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          On July 3, , the mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson died of complications from breast cancer..

          Mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, who had previously triumphed over breast cancer, died at her home in Santa Fe on July 3.

          Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

          American mezzo-soprano

          Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (March 1, &#; July 3, ) was an American mezzo-soprano. She was noted for her performances of both Baroque era and contemporary works.

          Her career path to becoming a singer was unconventional – formerly a professional violist, Lieberson did not shift her full-time focus to singing until she was in her thirties.

          Life

          One of four children,[1] Lorraine Hunt was born to parents who were both involved with opera in the San Francisco Bay Area.

          Hunt Lieberson had died "after a long illness." For the last 18 months she had sung only sporadically, canceling most performances, citing.

        1. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (March 1, – July 3, ) was an American mezzo-soprano.
        2. On July 3, , the mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson died of complications from breast cancer.
        3. On the day before the Fourth of July, the mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson died of complications from breast cancer, at the age of fifty-two.
        4. On the day before the Fourth of July, the mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson died of complications from breast cancer, at the age of fifty-.

          5. Her mother, Marcia, was a contralto and music teacher and her father, Randolph, taught music in high school and college. She performed as a child in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel & Gretel, as a gingerbread boy. She returned to opera after taking part in a charity performance of the same work at a prison, this time taking Hänsel's role.[2] After this performance, she auditioned for the Met, at age

          While rehearsing in his opera Ashoka's Dream a