Retrieved 2024-08-12.

1. ["Coming of Edna de Lima Eagerly Anticipated"](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20731811/edna_de_lima_1917/) *Lima News* (November 4, 1917): 18. via [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)

1. [*Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties, Ohio*](https://books.google.com/books?id=r3I7AQAAMAAJ&dq=Edna+O.+Burton+born&pg=PA218) (A. W. Bowen 1896): 218.

1. ["Edna de Lima Wins Favor in the Middle West"](https://books.google.com/books?id=T0FFAQAAMAAJ&dq=Edna+de+Lima&pg=PA588) *Musical Leader* (December 6, 1917): 588.

1. ["Edna de Lima to Sing in Chicago"](https://books.google.com/books?id=T0FFAQAAMAAJ&dq=Edna+de+Lima&pg=PA469) *Musical Leader* (November 8, 1917): 469.

1. J. P. Wearing, [*The London Stage 1910-1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel*](https://books.google.com/books?id=KMFnAgAAQBAJ&dq=Edna+de+Lima&pg=PT78) (Scarecrow Press 2013). ISBN 9780810893009

1. Vienna State Opera (Archive): *[Performances of Edna de Lima](https://archiv.wiener-staatsoper.at/search/person/7531)*, retrieved on 31 March 2024

1. "American Singers Please in Vienna" *Arizona Republic* (January 18, 1914): 17. via [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)

1. J. P. Wearing, [*The London Stage 1920–1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel*](https://books.google.com/books?id=5vFEAwAAQBAJ&dq=edna+de+lima&pg=PA228) (Rowman & Littlefield 2014): 238. ISBN 9780810893023

1. "Three Liners Sail, Two Arrive" *New York Times* (November 4, 1925): 14.

1. "Edna de Lima's Recital" *New York Times* (October 24, 1916): 13.

1. ["Edna de Lima in Recital"](https://books.google.com/books?id=xnZFAQAAMAAJ&dq=Edna+de+Lima&pg=RA9-PA18) *Music News* (March 23, 1917): 18.

1. ["Edna de Lima at the Stadium"](https://books.google.com/books?id=HO86AQAAMAAJ&dq=Edna+de+Lima&pg=RA3-PA39) *Musical Courier* (July 25, 1918): 39.

1. "[Globe Music Club"](https://books.google.com/books?id=HO86AQAAMAAJ&dq=Edna+de+Lima&pg=RA16-PA8) *Musical Courier* (October 24, 1918): 8.

1. ["Edna de Lima, a Many-Sided Artist"](https://books.google.com/books?id=HO86AQAAMAAJ&dq=Edna+de+Lima&pg=RA14-PA47) *Musical Courier* (October 10, 1918): 47.

1. "[Bass Clef Concert for Red Cross"](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20731870/edna_de_lima_1918/) *Norwich Bulletin* (May 20, 1918): 10. via [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)

1. ["Social Paris Grows Dull"](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20733184/edna_burton_van_dyke_1908/) *New York Times* (August 9, 1908): 22. via [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)

1. ["Paris"](https://books.google.com/books?id=pS5MAQAAMAAJ&dq=Edna+Burton+Van+Dyke&pg=PR143) *Musical Courier* (August 12, 1908): 13.

1. ["Oil Millionaire's Wife Clings to Stage Career"](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20732689/edna_de_lima_1911/) *Salt Lake Tribune* (January 8, 1911): 18. via [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)

1. "J. W. Van Dyke, 89, Oil Field Pioneer" *New York Times* (September 14, 1939): 31.

1. ["Mrs. Elma Baxter"](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100490694/elma-baxter) *Lima News* (January 20, 1960).

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