Sue Harvard
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{{Infobox musical artist
| image = Harvard LCCN2014711368.jpg
| birth_date = October 25, 1888
| birth_place = Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
| death_date = May 15, 1967 (aged 78)
| death_place = New York City, New York, United States
| genre = operatic soprano
}}
Sue Harvard (October 25, 1888 – May 15, 1967) was a Welsh operatic soprano who performed in the United States.
Biography
Harvard was born on October 25, 1888 in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. She had five sisters and two brothers.{{Cite news |date=May 16, 1967 |title=Sue Harvard, opera singer dies in N.Y. |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sue_Harvard_(1888-1967)_death_in_the_New_Castle_News_on_May_16,_1967.jpg |access-date=March 25, 2025 |work=New Castle News}}
Harvard emigrated to the United States and studied in New York City and Pittsburgh.{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Who_is_who_in_Music/rSq-hIpPVP8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Sue+Harvard+soprano&dq=Sue+Harvard+soprano&printsec=frontcover |title=Who is who in Music |date=1929 |publisher=Berghan Publishing Company |pages=141 |language=en}} She had an operatic career spanning the 1910s and 1920s,"[https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/320325 Harvard, Sue]" Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved March 25, 2025. employed by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Musical_Forecast/QU5oyssF4lIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Sue+Harvard+soprano&dq=Sue+Harvard+soprano&printsec=frontcover |title=Musical Forecast |date=1936 |publisher=Musicians' Club of Pittsburgh |pages=32-34 |language=en}} and the Mikado Club in New Castle. In 1922, she was described by the New York Times as having a "voice of brilliant quality."{{Cite news |date=1922-11-03 |title=SUE HARVARD SINGS.; Young Soprano Displays a Voice of Brilliant Quality. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1922/11/03/archives/sue-harvard-sings-young-soprano-displays-a-voice-of-brilliant.html |access-date=2025-03-25 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} She later performed in churches in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Steubenville, Ohio.
She died on May 15, 1967 in New York City, New York, United States. She was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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