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{{Short description|English soprano singer}}
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'''Maryetta Midgley''' (born
▲'''Maryetta Midgley''' (born [[27 May]]) is an [[England|English]] [[soprano]].
She began her career with the [[George Mitchell (Scottish musician)|George Mitchell Singers]] and made her first radio broadcast as a child in ''[[Round the Horne]]''.
▲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 appeared in the "Fol-De-Rols" at the [[Eastbourne|Congress Theatre, Eastbourne]] and in ''[[Camelot (musical)|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". With her brother Vernon she appeared frequently on BBC TV's ''[[The Good Old Days (British TV series)|The Good Old Days]]''.<ref>[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)] {{dead link|date=July 2020}}</ref>
She performed in ''[[Wiener Blut (operetta)|Wiener Blut]]'', ''[[Show Boat]]'',<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=144214 |title = Kern: Show Boat / John Mcglinn - Emi Great Recordings of the Century: 11801863|website=Arkivmusic.com}}</ref> ''[[Les cloches de Corneville]]'', and ''[[La rondine]]'', with [[Lorin Maazel]] in 1981.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk/CLPUROND.HTM | title=Clpurond.HTM|website=Operadis-opera-discography.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://oq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/2/3/203| archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712055849/http://oq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/2/3/203| url-status=dead| archive-date=2012-07-12|format=PDF |title = The Opera Quarterly | Oxford Academic|website=Oq.oxfordjournals.org}}</ref>
She founded MVM Records and produced over 15 albums exclusively of the entire family. In a broadcast of "Friday Night is Music Night" in 1976 from Fairfield Halls Croydon, all four Midgleys performed together for the only time.
She retired after 42 years of professional singing in 1992and now runs an unrelated business with her husband Richard.▼
▲She retired
==Discography==
* [[Show Boat (John McGlinn recording)|Jerome Kern: ''Show Boat'', conducted by John McGlinn, EMI CDRIVER1, 1988]]
* ''Melodies, melodies all the way''. Maryetta Midgley (soprano), Vernon Midgley (tenor), Orchestra of Romance conducted by [[Harold Geller]], Philips 6382 113
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