Elsie Morison

Elsie Jean Morison AM (15 August 1924 – 5 April 2016) was an Australian operatic soprano.

Early life Morison was born in Ballarat, Victoria, to Alexander and Elsie Morison. As a child and teenager, she was interested in piano; however, her mother, who was a singing teacher, encouraged her in her vocal studies. In 1963, she married the Czech conductor Rafael Kubelík (his first wife, the violinist Ludmila Bertova, had died in 1961), and decided to retire from performing. She sang occasionally post-retirement, such as at a 1968 concert in Melbourne conducted by her husband, with her mother in the audience.