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- Dame Eva Turner DBE (10 March, 1892–16 June,1990) was a dramatic soprano whose well-trained voice was renowned for its clarion power. Born in Werneth, Oldham, England, her first formal singing lessons were with Dan Rootham, the teacher of Clara Butt. From 1911 to 1914 she studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She began her career as a chorister with the Carl Rosa Opera Company and steadily took on larger roles such as Kate Pinkerton and the title role of Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly, Micaela in Carmen, Musetta in Puccini's La bohème, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Freia, Elsa in Lohengrin, Brünnhilde, Leonora in La Forza del destino, Leonora in Fidelio, Eva in Die Meistersinger, and the title roles in Aida, Tosca and Thaïs. In 1924 after an audition for the La Scala Company, she was engaged by Arturo Toscanini as Freia and Sieglinde for the La Scala Ring Cycle of 1924-25. The role for which she was, and remains, most famous, was the title role in Turandot. She was present in the audience at the 1926 premier, but did not, as is sometimes claimed, sing in it. When it was clear the new work was a success she was told off to study the title role. She first sang it in December 1926 at the Teatro Grande in Brescia seven months after its première. In 1928 she performed it at Covent Garden (also playing Aida and Santuzza during the season), and in 1929 she took the part at La Scala. Recordings of her Turandot recorded live at in 1937 with Giovanni Martinelli as Calaf and John Barbirolli conducting remained unissued at the time but when finally released in the 1980s inspired reviewers to superlatives. When Vaughan Williams composed his Serenade to Music for sixteen leading singers of the day he included lines for Eva Turner but separated them from those for the other three sopranos, so that her mighty voice rose instead from among the mezzos. The recording, conducted by Sir Henry Wood, made immediately after the première captures Turner's voice in the soaring lines Vaughan Williams wrote for her. In later recordings artists such as Marie Hayward, Elizabeth Connell and Yvonne Kenny have essayed the Turner part, and as the original is available on Compact Disc it is possible to judge how the younger singers match up. The solidity, power, and amplitude of the middle register, the surety and smoothness of the top register, and her imposing low register have been judged favourably against such contemporaries and successors as Florence Austral, Rosa Raisa, Birgit Nilsson and Anny Konetzni. In 1948 she retired from the stage and in 1949 was offered the position of Visiting Professor of Voice at the University of Oklahoma, and a one year contract was extended for nine years. She returned to London in 1959 where she was appointed Professor of Singing at the Royal Academy of Music, a position she held until well into her eighties, her style of teaching being too forthright for some (Rita Hunter found it too demanding) but producing such successful students as Amy Shuard, Roberta Knie and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Both Amy Shuard and later Dame Gwyneth Jones who had great success in the role of Turandot studied this with her. In retirement she was closely involved with the International Association of Wagner Societies in the UK and elsewhere. Unlike some singers she enjoyed attending performances and she was regularly in the audience at Covent Garden up to the time of her death. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1962.
- Eva Turner DBE va ser una soprano anglesa. Realitzà els estudis musicals a Bristol amb Albert Richards. Debutà el 1916 com un dels patges de Tannhäuser en la companyia de Carl Rosa, en la que hi va romandre fins el 1924. Fent el paper de Madama Butterfly, amb aquesta companyia, fou escoltada per E. Panizza, el qual la feu cantar a Milà en el rol de Freia de L'or del Rin. Cantà en una companyia italiana itinerant per Alemanya diversos rols de soprano dramàtica, com ara Aïda. El 1925, debutà a Brescia com a Turandot. Fou el seu paper per excel·lència i amb ell assolí els seus majors èxits durant els anys que li restaven de carrera. Franco Alfano, entre d'altres, que acabà la partitura d'aquesta òpera de Puccini, la considerava la Turandot ideal. Realitzà una dilatada carrera al Covent Garden de Londres entre 1928 i 1948, però també va cantar arreu d'Europa i a diversos teatres d'Amèrica, sobretot a Chicago. Al 1962 va ser nomenada Dama Comandant de l'Imperi Britànic.
- Eva Turner fue una soprano dramática inglesa nacida en Werneth, Oldham, Inglaterra reconocida como una de las voces más poderosas del siglo, excelsa en roles de Wagner, Verdi y especialmente como Turandot de Puccini, considerada por muchos como la exponente definitiva del papel. Estudió con el maestro de la célebre contralto Clara Butt y en la Academia Real de Londres entre 1911 y 1914. Debutó en 1916 en la Compañía Carl Rosa donde permaneció hasta 1924. Impresionado por su voz, el compositor y director Ettore Panizza la recomendó a Arturo Toscanini. Famosa Aída, Leonora (de Beethoven y Verdi), Santuzza, Elisabeth de Tannhäuser, Elsa de Lohengrin, la Gioconda de Ponchielli, Madama Butterfly y Tosca de Puccini. El personaje que la inmortalizó fue la princesa de hielo Turandot que cantó siete meses después del estreno en 1926 en Brescia y posteriormente en Covent Garden y La Scala. Existe un registro histórico con el tenor Giovanni Martinelli dirigido por John Barbirolli considerado referencial. En 1927 debutó en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires como Leonora en Fidelio y en 1928 en Chicago como Aida, Amelia y Siglinda en La Valquiria junto a Frida Leider. Condecorada Dama del Imperio Británico en 1962, se dedicó a la enseñanza en Oklahoma y Londres y entre sus alumnas figuran Gwyneth Jones, Rita Hunter, Amy Shuard, Roberta Knie y Linda Gray. La amplitud y poder de su voz la ubican entre las sopranos heroicas del siglo como Kirsten Flagstad, Birgit Nilsson, Frida Leider, Rosa Raisa (la primera Turandot) y Gertrud Grob-Prandl, se cuenta que la voz de Turner era tan poderosa que podía escucharsela desde la calle cuando cantaba en el teatro de Covent Garden.
