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was a Japanese opera singer who performed as Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's ''Madama Butterfly''. ==Biography== She was born on February 22, 1884 in Japan. Miura made her operatic debut in Tokyo in 1911 and the same year went to Europe to perform and study. She was first cast as Cio-Cio-San by the innovative director Vladimir Rosing as part of his ''Allied Opera Season'' held in May and June 1915 at the London Opera House.〔Williams, Gordon. ''British Theatre in The Great War: a reevaluation'' pg. 271-273., New York: Continuum (2003)〕 In the autumn of 1915, she performed the role in America for the first time in Chicago with the Boston Opera Company. Positive reviews led to further performances in both Madama Butterfly and Mascagni's ''Iris'' in New York, San Francisco and Chicago, before returning to London to work with the Beecham company. In 1918 she returned to the United States where for two seasons she performed both ''Madama Butterfly'' and André Messager's ''Madame Chrysanthème''. The latter was not well-received, being viewed as a warmed-over ''Butterfly''. In 1920 she was a guest performer at opera houses in Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Florence and Rome. Upon her return to Japan from this tour, she stopped in Nagasaki in 1922 to see places connected with the opera and to give a concert. In 1924, Miura returned to the United States to perform with the San Carlo Opera Company. Two years later she again went to Chicago to create the title role in Aldo Fanchetti's ''Namiko-San''. After this she took part in various tours and sang in Italy( March 1931 she performed at the Teatro Verdi of Pisa with the famous tenor Armando Bini, at Carani in Sassuolo, Modena in Livorno, Florence, Lucca, Pistoia, Torino, Novi Ligure, Rimini ) before returning to Japan in 1932. She died on May 26, 1946 in Japan. 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「Tamaki Miura」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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