TIME Goes to the Opera

1930: Lucrezia Bori
"Dainty, almost birdlike charm and a faculty for making every stage picture blend gracefully with the music — these are the chief reasons for Bori's success at Manhattan's Metropolitan and at Ravinia. She is a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Valencia, Spain, where she was born, the stage was considered an undignified profession for an aristocrat. Lucrezia went to Italy, changed her name, won fame overnight as Manon Lescaut. She has gone back to Spain many times since then, never once sung there in public."
From: Ravinia, Jun. 30, 1930

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