Bella Paalen

Bella Paalen, real name Isabella Pollak (9 July or 9 December 1881 – 28 July 1964) was an Austrian-American operatic contralto of Hungarian origin. She was engaged for 31 years at the k.-k. Hofoper in Vienna, later the State Opera, was appointed Kammersängerin there in 1933 and had to leave the country after the Anschluss because of her Jewish origins.

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