Amy Eliza Castles
Amy Eliza Castles, was an Australian soprano.Biography
Castles was born on 25 July 1880, in Melbourne, Australia, to Joseph Castles and Mary Ellen Fallon. She was educated at St Kilian's primary school and St Mary's College.
On 26 March 1910 she sang the title role in the Australian premiere of Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly, at the Theatre Royal in Sydney.
She made her United States début at Carnegie Hall in 1917.
Castles never married. She lived with her sister, Dolly Castles, in Camberwell. She died at a hospital in Fitzroy, Victoria, on 19 November 1951. She was buried in Box Hill Cemetery.
