Later Career
Herman Klein, describing the London musical scene circa 1900, noted the absence of leading English-born women singers, apart from the three notable exceptions of Clara Butt, Marie Brema and Kirkby Lunn.
Brema appeared opposite David Bispham again in the premiere of Stanford's opera Much Ado About Nothing, as Beatrice to his Benedick, in a cast also including John Coates, Suzanne Adams and Pol Plançon. This was for the Covent Garden 1901 season. In 1902 she sang Brünnhilde (in German) in Paris for Hans Richter. In January 1908 she organized three concerts given in Brussels, in which Gervase Elwes joined her in the solo quartets of the Brahms Liebeslieder.
In 1910-11 she organised an opera season of her own at the Savoy Theatre, singing Orfeo in English: this season was conducted by Frank Bridge. According to Henry Wood, her training of the chorus to project the diction into the auditorium was wonderful and inscrutable. In 1912 she toured the provinces with the Denhof Opera Company. After this she retired from the stage.
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