Alice Tully

Alice Bigelow Tully was an American singer of opera and recital, music promoter, patron of the arts and philanthropist from New York. She was a second cousin of the American actress Katharine Hepburn.

Alice Tully was born in Corning, Steuben County, New York, the daughter of lawyer and State Senator William J. Tully and Clara Mabel Tully and had one younger sister Marion Tully Dimick . She spent her high school years at the Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut. Tully began her career as a mezzosoprano, then became a soprano. She studied in Paris and made her debut in 1927 with the Pasdeloup Orchestra. In 1933, she appeared in Cavalleria rusticana in New York City.

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