Anna Russell

Anna Russell was an English–Canadian singer and comedian. She gave many concerts in which she sang and played comic musical sketches on the piano. Among her best-known works are her concert performances and famous recordings of The Ring of the Nibelungs – a humorous 22-minute synopsis of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen – and her parody How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera.

27 December 1911

Born on the same birth day (27 December): Anthony Boric • Brad Murphey • Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author) • Erin E. Stead • François Hemsterhuis • Gaspar Noé • Jan Jesenius • Jean de Lamberville • Kevin Ollie • Miles Aiken • Pavel Tretyakov • Ron Rothstein • Roy White • Wilfrid Sheed

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