found: Her Margherita Grandi, Antonio Salvarezza [SR] 198-:label (Margherita Grandi) container (née Marguerite Filo Gard; b. 10-4-1894, Hobart, Tasmania; mezzo-soprano, dramatic soprano)
found: New Grove(Grandi, Margherita (Garde, Margaret); début at the Opéra-Comique under the name Djema Vecla)
found: OCLC data base, 3-26-91(hdg.: Grandi, Margharita)
found: Hixon, D.L. Women in music, 2nd ed.(Grandi, Margherita (Margaret Garde) (pseud. Djema Vecla); b. Oct. 4, 1894, Tasmania, Australia; Australian soprano, actress; sources give year of birth variously as 1894, 1895, 1899, and 1907; birthday also given as Oct. 10)
found: Baker's biog. dict. of 20th-cent. classical musicians(Grandi, Margherita (née Margaret Garde); b. Oct. 4, 1894, Hobart; d. 1972, Milan; Australian soprano; made operatic debut under stage name Djema Vécla (anagram of Calvé); m. Giovanni Grandi)
found: Australian dict. of biog., onlline ed., Jan. 12, 2007(Grandi, Margherita (Maggie); b. Margaret Gard, Oct. 10, 1892, Harwood Island, New South Wales; Maggie Gard; made début as mezzo-soprano under the stage name Djemma Vécla; after hiatus of 10 years resumed career as Margherita Grandi, singing dramatic soprano roles; d. Jan. 29, 1972, Milan)
found: Dict. of Australian mus., c1998(Grandi, Marghareta (Margaret Garde); b. Oct. 4, 1894, Hobart; d. 1972; soprano)
found: Verdi, G. Margherita Grandi sings Verdi [SR] p2006:label (Margherita Grandi; soprano) insert (although standard reference works on opera give differing years for her date of birth, variant spellings of her name, and place her birth in Tasmania, official records show that she was born Margaret Gard, Oct. 10, 1892, Harwood Island, New South Wales, Australia; Maggie Gard; became known as Margherita Grandi after her marriage in the mid-1920s to Giovanni Grandi; d. 1972, Milan)
