Lois Hunt
Lois Hunt (November 26, 1924 – July 26, 2009) was an American lyric soprano who had spent some of her earlier career performing at New York City's Metropolitan Opera and later spent four decades performing and recording classical music and musical theater numbers nationwide together with baritone Earl Wrightson.
Early life and training
She was born in York, Pennsylvania as Lois Harriet Marcus. She began singing while in elementary school and began a professional career after working with opera coaches in Philadelphia. She had been singing professionally for three years when a Metropolitan Opera assistant manager who had seen her sing in a performance in Colorado of Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, convinced her to head to New York City. There she earned a contract with the Met after her participation in the opera company's 1949 Auditions of the Air competition.
Performing at the Met and on the road
While with the Met, Hunt sang such roles as Adele in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II, Papagena in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute, as well as Musetta in La bohème and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, both written by Giacomo Puccini. She sang the role of Adele in a 1953 presentation of a 90-minute version of Die Fledermaus on television, the first created by the Met for the new medium.
Podcasts:
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by Lisa Scinta
Another Rainy Day
by: Lisa ScintaI'm breaking down, I'm losing it tryna understand where you're coming from. Keep pulling on my heart strings, they're bound to come undone. Gotta make the best out of a bad situation, but try as I might I'm just running out of patience. I'm spinning my wheels but getting absolutely nowhere, any love I give to you is greeted with a blank stare. There's nothing in your eyes but a sentimental distance, nothing in your heart and I'm all out of second chances.
Let the rain fall, fall let the rain fall. Let the rain fall down, down, down (x3)
Let it rain, let it fall, fall to the ground.
Every single promise is as empty as that bottle on your nightstand. You never had a problem loving me with such a heavy hand. You're telling stories 'bout a motive and a circumstance, but you better watch out for the karma and the consequence. I don't know what it is about you I can't fight back. You're like a drug and I'm an addict I can't react. You've got ahold and control of my mind there's no escaping. Gotta leave, gotta get over this sick obsession.
Take it for what it's worth, I'm done with the hurt. I can't keep giving everything for nothing in return.
Let the rain fall, fall let the rain fall. Let the rain fall down, down, down (x3)
Let it rain, let it fall, fall to the ground.
Can you hear me now? I'm crying out. But this broken heart is drowning in the pain. And to you it's just another rainy day.
Let the rain fall, fall let the rain fall. Let the rain fall down, down, down (x3)