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Conchita Supervía (8–9 December 1895〔Steane (2003)〕 – 30 March 1936) was a highly popular Spanish mezzo-soprano singer who appeared in opera in Europe and America and also gave recitals. 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. Later, during her career, pregnancy forced her to cancel her planned appearances in the autumn of 1935. On 29 March 1936 she entered a London clinic to await the birth of her baby, which was stillborn on 30 March; a few hours later she herself died.〔 She was buried with her baby daughter, in a grave designed by Edwin Lutyens, in the Willesden Jewish Cemetery in Northwest London. The grave, which had fallen into disrepair, was refurbished by a group of admirers and re-consecrated in October 2006.〔Julia Keld, ("Conchita Supervia Rubenstein" ), ''Find A Grave'', 31 Jul 2009. Retrieved on 1 March 2013〕 ==Professional career== She made her stage debut in 1910 at the young age of 15 at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina in Stiattesi's ''Blanca de Beaulieu''.〔("CONCHITA SUPERVIA - MEZZO SOPRANO 1895-1936: Liner Notes: Conchita Supervia (1895-1936) - Opera And Song Recital" ), ArkivMusic. Retrieved on 1 March 2013〕 Then she sang in Tomás Bretón's ''Los Amantes de Teruel'' and as Lola in Mascagni's ''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 Costanzi in Rome.〔Henig, Stanley, ("CONCHITA SUPERVIA" ), 2004. Retrieved on 22 September 2009〕 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 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.〔Green, London, ("The Art of conchita Supervia" ), ''Opera Quarterly'', iss. 2, 1984. Retrieved on 22 September 2009〕 All in all, she made more than 200 recordings mostly for the Fonotipia and Odeon labels, featuring not only her famous roles in opera but also a vast song repertory in Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian and English, as well as pieces from zarzuela and even operetta. (She had appeared 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 and ''Carmen''.'' In 1934, Supervía appeared in the Victor Saville British motion picture ''Evensong'' as a singer named Baba L'Etoile, opposite actor Fritz Kortner.〔''Evensong'', IMDb, Retrieved on 22 September 2009〕 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「Conchita Supervía」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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