Conchita Supervia

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Conchita Supervía (December 9, 1895–March 30, 1936) was a notable and successful Spanish mezzo-soprano singer. Supervía was born in Barcelona to an old Andalusian family and given the baptismal name of María de la Concepción Supervía Pascual. She was educated at the local convent but at the age of twelve entered the Conservatory of the Liceo in Barcelona to study singing. She made her stage debut in 1910 at the young age of 15 in Buenos Aires, Argentina in Tomás Bretón’s opera Los amantes de Teruel. In 1911 she sang the role of Oktavian in the first Italian production of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier at the Teatro Constanzi in Rome. In 1912 she appeared as Carmen at the Teatro del Liceo in her native city, a role with which she would be associated for the rest of her career. She made her American debut in 1915 as Charlotte in Jules Massenet’s Werther at the Chicago Opera, where she also sang in Mignon and Carmen. Back in Europe by the end of the First World War she was invited to Rome, where she started the Rossini revival that made her world-famous – as Angelina in La cenerentola, Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, in the original keys. Conchita Supervía had exactly the type of voice for which Rossini wrote these works – a "coloratura" mezzo-soprano. A powerful chest register linked to a flexible upper voice that could cope easily with florid passages, allied to a musicianship of great individuality and refinement – she could fine a

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Lebendige Vergangenheit - Conchita Supervia

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Supervia in Opera and Song

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The Golden Age Of Great Contraltos & Mezzos

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Conchita Supervia Sings Carmen

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Creator Records, Vol. 2

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Joaquín Turina: Grabaciones Históricas

Prima Voce Sampler

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The Unknown

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The Glory of Spain: Songs and Arias

Conchita Supervia & The Gypsies

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Les voix d'or extraordinaires

Arias & Songs

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