Lily Pons
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1898
- Died
- 1976
- Works
- 2
Top works
- The blood of a poet
- Lily Pons gala
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1898-04-12
- Active to
- 1976-02-13
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 791
- Total plays
- 5,198
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Lily Pons (April 12, 1898 – February 13, 1976) was a French-American coloratura soprano. Born Alice Joséphine Pons in Draguignan near Cannes, Pons first studied piano at the Paris Conservatory, winning the First Prize at the age of 15. During World War I, she played piano and sang for soldiers in Paris hospitals. She also sang at receptions in Cannes. In 1925, encouraged by soprano Dyna Beumer, she started taking singing lessons from Alberti de Gorostiaga in Paris. <a href="https://www.last.fm/
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A program for annotating and predicting the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms, SnpEff
· 2012 · cited 11,283x
- A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing
· 2010 · cited 9,935x
- Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs
· 2016 · cited 6,579x
- Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome
· 2011 · cited 6,387x
- A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes
· 2012 · cited 6,033x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lily
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Draguignan
- Place of death
- Dallas
- Spouse
- Andre Kostelanetz
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Lily Pons, NPG 97 214 (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- coloratura soprano
Show 11 more facts
- place of burial
- Cannes (Grand Jas) Cemetery
- Commons category
- Lily Pons
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- date of birth
- 1898-04-12
- date of death
- 1976-02-13
- Fach vocal classification
- coloratura soprano
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Lily Pons
- start of work period
- 1928-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Alice Joséphine Pons
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