Marjorie Lawrence
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Marjorie Lawrence
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Marjorie Florence Lawrence CBE was an Australian dramatic soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operas. She was the first Metropolitan Opera soprano to perform the immolation scene in Götterdämmerung by riding her horse into the flames as Wagner had intended. She was afflicted by polio from 1941. Lawrence later served on the faculty of the School of Music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her life story was told in the 1955 film Interrupted Melody, in which
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Australian soprano singer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Lawrence
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2023-08-12T18:31:41Z
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