Alice Joséphine Pons (April 12, 1898 – February 13, 1976), known professionally as Lily Pons, was a French-American operatic lyric coloratura soprano and...
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and patron of the arts Lily Peters (died 2022), American female murder victim Lily Pons (1898–1976), French-American actress Lily Postlethwaite (born 2001)...
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C'est lui!" (It's him! It's him!) (Nilankantha, Lakmé, Gérald) 1940: Lily Pons (Lakmé), Armand Tokatyan (Gérald), Ezio Pinza (Nilakantha), Ira Petina...
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during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Cole Porter, Gian Carlo Menotti, Lily Pons, Sir Thomas Beecham, and other celebrities were counted among her fans...
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first husband. Florence decides to resume singing lessons after she sees Lily Pons in concert with Bayfield. She hires pianist Cosmé McMoon, who is shocked...
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domestic cat that he had "painted over in an op art design". Opera singer Lily Pons and musician Gram Parsons are also known to have kept ocelots. Moche ceramic...
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Garden, Tito Schipa, Beniamino Gigli, Claudia Muzio, Georges Thill, and Lily Pons. The Hôtel de Paris, established in 1864 by Charles III of Monaco, is...
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romantic comedy film directed by John Cromwell. It stars Henry Fonda and Lily Pons, as well as Lucille Ball in an early supporting role. It has been described...
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Melba, Yehudi Menuhin, Grace Moore, Maria Müller, Gregor Piatigorsky, Lily Pons, Vladimir Rosing, Tito Schipa, Elisabeth Schumann, Oda Slobodskaya, Conchita...
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Memorial Opera House on December 31, 1979. His first wife was soprano Lily Pons from 1938 to 1958, when they divorced. They owned a home in Palm Springs...
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Carnegie Hall, Beverly Sills sang the first performance in New York since Lily Pons performed it at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1943. This opera is famous...
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1936 American musical comedy film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, and Gene Raymond. The film made a profit of $101,000. John...
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20th-centuries were often mounted for stars including Luisa Tetrazzini and Lily Pons. Curzon, p. 7 Macdonald, Hugh. "Delibes, (Clément Philibert) Léo", Grove...
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the Vienna State Opera. She portrayed the French-American soprano star Lily Pons and performed "The Bell Song" from Delibes' opera Lakmé in a downward-transposed...
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says Lily Pons: "was kissed by an ape at Dr. Voronoff's monkey farm near Menton, France". Another Time article, this time from 1936, says "Singer Lily Pons...
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from 1940 to 1942, appearing with Helen Jepson in Madama Butterfly, with Lily Pons in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, with Risë Stevens in Mignon and in...
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were able to overcome their problem, including Ariel Pink, Al Jolson, Lily Pons, Brian Wilson, Virginia O'Brien, Michael Gambon, Grimes, Lorde, Carly...
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BCL (November 12, 1945). "Riding the Airwaves". The Milwaukee Journal. "Lily Pons the Guest Star Tonight of Danny Kaye, Back from Tour". Montreal Gazette...
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1935 Fonda starred in the RKO film I Dream Too Much with the opera star Lily Pons. The New York Times announced him as "Henry Fonda, the most likable of...
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country by joining the USO, performing in Europe with notable stars such as Lily Pons and Marlene Dietrich. After the war, he returned home to South Dakota...
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a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh. It stars Lily Pons and Jack Oakie. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1938 in the category...
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Peerce (vocalist) Gregor Piatigorsky (cellist) Ezio Pinza (vocalist) Lily Pons (vocalist) Fritz Reiner (conductor) Artur Rodziński (conductor) Arthur...
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promising young singers. Their most famous find was Lily Pons, who the couple managed until Pons and the couple had a falling-out. Gay and Zenatello set...
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Grace Moore (1898–1947) Maria Müller (1898–1958) Iva Pacetti (1898–1981) Lily Pons (1898–1976) La Julia Rhea (1898–1992) Erna Sack (1898–1972) Rosalind von...
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p. 100. Retrieved 26 July 2019. Cocteau, Jean. The Blood of a Poet. Lily Pons, trans. New York: Bodley Press, 1949, p. 1. Francis Steegmuller, "An Angel...
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Look up Pons or pons in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pons (Catalan pronunciation: [pons]) is a surname of Catalan origin. It is also given name. Within...
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Roberta Peters, Gianna D'Angelo, Victoria de los Ángeles, Beverly Sills, Lily Pons, Diana Damrau, Edita Gruberová, Kathleen Battle and Luciana Serra. Famous...
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noted collaborators were such operatic luminaries as: Eileen Farrell, Lily Pons, Paul Robeson and Richard Tucker under the direction of several conductors...
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singer not to accept the pay cut. There were in fact several others, Lily Pons and Rosa Ponselle among them; and it is well documented that Gatti-Casazza...
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drummer and bandleader: 136 Steve Poltz – singer-songwriter and guitarist Lily Pons – operatic soprano: 207 Louis Prima – singer-songwriter, actor, and trumpeter...
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