Noella Cornish - "Farewell Ye Mountains" JOAN OF ARC (Tchaikovsky) 1949

Little is known of the singing career of the Australian contralto Noella Cornish. She was born in New South Wales and joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in 1942. She was posted to Melbourne and soon relocated to East Brighton in Melbourne, Victoria - allowing her to study music and voice at the Melbourne University Conservatorium. In 1946, she appeared in the popular radio series "Opera for the People" (every Tuesday at 8:00pm on 2UW) alongside singers of the calibre of Glenda Raymond, John Lanigan, William Laird, Elsie Morison and Maxwell Cohen - under the musical direction of Hector Crawford. Miss Cornish (Noella Davis) died in 2000. She appeared in the famous Mobil Quest in 1949. Here is her performance of "Adieu, forêts" from Tchaikovsky's opera JEANNE D'ARC - sung in an English translation.