Conchita Supervía (December 8-9, 1895–March 30, 1936) was a successful Spanish mezzo-soprano singer. Supervía was born in Barcelona to an old Andalusian family and given the baptismal name of María de la Concepción Supervía Pascual. She was educated at the local convent but at the age of twelve entered the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona to study singing.

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  • Conchita Supervía (December 8-9, 1895–March 30, 1936) was a successful Spanish mezzo-soprano singer. Supervía was born in Barcelona to an old Andalusian family and given the baptismal name of María de la Concepción Supervía Pascual. She was educated at the local convent but at the age of twelve entered the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona to study singing. She made her stage debut in 1910 at the young age of 15 at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina in Stiattesi's Bianca de Beulieu. Then she sang in Tomás Bretón's Los amantes de Teruel and as Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana. In 1911 she sang the role of Octavian in the first Italian language production of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the Teatro Constanzi in Rome. In 1912 she appeared as Carmen at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in her native city, a role with which she would be associated for the rest of her career. She made her American debut in 1915 as Charlotte in Jules Massenet's Werther at the Chicago Opera, where she also sang in Mignon and Carmen. Back in Europe by the end of the First World War she was invited to Rome, where she started the Rossini revival that made her world-famous – as Angelina in La Cenerentola, Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, in the original keys. A powerful chest register linked to a flexible upper voice that could cope easily with florid passages, allied to a musicianship of great individuality and refinement – she could refine a note to a mere thread of sound - and with impeccable enunciation. Her voice is not without its critics; a pronounced tremolo that in the lower part of the voice became almost a machine-gun rattle, ‘as strong as the rattle of dice in a box’, is a comment attributed to the British critic, Philip Hope-Wallace. Many who heard her in the flesh have said that this vibrato was more evident on records than on the stage; an example of the microphone exaggerating a singer's faults. In 1920s Supervía sang at La Scala as Hänsel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel but, strangely, she never sang the Rossini roles or Carmen at La Scala though she sang there in every season until 1929. All in all, she made more than two hundred recordings mostly for the Fonotipia and Odeon labels, featuring not only her famous roles in opera but also a vast song repertory in Spanish, French, Italian and English, as well as zarzuela and operetta (She had been in a legendary production of Franz Lehár's Frasquita at the Opéra Comique. ) In 1930 she made her London debut at the Queen's Hall. The following year she married a Jewish businessman from London, Ben Rubenstein, and settled there. (She already had a teenage son, George, from a previous association. ) Her Covent Garden debut was in 1934 in La cenerentola and in 1935 she repeated that part, plus L'italiana in Algeri. In 1934, Supervía appeared in the Victor Saville British film Evensong as a singer named Baba L'Etoile, opposite actor Fritz Kortner. Pregnancy forced her to cancel her planned appearances in the autumn of 1935. On March 29, 1936 she entered a London clinic to await the birth of her baby, which was stillborn on March 30; a few hours later she herself died. She was buried with her baby daughter, in a grave designed by Edwin Lutyens, in the Liberal Jewish Cemetery at Willesden in NW London. The grave, which had fallen into disrepair, was refurbished by a group of admirers and re-consecrated in October 2006.
  • Conxita Supervia i Pascual fou una mezzosoprano lírica catalana. Va néixer a Barcelona i de petita estudià cant al Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu. Als 14 anys, l'1 d'octubre de 1910, debutà en el teatre Colón de Buenos Aires interpretant un paper secundari una obra de Beulieu de Stiattesi. Des de llavors, un dels seus professors de cant, Goula, que tenia la seva pròpia companyia, la contractà per a realitzar petits papers secundaris, entre ells el de Zulima a Los amantes de Teruel de Tomás Bretón. El 1912 representà Carmen al Liceu de Barcelona. Entre 1916 i 1935, Conxita Supervia es converteix en una estrella i interpreta papers protagonistes en òperes de prestigi (especialment La Cenerentola i Il barbiere di Siviglia de Gioacchino Rossini) en els grans teatres de tot el món: l'Òpera de Chicago, la Scala de Milà, el Teatre dels Camps Elisis de París, l'Òpera de París, el Covent Garden de Londres, etc. La seva veu adquirí una notable fama, per la delicada coloratura, el registre potent i uns alts flexibles que li permetien cantar amb facilitat els passatges més ornamentats. El 1930 es casà amb un empresari londinenc i s'instal·là a Londres. En aquesta època començà a realitzar les gravacions que més fama li donaren. El 1935 va decidir retirar-se per uns mesos per recomanacions mèdiques (estava afrontant un embaràs amb complicacions). No obstant això, mai tornaria als escenaris. Va morir el 30 de març de 1936, com conseqüència d'una sèrie de complicacions durant el part. Actualment es conserven unes 200 gravacions de Conxita Supervia, no només d'òperes sino també de sarsueles i cançons tradicionals catalanes.
  • Concepción Supervía Pascual fue una mezzosoprano lírica española de notables medios y trascendencia histórica pese a su trágica desaparición temprana.
  • Conchita Supervia oli espanjalainen mezzosopraano, joka oli tunnettu vangitsevasta persoonallisuudestaan niin lavalla kuin sen ulkopuolella ja persoonallisesta äänestään. Hän lauloi paljon Gioacchino Rossinin oopperoita, ja teki näin säveltäjän työtä tunnetuksi. Supervia teki debyyttinsä Buenos Airesin Teatro Colónissa vain 15-vuotiaana 1910. Conchita Supervia kuoli traagisesti synnyttäessään toista lastaan maaliskuussa 1936.
  • コンチータ･スペルビア（Conchita Supervía, 1895年12月9日 - 1936年3月30日）は、スペインのメゾソプラノ歌手。ロッシーニのヒロイン諸役、ビゼー『カルメン』での名唱で有名だった。
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  • Conchita Supervía (December 8-9, 1895–March 30, 1936) was a successful Spanish mezzo-soprano singer. Supervía was born in Barcelona to an old Andalusian family and given the baptismal name of María de la Concepción Supervía Pascual. She was educated at the local convent but at the age of twelve entered the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona to study singing.
  • Conxita Supervia i Pascual fou una mezzosoprano lírica catalana. Va néixer a Barcelona i de petita estudià cant al Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu. Als 14 anys, l'1 d'octubre de 1910, debutà en el teatre Colón de Buenos Aires interpretant un paper secundari una obra de Beulieu de Stiattesi.
  • Concepción Supervía Pascual fue una mezzosoprano lírica española de notables medios y trascendencia histórica pese a su trágica desaparición temprana.
  • Conchita Supervia oli espanjalainen mezzosopraano, joka oli tunnettu vangitsevasta persoonallisuudestaan niin lavalla kuin sen ulkopuolella ja persoonallisesta äänestään. Hän lauloi paljon Gioacchino Rossinin oopperoita, ja teki näin säveltäjän työtä tunnetuksi. Supervia teki debyyttinsä Buenos Airesin Teatro Colónissa vain 15-vuotiaana 1910. Conchita Supervia kuoli traagisesti synnyttäessään toista lastaan maaliskuussa 1936.
  • コンチータ･スペルビア（Conchita Supervía, 1895年12月9日 - 1936年3月30日）は、スペインのメゾソプラノ歌手。ロッシーニのヒロイン諸役、ビゼー『カルメン』での名唱で有名だった。
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  • Conchita Supervía
  • Conxita Supervia i Pascual
  • Conchita Supervía
  • Conchita Supervia
  • コンチータ・スペルビア
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