Maryetta Midgley

Maryetta Midgley

Maryetta Midgley (born 27 May 1944?) is an English soprano.

Maryetta was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the daughter of the International Operatic tenor Walter Midgley and the pianist, Gladys Vernon. Her brother is the international tenor Vernon Midgley. She was educated at the Holy Cross Convent, New Malden, Surrey, England. She won a scholarship to the Trinity College of Music, where she studied singing and the piano.

She began her career with the George Mitchell Singers and made her first radio broadcast as a child in "Round the Horne". She appeared in the "Fol-De-Rols" at the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne and in "Camelot" at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. She has broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 2 in "Friday Night is Music Night", "Melodies for You", "Among Your Souvenirs", "Saturday Night is Gala Night" and "Robert Farnon's World of Music".[1]

She has appeared in the Strauss opera "Wiener Blut", Showboat,[2] the operetta "Les Cloches de Cornville", and La Rondine, with Lorin Maazel in 1981.[3][4] She founded MVM Records and has produced over 15 albums exclusively of the entire family. A unique broadcast of "Friday night is Music Night" was in 1976 at Fairfield Halls Croydon, when all four Midgleys performed together for the once-only time. She retired after 42 years of professional singing in 1992, and now runs an unrelated business with her husband Richard.

Discography

  • "MELODIES, MELODIES ALL THE WAY". Maryetta Midgley (soprano), Vernon Midgley (tenor), Orchestra of Romance conducted by Harold Geller. Philips 6382 113

References

  1. ^ http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/March%201976/100/778482/MELODIES,+MELODIES+ALL+THE+WAY.+Maryetta+Midgley+(soprano),+Vernon+Midgley+(tenor),+Orchestra+of+Romance+conducted+by+Harold+Geller.+Philips+6382+113+(0.85).
  2. ^ http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=144214
  3. ^ http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk/CLPUROND.HTM
  4. ^ http://oq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/2/3/203

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