Kate Condon
| Kate Condon | |
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Circa 1905
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| Born |
February 4, 1877 Bloomington, Illinois, U.S.A. |
| Died | May 27, 1941 (aged 64) Chicago, Illinois U.S.A. |
| Occupation | singer and actress |
Kate Condon (February 4, 1877 – May 27, 1941) was an American contralto who performed in light and grand operas on Broadway and in opera houses over the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Condon was born in 1877 in Bloomington, Illinois, the second youngest of six children raised by William and Bridget Condon. Some records give her birth date as February 4, 1880, but this is unlikely since her brother Thomas was born in October, 1879. Condon’s parents both came to America from Ireland in the years leading up to the American Civil War and married in 1859, settling in Bloomington, where in 1860 their first child was born. Her father became a well known Illinois merchant.
Condon's first appearance in a major production on the New York stage came in November 1900, playing Siebel in the English Grand Opera Company’s production of Gounod's Faust with the Metropolitan Opera. She had previously been a member of the Castle Square Company in Boston and would later perform on Broadway and elsewhere with such stars as Jefferson De Angelis, De Wolf Hopper, Fritzi Scheff and Tyrone Power, Sr. Her first role on Broadway was Molly O'Grady in The Emerald Isle in 1902. Among other Broadway appearances, in 1913 she appeared in revivals of two Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Condon crossed the Atlantic during the First World War to entertain troops serving with the American Expeditionary Force in France. In 1917–18, near the end of her career, her last Broadway role was in a successful revival of the musical Chu Chin Chow.
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