Robyn Archer is a versatile Australian singer, writer, and stage and artistic director.

Amy Castles recorded this song from Verdi’s opera Rigoletto in September 1906 in London. It is one of her earliest commercial recordings.

Deborah Conway, along with her partner and collaborator Willy Zygier, performed a special concert at the NFSA.

Singing a song that Nellie Melba made famous, Violet Mount, who used the stage name L’Incognita, is paired with the New Zealand born flautist, John Amadio.

This collection contains portraits and recordings of 15 pioneering Australian opera singers, music-hall performers, jazz vocalists and instrumentalists.

Frances Alda became a leading soprano at the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York in the early 20th century.

In this recording, Florence Austral sings the hymn commonly known as 'There is a green hill far away'.

Although Una Bourne did compose and record her own pieces, this piano solo was composed by another female composer, Cecile Chaminade. It is from Six Etudes de Concert. Op.

This sentimental song in which a girl reminisces with her father about her mother, who has passed away, was recorded on the Pathe record label whilst Ella Caspers was in Europe.

This song was originally composed by Dorothy Stewart for the Australia Day dinner held by the Australian Society of New York in 1940.