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Martha Lipton 1913 - 2006

Martha Lipton of Bloomington, Monroe County, IN was born on April 6, 1913 at New York, New York County, New York, USA, and died at age 93 years old on November 28, 2006 in Bloomington, Comté de Monroe County. Martha Lipton was buried at Valhalla Memory Gardens 310 N Johnson Ave, in Bloomington, Monroe County.

Martha Lipton

Bloomington, Monroe County, IN 47401

April 6, 1913

New York, New York County, New York, USA

November 28, 2006

Bloomington, Comté de Monroe County, IN, États-Unis

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1913

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April 6, 1913

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New York, New York County, New York, USA

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Professional Career

Opera Singer.
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A mezzo soprano, she followed a distinguished career at the Metropolitan Opera with an even longer one as a respected music professor. Raised in New York City, she attended the Juilliard School on a scholarship and made her 1941 professional bow with the now defunct New Opera Company as Pauline from Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades". Martha first sang with the New York City Opera in February 1944 as Nancy in Friedrich Flotow's "Martha" then on November 27th. of that year had the first of her 401 Metropolitan Opera performances as Siebel from Charles Gounod's "Faust". She was a hit as the prostitute Maddalena in Verdi's "Rigoletto" though over the course of her career her signature pieces were to be Annina of Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" and Emilia, Desdemona's maid from Verdi's "Otello", a 1948 performance of the latter which starred Ramon Vinay, Licia Albanese, and Leonard Warren being the first complete opera ever telecast. Having sung the role of Mrs. Sedley from Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes" at the Metropolitan she traveled to England in 1954 to appear in the same composer's "The Rape of Lucretia" with the English Opera Group. On July 7, 1956, Martha was Augusta Tabor for the world premiere of Douglas Moore's "The Ballad of Baby Doe" with Colorado's Central City Opera; she was to earn praise in important European venues including London, Paris, and Vienna and was to retire from the Metropolitan following her January 7, 1961, appearance as the Innkeeper from Modest Mussorgsky's "Boris Godonov". A faculty member at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music from 1960 on she returned to the Metropolitan for galas in 1966 and 1983, retired to Professor Emerita status in 1983, and continued teaching until her death. She can be heard on a number of archived Metropolitan broadcasts and on several studio sets from the 1950s including Fritz Reiner's presentation of Verdi's "Falstaff", Leonard Bernstein's recording of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3, and Eugene Ormandy's highly regarded 1959 preservation of Handel's "Messiah".
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2006

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November 28, 2006

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Bloomington, Comté de Monroe County, IN États-Unis
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Valhalla Memory Gardens 310 N Johnson Ave, in Bloomington, Monroe County, IN 47404, États-Unis
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Martha Lipton lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 93.

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