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Lilian Stiles-Allen was a British soprano of the mid 20th century. She was born Lilian Elizabeth Allen in Devonshire Street, Marylebone in 1890, and later added her mother's maiden name. Her musical education was at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she won the Sheriff's Prize for contraltos [sic] in 1909, and in Vienna undertaking an extensive study of Lieder. Her career was primarily on the concert stage, her physique being unsuited to operatic performance, but an early theatrical...
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