Marjorie Florence Lawrence CBE (17 February 1907 – 13 January 1979) was an Australian soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operas.^[1][2] She was the first soprano to perform the immolation scene in Götterdämmerung by riding her horse into the flames as Wagner had intended.^[1] Afflicted by polio from 1941, her autobiography was filmed in 1955 as Interrupted Melody.^[1] Lawrence later served on the faculty of the School of Music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

From Wikipedia article - click here for the full article. Marjorie was born in Deans Marsh, and there is both a road named after her (Marjorie Lawrence Drive, also known as the Winchelsea-Deans Marsh Road) and Winchelsea's Globe Theatre was built by her father in her memory.

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