Eva Turner

Eva Turner (Oldham, 10 March 1892 - 16 June 1990) was a British soprano. She gained international fame during her singing career. ==Biography[ Edit] == Turner was born in Oldham, a town in England. Her first singing lessons were given by Dan Rootham, who also gave singing lessons to the contralto Clara Butt. From1911 to 1914 she studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She began her career as a chorus singer with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, which aimed to represent the opera in London and also in other parts of Britain. They took ever greater roles, as madame Butterfly in the opera Madama Butterfly, Micaela in Carmen and Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana .

After an audition for La Scala in 1924, she was deployed by the conductor Arturo Toscanini as Freia and Sieglinde for the La Scala version of Der Ring des Nibelungen.The role where they are most familiar with it has become was the role in the Italian opera by Giacomo Puccini, Turandot. In this she played the Chinese princess Turandot.At the premiere of this opera at La Scala in 1926 she sat in the audience. Self she sang the opera for the first time in december that year in the theatre of Brescia. The following years they played at various locations. In 1929 she played the opera at La Scala, the theater where they Turandot first saw and heard.

When the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote his Serenade to Music for 16 solo singers he wrote rules for four Sopranos, including Eva Turner. He placed the rules of Turner apart from the other three Sopranos, so that her powerful voice clearer could come forward.

In 1948 stopped Turner with gig. The following year she was a feature offered on the University of Oklahoma as a voice teacher. They agreed to a one-year contract, which was later extended to nine years. After this, she went to London (in 1959), where she worked on the Royal Academy of Music (where they had studied first) as Professor of singing. This she did to them in the 1980s. Her way of teaching released a number of successful students, such as Kiri Te Kanawa.

In 1962, Turner "Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire". She died on 16 June 1990, at the age of 98.