Anna Mary Dickey
David Kunca
actively singing in the 20's and 30's in the US. Any ifo would be
greatly appreciated. Dave
David Shengold
Annamary Dickey (born Decatur IL b. 4/11/1911) made her Met debut 11/29/9 as
L'Ombra Felice in ORFEO ED EURIDICE and also sang Musetta in BOHEME often
there, starting 1/27/40. She sang small parts in MANON, LOUISE, FIGARO and
LAKME and was with the company until1943. She made a later career in supper
clubs and I believe on Broadway, later teaching as Annamary Dickey Laue.
She died 6/1/1999 at 87 in Tampa.
Donations are sought to establish a scholarship fund in Miss Dickey's name.
For more information, call Chris Doane, director of the University of South
Florida School of Music, at (813) 974-2311.
[From Kolodin, the St. Petersburg TIMES & OPERA NEWS' August obit.]
-David Shengold
Jon A Conrad
>She made a later career in supper
>clubs and I believe on Broadway
Most notably originating the role of the protagonist's mother in Rodgers
and Hammerstein's ALLEGRO in 1947, in which she had the songs "A Fellow
Needs a Girl" and "Come Home."
Jon Alan Conrad
Department of Music
University of Delaware
con...@udel.edu
David Shengold
She was the standby Anna for Rise Stevens in the 1964 New York State Theatre
KING AND I revival also starring Darin McGavin, Patricia Neway, Lee Venora,
Frank Porretta and Michael Kermoyan.
-David Shengold