The 17 year old daughter of poor Jewish parents, living on the lower East Side of New York, has the distinction of being the youngest ever to make an operatic debut in New York.
She is Rebecca Weinstein, a high school student, whose operatic debut in the Longacre Theatre on Sunday evening, sponsored by her teacher, Nicola D’Amico, brought forth cheers and a veritable avalanche of floral offerings from her enthusiastic listeners.
Rebecca, who has found in Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, wife of the former ambassador to Turkey, an interested and helpful friend, hopes to continue her musical studies in Italy when she is graduated from high school.
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