Pieces of Rainbow

The Author: Elizabeth Nash received her B.F.A. from Columbia University and was awarded a two year Fulbright Grant to study opera in Germany. For the next ten years, she was a leading soprano in German opera houses. She then returned to the United States and earned an M.A. at Teachers College, Columbia University, followed by a Ph.D. at Indiana University. Since 1975, she has been Head of Voice Studies in the Theatre Arts Department at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Nash is the author of the biographies Always First Class: The Career of Geraldine Farrar and The Luminous Ones: A History of the Great Actresses.