Opera's Biggest Fan Leaves Behind a Sprawling Time Capsule
Operaâs Biggest Fan Leaves Behind a Sprawling Time Capsule Pavarotti, Domingo, Sills, Fleming and many more: Perhaps 200,000 autographs are piled in a vacant East Village apartment. A signed headshot of the soprano Carol Vaness inscribed to Lois Kirschenbaum, who died last month and was the queen of the Metropolitan Operaâs stage door since the 1950s.Credit...Vincent Tullo for The New York Times âTo Lois.â For many of operaâs greatest stars since the 1950s, writing that...
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