Blanche Thebom

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Blanche Thebom (September 19, 1918 - Monessen, Pennsylvania) is an American mezzo-soprano who sang with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for almost twenty years. Upon her retirement from the Metropolitan ca. 1960, she taught and directed opera performance in Atlanta, GA and Little Rock, AR until about 1980. She also appeared in summer theatre revivals of Broadway musicals such as The Sound of Music (as the Mother Abbess) in Atlanta. She is now retired from performing and is coaching young operatic singers in San Francisco, California.