Archives of Maryland
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Rosa Melba Ponselle (1897-1981)
MSA SC 3520-13604

Sources:

Newspapers: 

Pollack, Randi M. “Rosa Ponselle Day Proclaimed.” The Sun. 19 January 1972

“Rosa Ponselle Dies at 84 at Her Villa Pace Estate.” The Sun. 26 May 1981

Smith, J.Y.  “Soprano Rosa Ponselle, 84, Once Called ‘Caruso in Petticoats,’ Dies.” The Washington Post. 26 May 1981

Crutchfield, Will. “Rosa Ponselle’s Villas to be Sold.” New York Times. 07 April 1986

Jellinek, George. "Rosa Ponselle, American Diva." Opera News. 31 Jan. 1998

Smith, Tim. “A Golden Sound, Though Stilled for 20 years The Achievements of Rosa Ponselle, Who Died in 1981 at Her Home in Greenspring Valley, Continue To Astonish; Classical Music.” The Sun. 20 May 2001

Books:

Calcott, Mary Gay. Notable Maryland Women. Ed. Winifred G. Helmes. Maryland: Tidewater Publishers, 1977. Pg. 280

Stegman, Carolyn B. Women of Achievement in Maryland History. Ed. Suzanne Seibert. Maryland: Women of Achievement in Maryland History, Inc, 2002. Pg. 271

Other:

“Ponselle, Rosa Melba." The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. Ed. Kenneth T. Jackson, Karen Markoe, and Arnold Markoe. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 6 Aug. 2013.

“Rosa Ponselle." International Dictionary of Opera, 1993. Biography in Context.
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