Name Ruby Mercer Role Writer | Died January 1999 | |
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Books The Tenor of His Time: Edward Johnson of the Met, The Quilicos: Louis, Gino & Lina : an Operatic Family | ||
Ruby Mercer, CM (b. Athens OH, 26 July 1906, d. Toronto ON, 26 January 1999) was a writer, broadcaster, soprano and entrepreneur.
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Mercer founded Opera Canada, a periodical for which she served as editor from 1960 to 1990. She also founded the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus, and served as its first president. She was host of CBC Radio's weekly show Opera Time from 1962 to 1979, as well as its successor Opera In Stereo from 1979 to 1984.
She became a member of the Order of Canada in 1995.
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