A Metropolitan Opera legend has died, aged 97
mainIrene Jordan, who opened the 1947 Met season as Lakmé before upgrading to coloratura soprano, has died in Dalton MA at the great age of 97.
Before she even won her Met debut she was spotted by NBC and awarded her own weekly show, Songs by Irene.
Leonard Bernstein nominated her in 1961 as one of the Top Ten American Performing Artists.
She went on to marry Arnold Caplan, a first violinist in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, and have four children.
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