Maryetta Midgley: Difference between revisions

'''Maryetta Midgley''' (born 27 May 1944?1942)<ref>ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk, Statutory registers: Births</ref> is an [[England|English]] [[soprano]] singer.

MaryettaMidgley was born in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland]], the daughter of the International Operaticoperatic [[tenor]] [[Walter Midgley]] and the pianist, [[Gladys Midgley|Gladys Vernon]]. Her brotherShe is the internationalsister of [[tenor]] [[Vernon Midgley]]. She was educated at the [[Holy Cross ConventSchool, [[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 (Scottish musician)|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 [[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 has appearedperformed in the Strauss opera "''[[Wiener Blut (operetta)|Wiener Blut]]"'', ''[[ShowboatShow Boat]]'',<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=144214< |title = Kern: Show Boat /ref> John Mcglinn - Emi Great Recordings of the operettaCentury: "11801863|website=Arkivmusic.com}}</ref> ''[[Les Clochescloches de Cornville"Corneville]]'', and ''[[La Rondinerondine]]'', 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 &#124; Oxford Academic|website=Oq.oxfordjournals.org}}</ref>

She founded MVM Records and has 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 offrom professional singing in 1992, andafter now42 years, and runs an unrelated business with her husband Richard.

* "MELODIES''Melodies, MELODIESmelodies ALLall THEthe WAY"way''. Maryetta Midgley (soprano), Vernon Midgley (tenor), Orchestra of Romance conducted by [[Harold Geller.]], Philips 6382 113

{{reflistReflist}}

[[Category:English femaleoperatic singerssopranos]]

[[Category:English1940s opera singersbirths]]