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RA McARDEN-you may have heard her song recital in the BBC’s Pacific Service-sings in eighteen languages. And not only sings, she speaks a number of them, too-English, French, Dutch, Flemish, Danish, Norwegian, Afrikaans, and German, states the BBC’s London Letter. Her songs range also over the MRussian, Finnish, Czech, Arabic, Hebrew and Yiddish, and Persian tongues. Miss McArden studied voice production with Tamenti (friend of Battistini), operatic roles with Blachi Marchesi, and singing with Nina Grieg (Grieg’s widow). She made her operatic debut in Mignon, singing in Danish, at the Royal Opera, Copenhagen. She appeared by Royal Command of H.M. Queen Wilhelmina, apart from other performances in Holland. She has sung also in Paris and in other European capitals,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 149, 1 May 1942, Page 11
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