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Article: Obituaries: ELIZABETH FRETWELL
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- Opera News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Murrumbeena, Australia, August 13, 1920 - Sydney, June 5, 2006
Originally trained as a ballerina, the soprano had an active singing career in her native Australia before she and her second husband, baritone Robert Simmons, chose to move their professional base of operations to London in the early 1950s. Tall, handsome and charismatic, Frerwell soon became one of the leading artists of the Sadler's Wells Company, her repertoire encompassing Violetta, ...