ABOUT EMMA HOWSON
Opera singer and actress who created the soprano role of Josephine in the opera H.M.S. Pinafore.
She performed in concerts with her father, who was a conductor and baritone singer, when she was a child.
She taught music in Brooklyn after retiring from acting in the 1890s.
Her nephew was actor Albert Howson.
She was a soprano singer like fellow Australian Joan Sutherland .
