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Charles Santley was born on the 28th of February 1834. He was the elder son of William Santley, a journeyman bookbinder, organist and music teacher of Liverpool in northern England. He had a brother and two sisters, one of whom named Catherine should not be confused with the actor-manager Kate Santley.
He was educated at the Liverpool Institute High School, and as a boy sang alto in the choir of a local Unitarian church. His voice began to break before he was fourteen. Following musical lessons from his father (who insisted upon his singing tenor), he passed the examination for admission to the second tenors of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society on his fifteenth birthday, and in the same year took part in the concerts at the opening of the Philharmonic Hall.
He had a fine baritone voice, and while in Italy he began singing small parts in opera. In 1857 he returned to London, and on 16th November made his first appearance in the part of Adam in The Creation at St Martin's Hall. In 1858, after appearing in January in The Creation, he sang the title-part in Elijah in March, both at Exeter Hall. In 1859 he sang at Covent Garden as Hoel in the opera Dinorah, and in 1862 he appeared in Italian opera in Il Trovatore. He was then engaged by Mapleson for Her Majesty's, and his regular connexion with the English operatic 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 Rosa Company at the Lyceum Theatre in 1876. Meanwhile, in 1861 he sang Elijah at the Birmingham Festival, and in 1862 was engaged for the Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace. At the musical festivals and on the concert stage his success was immense. In such songs as "To Anthea, " "Simon the Cellarer" or "Maid of Athens, " he was unapproachable, and his oratorio singing carried on the finest traditions of his art. He was knighted in 1907.
Santley appeared in many major opera and oratorio productions in Great Britain and North America, giving numerous recitals as well.
At the close of the 1868-69 season of the Philharmonic Society of London Santley took part in the final supernumerary concert, held at St James's Hall for the first time before the Society moved there permanently in the next season. He was among the original ten recipients to be awarded the Society's Gold Medal at its first presentation in 1871.
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In 1858 Santley married Gertrude Kemble, and their daughter, Edith Santley, had a great success as a concert singer. They had 3 children.
