Eleanor Steber was an American soprano and voice teacher. She was particularly celebrated for her performances in the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss. A native of West Virginia,
Steber in 1952.
Eleanor Steber in La fanciulla del West, Florence, 1954.
Paul Shearer Althouse was an American opera singer. He began his career as a lyric tenor with a robust Italianate sound, in roles including Cavaradossi in Tosca, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and Tur
Eleanor Steber
…win she moved to New York City to pursue further training after being advised to do so by her teacher, William L. Whitney. She studied with tenor Paul Althouse in New York. In November 1939 she won the first round of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air (MOAA) contest by which time she was working as a…