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.

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 ...