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Australian Women
Biographical entry
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Carden, Joan Maralyn (1937 - )AO, OBE |
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| Opera singer | |
| Born: 1937 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | |
Joan Carden was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) on 13 June 1988 and an Officer (Civil) of the Order of the British Empire on 31 December 1981 for services to opera. |
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The daughter of Frank and Margaret Ethel Gabriel (née Cooke) Carden, Joan Carden was educated at Prahran Technical School. She later attended Trinity College of Music (London) and the London Opera Centre. After graduating from the London Opera Centre she performed in the United Kingdom and Germany before joining the Australian Opera (now Opera Australia) in 1971. During her career Joan Carden sang Gilda (Rigoletto) with the Australian Opera, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the Glyndeborne Festival and the Metropolitan Opera and Constanza (The Abduction from the Serablio) with the Scottish Opera. In 1987 Joan Carden received the Dame Joan Hammond Award. She was the recipient of an Australian Artists Creative Fellowship in 1993 and is Patron of the National Voice Centre at the University of Sydney and the Victorian College of Arts Opera. Events
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| Sources used to compile this entry: Who's Whi in Australia, 2002, p. 371-372 and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Published by National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site Comments, questions, corrections and additions: awap@womenaustralia.info Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 4 September 2008 http://womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0218b.htm |