Enrico Caruso reportedly "regarded her with affection and respect". Cole Porter, Gian Carlo Menotti, Lily Pons, Sir Thomas Beecham, and other celebrities were counted among her fans. No one, before or since, has succeeded in liberating themselves quite so completely from the shackles of musical notation." ĭespite – or perhaps because of – her technical incompetence, she became a prominent musical camp cult-figure in New York City during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Stephen Pile ranked her "the world's worst opera singer. Clair Bayfield (1909–1944 her death)įlorence Foster Jenkins (born Narcissa Florence Foster J– November 26, 1944) was an American socialite and amateur soprano who became known, and mocked, for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability. Frank Thornton Jenkins (1885–1906, separated 1886)
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