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Elizabeth Fretwell
Elizabeth Fretwell OBE (13 August 1920 – 5 June 2006) was an Australian soprano. She was the prima donna at London's Sadler's Wells Opera (English National Opera) through much of the 1950s and 1960s.〔(The Independent obituary )〕
== Early life and career ==
She was born Betty Drina Fretwell in Murrumbeena, a suburb of Melbourne. As a child, she had hoped to become a ballerina. However, she grew too big for this profession. She focussed instead on singing, taking vocal studies in Melbourne. Her operatic career began in 1950. In 1954, she sang Antonia in Offenbach's ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' before Queen Elizabeth II who was on her first tour of Australia.〔Tony Stephens, obituary, ''Swimming and dancing's loss, opera's gain'', The Age, 3 July 2006〕 In order to gain greater skill she moved to London to study under the tenor Joseph Hislop who had also coached Jussi Björling and Birgit Nilsson.〔
After returning to Australia she quickly started to make a name for herself, taking soprano roles in operas by Mozart and Puccini, amongst others. It was while on an Australian national tour of ''Tosca'' that she had an extramarital affair with the Australian baritone Robert Simmons (they were later to marry), with whom she later had a son, John Simmons, now a Melbourne architect, and a daughter Geraldine 'Geri' Roggiero née Simmons now a Sydney wildlife artist. This caused a scandal in 1950s Australia so she and Simmons headed for the United Kingdom.
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