The soprano who can trill for a quarter of a century on the coloratura’s high and skittish vocal trapeze is a notable rarity; this musical generation has Lily Pons. At an age (about 48) when most ...

Alice Joséphine Pons, known professionally as Lily Pons, was a French-American operatic soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s. As an opera singer she ...

Some 3,500 people in the new War Memorial Opera House, 15,000 in huge Exposition Auditorium and another great crowd outside City Hall, heard pretty little Lily Pons do her trills and cadenzas in San ...