Subway To The Met: Rise Stevens' Own Lighthearted Story of the Long Road fri=om the Bronx to Bizet
Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Pictorial endpapers. 240 pp. Illustrations. Fine, bright copy in bright color pictorial dust jacket, bit of minimal rubbing here and there and bleed through shadowing to the edges. Rise Stevens (1913-2013) was a New York City-born mezzo soprano who was a graduate of Julliard, began her career in Vienna and first joined the company of the Metropolitan Opera in 1938, where she would perform for the next two decades. Her voice was famously insured for $1 million by Lloyds of London. Stevens also appeared in a number of Hollywood movies including "The Chocolate Soldier" with Nelson Eddy and "Going My Way" with Bing Crosby. Her most famous operatic role was in "Carmen" and her 1951 RCA recording of the entire work has retained its popularity and availability until the present. Fine / near fine. Item #E25798
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