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, 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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

Blanche Thebom died at her home in San Francisco on March 23 a week after contracting pneumonia. She was 94. Thebom performed more than 350 times at the Met from 1944 to 1967 and was especially known ...

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 ...

One by one, the teenage girls in long skirts or jeans, T-shirts or sleeveless blouses walk onto the stage and introduce themselves. Some are bold and brassy. Others hold back. Some are klutzes. Still ...

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, ...