Lily Pons

See also: Pons

Alice-Joséphine Pons , known as Lily Pons , born with Draguignan the April 12th 1898 and died with Dallas the February 13rd 1976, was a naturalized Chant euse Soprano French American (1941). It begins in Mulhouse in 1928 in Lakmé under the direction from Reynaldo Hahn. It wears a dress of an amazing audacity which reveals the navel boldly to him. It is distinguished with the Metropolitan Opera from New York in 1931 in the Air from the madness ( Lucia di Lammermoor ) where it receives a delirious reception of the public. It remains 28 years with the metropolitan. She marries in 1938 the leader André Kostelanetz with which she organizes rounds in popular concert. She sings in the Indies, in China and Burma for the soldiers combined during the Second world war. In its “discussions with Andre Parinaud” in June 1963, Marlène Dietrich affirms that Lily Pons was the only actress with it with the face to support the American troops in France during the winter 1944.

It puts a term at its career in 1959 and divorces Kostelanetz the same year. It is withdrawn in Dallas where it dies of a cancer. It is buried with the cemetery of Cannes, according to its will.

Hollywood made him make some films, rather poor (That Girl from Paris) . In " The woman in cage" (1937) of Raoul Walsh, it incarnates a young singer of cabaret which dreams to become large singer of opera.

Lily Pons had an acute crystalline lens and incisive, particularly noticed in the air of the small bells of Lakmé which will be its fetish role with Lucia de Lammermoor .

Lily Pons received a star on the Hollywood Walk off Famed as well as the chivalric insignias of the Légion of honor. A small town of the United States adopts even its name. It is buried in Cannes, " the town of one cœur".

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Page of the Town of Cannes devoted to the artists who are buried there.

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