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Dame Eva Turner DBE (10 March 1892 - 16 June 1990) was an English dramatic soprano with an international reputation. Her strong, steady and well-trained voice was renowned for its clarion power in Italian and German operatic roles. ==Career== Eva Turner was born in Werneth, Oldham, Her first formal singing lessons were with Dan Rootham, the teacher of the contralto 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 lead role of Cio Cio San in ''Madama Butterfly'', Micaela in ''Carmen'', Musetta in Puccini's ''La bohème'', Santuzza in ''Cavalleria rusticana'', Donna Anna in ''Don Giovanni'', Elisabeth in ''Tannhäuser,'' Freia in ''Das Rheingold'', Elsa in ''Lohengrin,'' Brünnhilde in ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'', Leonora in ''La forza del destino'', Leonora in ''Fidelio'', Eva in ''Die Meistersinger,'' and the title roles in ''Aida'', ''Tosca'' (in one performance of which the famous incident with a trampoline occurred) 〔http://www.talkclassical.com/2021-cause-injurious-singing.html〕 and ''Thaïs''. In 1924, after an audition for the La Scala company in Milan, she was engaged by its principal conductor Arturo Toscanini as Freia and Sieglinde for the La Scala Ring Cycle of 1924–25. She also played the title role in ''Turandot''. She was in the audience for the April 1926 premiere at La Scala and first sang it in December that year at the Teatro Grande in Brescia. In 1928, she performed it at the 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 Covent Garden in 1937 with Giovanni Martinelli as Calaf and John Barbirolli conducting remained unissued at the time but were released on EMI CD CDH 7610742 in the 1980s. When Ralph Vaughan Williams composed his ''Serenade to Music'' for 16 leading singers of the day he included lines for Eva Turner, but separated them from those for the other three sopranos. A 1938 recording of the work, conducted by Sir Henry Wood and made immediately after the premiere, captures Turner's voice in the lines Vaughan Williams wrote for her (was issued by Columbia on 2 12" 78 rpm discs, LX 757/58, and later re-issued on a 7" microgroove disc, SED 5553. It is now on CD from Dutton Vocalion. ) 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「Eva Turner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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