
Margherita Grandi, a mezzo-soprano, was born as Margaret Gard, on Harwood Island, NSW in 1894.
She travelled to Europe in 1911 where she received training in London, Paris and Milan.
Grandi went on to have an impressive career as a dramatic soprano in Europe, also performing in South America and Egypt, but never returned to Australia.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.