Blanche Thebom, a mezzo-soprano who was discovered singing in a shipboard lounge as a teenager and went on to sing more than 350 performances with the Metropolitan Opera, died on Tuesday at her home ...

Blanche Thebom, a mezzo-soprano who was discovered singing in a shipboard lounge as a teenager and went on to sing more than 350 performances with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, died Tuesday at ...

The American mezzo-soprano Blanche Thebom was not only a fine singer with a lovely voice, she was also a very beautiful woman with a superb figure and amazing hair that, when let down, hung well below ...

Blanche Thebom, who has died aged 94, was a mezzo-soprano "discovered" while singing in a ship's lounge; she went on to enjoy a career at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, lasting more than 20 ...

American opera singer Blanche Thebom, centre, is seen in London in 1957 with Mary Elizabeth Maugham, left, and French actress Leslie Caron after the premiere of an opera based on the Somerset Maugham ...

Blanche Thebom, a mezzo-soprano who was a mainstay at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for decades, died March 23 at her home in San Francisco of heart failure, said Dr. Peter Greenberg, a longtime ...

A tall girl with dark brown braids and a mezzo-soprano voice stepped out on the Metropolitan Opera’s gilt-framed stage for the first time. Making her debut as Fricka in Die Walküre, Blanche Thebom ...

In Philadelphia last week, Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom declaimed the bitter story of Medea to the subdued accompaniment of the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was the world premiere of a 20-minute musical ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Blanche Thebom, a mezzo-soprano who sang more than 350 performances with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, died March 23 of pneumonia in her San Francisco home, a longtime friend ...

SAN FRANCISCOSAN FRANCISCO — Blanche Thebom, a mezzo-soprano who sang more than 350 performances with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, has died. From the 1944 to 1967, Thebom was a star of the Met, ...