ABSTRACT
American opera and concert singer, known also for her renditions of popular songs; born in Willimantic, Connecticut. She made radio and concert appearances in the 1940s, touring the U.S. and Latin America. She was heard in the Decca album of Sigmund Romberg’s Up in Central Park (#A-395; 1945). Following a great success in her New York recital of 1950, she was chosen by Arturo Toscanini to sing in his performance of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony. She won a Grammy for her recording of the Wagner “Wesendonck Songs” in 1962. Farrell was with the Metropolitan Opera from 1960 to 1966, and was a professor of music at Indiana University from 1971 to 1980, and then taught at the University of Maine at Orono from 1983 to 1985.
