Mary beth peil biography of albert einstein

Mary Beth Peil (born June 25, 1940 in Davenport, Iowa) is an American actress and soprano.

She trained as a soprano at Northwestern University under Lotte Lehmann, and gave her senior recital on April 9, 1962.

Other influential teachers in her development in the university's music department included Robert Gay, the director of the opera program, and Ewald Nolte, who taught courses in music theory and composition and conducted a university chorus in which Peil performed.

Mary beth peil biography of albert einstein

While a college student she was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority.

In her senior year, Peil performed the role of Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata in a student production directed by Gay at Northwestern; a performance which was attended by Boris Goldovsky.

This led to an invitation to audition for Goldovsky's opera company for an upcoming national tour of that opera. She was offered a contract, and moved to New York City in order to take that job. She made her professional debut as Violetta i