Romola Costantino
Romola Helen Louise Costantino OBE (also known as Romola Enyi) (14 September 1930 – November 1988) was a noted Australian pianist, accompanist and teacher, who also worked as a music, film and theatre critic.
Romola Costantino was the daughter of Napoleone Costantino (1889–1982), an Italian civil servant in Australia, and his Welsh-born wife Rosamond Lindner. She studied at the NSW Conservatorium of Music under Alexander Sverjensky. She was a graduate of the Royal College of Music in London, where her graduation performance was the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Rachmaninoff.
She gave many broadcasts and recitals for the ABC, most notably as an accompanist for musicians such as Ruggiero Ricci and Henryk Szeryng (on his 4th and last Australian tour in 1984).
Romola Costantino gave the first solo piano recital in the Sydney Opera House (10 April 1973; to an invited audience), and she participated in the first public performance in the Opera House's Music Room (with the Carl Pini Quartet and Walter Sutcliffe, under the auspices of Musica Viva Australia). She also formed a well known piano duo with Lance Dossor.