In a message dated 10/10/00 10:20:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, sopran@a... writes:
<< Off the top of my head--Claire Watson, Seth McCoy, Elisabeth Grummer... Emma Calve got off to a slow start, and Rasponi includes Giulietta Simionato and Germana di Giulio as "late bloomers." >>
And from some of our parents' generation, the Danish tenor Axel Shoetz. I think he was a banker until his thirties, and then World War II interrupted aspects of his life, although Danish people told me a number of years ago that he had made the Nazis very angry by singing nationalistic songs.
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