Eleanor Lausch
Eleanor Lausch Dietrich, (July 30, 1912 – May 4, 2001) was an American operatic soprano. Born to Austrian immigrant parents in Brooklyn, she grew up in Queens. She was trained as a pianist, organist, and a singer, and began her opera career at the Vienna Volksoper in 1939. World War II interrupted her opera career, and she resumed performing in operas in Austria in the late 1940s after the war. She appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in 1951, and afterwords was active as radio singer in Europe in the early 1950s. In 1953 she returned to Queens and was active as a concert soprano in the New York City region into the early 1970s. In 1963 she married Reverend Lester Dietrich. She lived in Oceanside, Long Island from 1971 until her death in 2001.
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