- Eva Turner, née le 10 mars 1892 à Oldham, près de Manchester et décédée le 16 juin 1990 est une chanteuse d’opéra anglaise. A 16 ans, elle est admise à la Royal Academy of Music de Londres. Ses études terminées, elle intègre comme soprano dramatique la compagnie Carl Rosa. En 1924, elle est engagée par Toscanini et chante à la Scala les rôles wagnériens. Mais, le rôle où elle excelle est Turandot, qui sera son rôle fétiche. Elle se retire en 1948 et se voue à l’enseignement jusqu’en 1966. Elle est honorée du titre de Dame de l'Ordre de l'Empire britannique en 1962.
- Nel 1924 sostenne con Arturo Toscanini un'audizione per La Scala: il risultato fu positivo e il celebre direttore le fece cantare Freja e Sieglinde nell'Anello del Nibelungo per la stagione 1924-25. Il suo ruolo di riferimento era – ed è tuttora – Turandot. Cantò per la prima volta il temibile ruolo pucciniano nel 1926 al Teatro Grande di Brescia, sette mesi dopo la première. Nel 1928 riprese il titolo alla Royal Opera House (durante quella stagione cantò anche Aida e Santuzza) e l'anno successivo alla Scala. Le incisioni live della sua Turandot del 1937 accanto a Giovanni Martinelli e sotto la direzione di John Barbirolli furono pubblicante solo negli anni '80, ispirando ai critici recenioni brillanti. Quando il compositore Ralph Vaughan Williams scrisse la sua Serenade to music per 16 solisti, incluse alcune linee vocali appositamente per la Turner, separandole però dal resto del gruppo, permettendo alla sua voce potente di trovare uno sfogo. Il soprano incise poi la parte poco dopo la prima. Nel 1948 si ritirò dalle scene e l'anno successivo accettò un contratto annuale per alcune master classes all'Università di Oklahoma: il successo fu tale da indurre ad estendere l'accordo per altri nove anni. Nel 1959 tornò a Londra e le venne assegnata la cattedra di canto alla Royal Academy of Music, un posto che detenne fin quasi i 90 anni. Nonostante alcuni ritennero il suo metodo troppo severo, dalla sua classe si diplomarono molti artisti del calibro di Rita Hunter, Amy Shuard, Roberta Knie e Kiri Te Kanawa. Sempre durante il ritiro, sostenne la International Association of Wagner Societies sia in UK che altrove. A differenza di altri cantanti, le piaceva presiedere a spettacoli, divenendo un membro fisso del pubblico del Covent Garden fino alla morte.
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- Dame Eva Turner DBE (10 March, 1892–16 June,1990) was a dramatic soprano whose well-trained voice was renowned for its clarion power. Born in Werneth, Oldham, England, her first formal singing lessons were with Dan Rootham, the teacher of Clara Butt. From 1911 to 1914 she studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
- Eva Turner DBE va ser una soprano anglesa. Realitzà els estudis musicals a Bristol amb Albert Richards. Debutà el 1916 com un dels patges de Tannhäuser en la companyia de Carl Rosa, en la que hi va romandre fins el 1924. Fent el paper de Madama Butterfly, amb aquesta companyia, fou escoltada per E. Panizza, el qual la feu cantar a Milà en el rol de Freia de L'or del Rin. Cantà en una companyia italiana itinerant per Alemanya diversos rols de soprano dramàtica, com ara Aïda.
- Eva Turner fue una soprano dramática inglesa nacida en Werneth, Oldham, Inglaterra reconocida como una de las voces más poderosas del siglo, excelsa en roles de Wagner, Verdi y especialmente como Turandot de Puccini, considerada por muchos como la exponente definitiva del papel. Estudió con el maestro de la célebre contralto Clara Butt y en la Academia Real de Londres entre 1911 y 1914. Debutó en 1916 en la Compañía Carl Rosa donde permaneció hasta 1924.
- Eva Turner, née le 10 mars 1892 à Oldham, près de Manchester et décédée le 16 juin 1990 est une chanteuse d’opéra anglaise. A 16 ans, elle est admise à la Royal Academy of Music de Londres. Ses études terminées, elle intègre comme soprano dramatique la compagnie Carl Rosa. En 1924, elle est engagée par Toscanini et chante à la Scala les rôles wagnériens. Mais, le rôle où elle excelle est Turandot, qui sera son rôle fétiche.
- Nel 1924 sostenne con Arturo Toscanini un'audizione per La Scala: il risultato fu positivo e il celebre direttore le fece cantare Freja e Sieglinde nell'Anello del Nibelungo per la stagione 1924-25. Il suo ruolo di riferimento era – ed è tuttora – Turandot. Cantò per la prima volta il temibile ruolo pucciniano nel 1926 al Teatro Grande di Brescia, sette mesi dopo la première.
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