Dorothy Kirsten

Biography

Dorothy Kirsten (July 6, 1910, Montclair, New Jersey – November 18, 1992, Los Angeles, California) was an American operatic soprano who was the first singer in the Metropolitan Opera's history to perform on that stage for 30 consecutive years, and the first opera star to appear on the cover of Life magazine. In addition, she was the founder of the John Douglas French Alzheimer's Foundation, named in honor of her husband, John "Jack" Douglas French, MD, who died from Alzheimer's disease in 1989.

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  Firestone Presents Your Favorite Christmas Music Volume 4

  1965

Credited work

114 releases · 33 albums · active 1950–2025

• Performance · 142
• Other credits · 7

Studios: Columbia 30th Street Studio · The Metropolitan Opera House · Lotos Club, New York · RCA Victor Studios, Hollywood

Frequent collaborators

• Frank Sinatra
• Puccini
• Gordon MacRae
• Bing Crosby
• Charles Gounod
• Jerome Kern
• Gordon Macrae
• The Metropolitan Opera

Around the web

• Wikipedia