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Martha Lipton
Martha Lipton (April 6, 1913 – November 28, 2006) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano.
Biography.
Lipton was born in New York City. She won a scholarship to the Juilliard School and made her debut as Pauline in Tchaikovsky's opera "The Queen of Spades" for the New Opera Company in Manhattan in 1941. After making her first appearance with the New York City Opera in 1944 (their first season, and returned in 1958 and 1961), she went on to
New York Philharmonic under Richard Rodgers in 1954. In 1959 he was the tenor soloist in Handel's "Messiah" under conductor Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra, soprano Eileen Farrell, contralto Martha Lipton, baritone William Warfield, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Carnegie Hall. His last public performance was with the Cincinnati Symphony under conductor James Levine in 1973.
In the early 1970s Cunningham was a member of the voice faculty at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. In 1974 he moved to San Diego where taught