Just read the touching note in my e-mail that you sent to your Mom's relatives and friends. Since we did not have time to confer on the obituary that Kim is writing, I just want to help with the data that you may not have.
Korea-born lyric soprano who was active in opera and concert in the l950s, 60s and 70s. She received a bachelors' and masters degree in music from the University of Southern California, where she studied voice with Lillian Backstrand Wilson. She trained for opera under Carl Ebert and Glynn Ross and was a scholarship student of the famous Lotte Lehmann specializing in German lieder. She toured Germany and Austria under the auspices of the US State Department. She sang in concerts and opera in Korea, Germany, Belgium, South America as well as the United States, including San Francisco, Los Angles, Hawaii, Cincinnati, Houston, Seattle, and other cities.
Her signature role was as Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly which she sang in Italian, German and English more than a hundred times. The Rosenthal China Company in Germany immortalized her Butterfly in a porcelain china figurine in both white and color. One of her last appearances in concert was at Alice Tully Hall in New York and in opera as Cio-Cio-San with the Seattle Opera. In addition to opera and concert, she sang the lead in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Flower Drum Song" and in two of John Wayne's movies - "The High and the Mighty" and "Blood Alley."
Love,
Uncle Charles
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