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SANTLEY, SIR CHARLES (1834- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 194 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SANTLEY, See also:SIR See also:CHARLES (1834- ) , See also:English vocalist, son of an organist at See also:Liverpool, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:February 1834. He was given a thorough musical See also:education, and having determined to adopt the career of a See also:singer, he went in 1855 to See also:Milan and studied under Gaetano Nava. He had a See also:fine baritone See also:voice, and while in See also:Italy he began singing small parts in See also:opera. In 1857 he returned to See also:London, and on 16th See also:November made his first See also:appearance in the See also:part of See also:Adam in The Creation at St See also:Martin's See also:Hall. In 1858, after appearing in See also:January in The Creation, he sang the See also:title-part in See also:Elijah in See also:March, both at See also:Exeter Hall. In I859 he sang at Covent See also:Garden as Hoel in the opera Dinorah, and in 1862 he appeared in See also:Italian opera in Il Trovatore. He was then engaged by Mapleson for Her See also:Majesty's, and his See also:regular connexion with the English operatic See also:stage only ceased in 1870, when he sang as Vanderdecken in The Flying Dutchman. His last appearance in opera was in the same part with the Carl See also:Rosa See also:Company at the See also:Lyceum See also:Theatre in 1876. Meanwhile, in 1861 he sang Elijah at the See also:Birmingham Festival, and in 1862 was engaged for the See also:Handel Festival at the Crystal See also:Palace. At the musical festivals and on the See also:concert stage his success was immense. In such songs as " To Anthea," " See also:Simon the Cellarer " or " Maid of See also:Athens," he was unapproachable, and his See also:oratorio singing carried on the finesttraditions of his See also:art. He was knighted in 1907.

In 1858 Santley married Gertrude See also:

Kemble, and their daughter, Edith Santley, had a See also:great success as a concert singer.

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