{{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, 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 }}
'''Sarah Edith Wynne''' ('''Eos Cymru''') (11 March 1842 – 24 January 1897) was a Welsh operatic soprano and concert singer.
== Early life == Wynne was born in Holywell, 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 at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was Westmoreland Scholar from 1863 to 1864. She subsequently studied with Romani and Vannuccini in Florence.<ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{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}}</ref>
Her brothers Robert, Richard, and Llew Wynne, and her older sister Kate Wynne Matthison, were also singers.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Actress Edith Wynne Matthison was her niece and namesake.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
== 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, in John Thomas's Welsh concert. Wynne sang in the United States with the Janet and John Patey and Charles Santley in 1871-1872, and at the Boston Handel Festival of 1874. She also appeared in opera at The Crystal Palace between 1869 and 1871 as Arline in Wallace's ''Maritana'' and as Lady Edith in Randegger's ''Rival Beauties'', but she was chiefly noted for her singing of art song and ballads,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> and her appearances at the Reid Concerts in Edinburgh.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
After her marriage in 1875 she increasingly devoted herself to teaching oratorio and ballad singing. She last sang in London in 1894.<ref name=":1" />
== Personal life == She married a Cambridge-educated Armenian barrister, Aviet Agabeg, in 1875.<ref>{{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}}</ref> They had two daughters, Isabel Myfanwy, who became a musician in adulthood,<ref name=":1" /> and Gwladys Edith Victoria, who died soon after birth in 1878. Sarah Edith Wynne Agabeg died at her home in London on 24 January 1897, aged 54 years,<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> and was buried in Hampstead Cemetery.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
*[https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp97674/sarah-edith-wynne Portraits of Sarah Edith Wynne] in the National Portrait Gallery (London). *{{Find a Grave|id=20831530|name=Sarah Edith Wynne Agabeg}} *Eryl Wyn Rowlands, [http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/small/item/GTJ12770/ "Sarah Edith Wynne"] at the ''Gathering the Jewels'' website *George Grove (ed.), "Wynne, Sarah Edith", ''A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889)'', Macmillan & Co, 1900, Vol. 4, p. 818.
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