Performed 1936 to 1961.
[1] John Pennino, Ris� Stevens: A Life in Music (2006), page 13: "Reverend Willard succeeded in imparting to her a love for the Episcopal Church. A product of a Lutheran, Jewish home and a Methodist Sunday school, Ris� had no religion that she truly embraced. At sixteen years of age, the Episcopal Church became the answer to her religious needs and Reverend Willard baptized her into the faith. When she married Walter Surovy, a Catholic, she consented to raise any children they might have in his faith, in deference to him."
Father: Christian Carl Steenberg
Mother: Sarah Mechanic ("Sadie")
Brother: Lewis
Husband: Walter Szurovy (m. 6-Jan-1939, d. 4-Nov-2001, one son)
Son: Nicolas Surovy (b. 30-Jun-1944)
High School: Newtown High School, Queens, NY
Conservatory: Juilliard School of Music
Teacher: Juilliard School of Music (1975)
Administrator: President, Mannes College of Music (1975-78)
New York Metropolitan Opera General Manager, Touring Company (1961-66)
New York Metropolitan Opera Leading Mezzo-Soprano (1938-61)
Endorsement of R. J. Reynolds Camel Cigarettes (1949)
Jewish Ancestry Maternal
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Journey Back to Oz (5-Dec-1974) [VOICE]
Carnegie Hall (28-Feb-1947) · Herself
Going My Way (3-May-1944) · Genevieve Linden
The Chocolate Soldier (31-Oct-1941) · Maria Lanyi
AKA Risë Steenberg