Patrice Munsel Dies at 91 Soprano Became a Star at the Met as a Teenager - The New York Times
Kathryn Shattuck
“I’m sure when I emerged from my mother’s womb, the doctor slapped me, I hit a high C and slapped him back,” she wrote in a biographical sketch on her website.
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