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Nordica

Lillian Nordica as the Bayreuth Elsa, ca. 1894

Lillian Nordica as the Bayreuth Elsa, ca. 1894

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Nordica Memorial Association

Nordica was the first American diva to sing Wagner and the first to sing Elsa. She studied the role under Cosima Wagner, Richard Wagner's wife.
Nordica was born Lillian Norton in Farmington in 1857.


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