Lipton was born in New York City. She won a scholarship to the Juilliard School and made her debut as Pauline in Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades for the New Opera Company in Manhattan in 1941.[1] After making her first appearance with the New York City Opera in 1944, she went on to appear 401 times at the Metropolitan Opera.[2][3] Her most frequent assignments at the Met were as Annina in Der Rosenkavalier and Emilia in Otello. She also performed as Mrs. Sedley in Peter Grimes in 1948, Mother Goose in The Rake's Progress, in 1953, and Madame Larina in the 1957 Peter Brook staging of Eugene Onegin.[4] Her final appearance at the Met was as the Innkeeper in Boris Godunov in 1961.-Wikipedia
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