Eleanor Steber [SEP] place of birth
Eleanor Steber
Eleanor Steber (July 17, 1914October 3, 1990) was an American operatic soprano. Steber is noted as one of the first major opera stars to have achieved the highest success with training and a career based in the United States.
Biography.
Eleanor Steber was born in Wheeling, West Virginia on July 17, 1914. She was the daughter of William Charles Steber, Sr. (1888–1966) and Ida Amelia (née Nolte) Steber (1885–1985). She had two younger siblings – William
is typically sung by a soprano, it is also sometimes sung by a tenor. One such performance of the work with a tenor soloist took place in 2004 at the Launaudiere Festival with Anthony Dean Griffey and the Montreal Symphony, conducted by JoAnn Falletta .
Discography.
- Eleanor Steber, album "Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915", Columbia Masterworks, 1950.
- Eleanor Steber, album "Eleanor Steber in Concert (1956–1958)", VAI Audio, 1958.
- Evelyn Lear, album "