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 ...

When renowned opera singer Lily Pons died in Dallas Hospital on Feb. 13, 1976, from cancer, Frederick County lost a friend who had never lived in the county or even visited it in the 38 years prior.