‘The Lisbon Traviata’ (Stephen): “I’ll never forget the night she did this at the old Met”
STEPHEN: I’ll never forget the night she did this at the old Met. The excitement in the air. Everybody was there. Jackie Kennedy was in a box with Leonard Bernstein. No, that was for the return as Tosca seven years later and she was Jackie Onassis and she was with Adlai Stevenson. I’d been in love with the sound of her voice since the first records. That strange, sad siren song I knew she was