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Risë Stevens (/ ˈ r iː s ə /; June 11, 1913 – March 20, 2013) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano and actress. Beginning in 1938, she sang for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for more than two decades during the 1940s and 1950s.
Mar 21, 2013 · Risë Stevens, the internationally renowned mezzo-soprano who had a 23-year career with the Metropolitan Opera, where she practically owned the role of Carmen during the 1940s and ’50s, died on...
Mar 21, 2013 · Risë Stevens, a mezzo-soprano who sang at the Metropolitan Opera for nearly a quarter-century and then went on to become one of the Met's most prominent supporters and administrators, died...
- Tom Huizenga
Mar 22, 2013 · US mezzo-soprano Rise Stevens, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years, has died in New York three months shy of her 100th birthday. Among her greatest roles was the...
The American mezzo Risë Stevens has died at her home in New York three months short of her 100th birthday. Stevens, born Risë Steenberg in New York City, studied at Juilliard and then in Vienna, making her professional debut as Mignon in 1936 in Prague where she met the Austrian actor Walter Surovy.
- James Jolly
The mezzo-soprano with the smoky, sultry voice defined Carmen for generations — and earned Hollywood fame at the prime of her career. Stevens died Wednesday at 99.
Mar 22, 2013 · US mezzo-soprano Rise Stevens, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years, has died in New York three months shy of her 100th birthday. Among her greatest roles was the title...
