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Article: APPRECIATION; Eileen Farrell, gifted soprano, at 82.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
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- The Boston Herald
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- March 26, 2002
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Eileen Farrell, the great American soprano of Irish descent with the hearty laugh and even heartier voice, died Saturday at the age of 82 at a nursing home in Park Ridge, N.J. The cause of her death was not immediately disclosed.
Born in Willimantic, Conn., to vaudeville-singer parents, Ms. Farrell became a national radio star in the 1940s. Her huge, warm voice of seemingly limitless power was ideally suited to the grand scale of Wagner and Verdi operas. Ms. Farrell, however, preferred the concert hall and the recording studio to the opera house. She provided the singing voice for actress Eleanor Parker in the 1955 movie version of the life of polio-stricken ...