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April Cantelo (born 2 April 1928) is an English soprano. == Life and career == She was born Rosemary April Cantelo in Purbrook, Hampshire. She attended Chelmsford County High School for Girls.〔(Chelmsford County High School for Girls )〕 She studied in London under Vilém Tauský, Joan Cross, Imogen Holst and others. She sang in the Glyndebourne Chorus and then made her debut in Edinburgh in 1950 as Barbarina and Echo.〔Blyth, A. April Cantelo. In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera''. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.〕 In the first half of the 1950s she sang Barbarina, Countess Ceprano and Poussette at Covent Garden. Cantelo sang in the British premieres of Hans Werner Henze's ''Boulevard Solitude'' (Manon Lescaut) and Kurt Weill's ''Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny'' (Jenny). She appeared in the world premiere of Malcolm Williamson's ''English Eccentrics''. Among the roles she created are: * Lady in ''The Grace of Todd'' (Gordon Crosse) * Susan in ''Dinner Engagement'' (Lennox Berkeley) * Orpah in ''Ruth'' (Berkeley) * Helena in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (Benjamin Britten) * Berthe in ''The Violins of Saint-Jacques'' (Williamson) * Beatrice Weston in ''Our Man in Havana'' (Williamson) * Swallow in ''The Happy Prince'' (Williamson) * Ann in ''Julius Caesar Jones'' (Williamson) * Semele in ''Semele'' (John Eccles). April Cantelo made several appearances at the Henry Wood Proms between 1958 and 1973, singing in ''Carmina Burana'', Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony, Berlioz ''Les nuits d'été'', (under Basil Cameron), Malcolm Williamson's ''Our Man in Havana'' (vocal suite), Purcell's ''The Indian Queen'', Cavalli's Messa concertata, excerpts from Monteverdi operas, Purcell odes and Haydn's Mass in D minor 'Nelsonmesse'.〔(BBC Proms database search on April Cantelo. )〕 Cantelo took part in the inaugural concert of the Purcell Room in London on 3 March 1967 ('Homage to Henry Purcell') with Robert Tear, Raymond Leppard and Bernard Richards. She directed a production of Henry Purcell's ''The Fairy-Queen'' in New Zealand in 1972. In 1974 Cantelo sang Xantippe in the first professional UK production of Telemann's ''Der geduldige Socrates'', for Kent Opera.〔Platt N. ''Making Music.'' Ashford, Pemble Productions, 2001, p70.〕 Grove describes her voice as "a pure, clear lyrical soprano, not large, but capable of flexibility and variety of expression", describing her as "a very gifted singing actress".〔 Her private pupils included Rosemary Joshua. April Cantelo married the conductor Colin Davis in 1949. They had two children, Suzanne and Christopher. The marriage was dissolved in 1964 after he fell in love with Ashraf Naini, a young Persian woman who was visiting London at the time, and who became his second wife. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「April Cantelo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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