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Opera’s Biggest Fan Leaves Behind a Sprawling Time Capsule Pavarotti, Domingo, Sills, Fleming and many more: Perhaps 200,000 autographs are piled in a vacant East Village apartment. A signed headshot of the soprano Carol Vaness inscribed to Lois Kirschenbaum, who died last month and was the queen of the Metropolitan Opera’s stage door since the 1950s.Credit.Vincent Tullo for The New York Times “To Lois.” For many of opera’s greatest stars since the 1950s, writing that phrase before signing an autograph was both a rite of passage and an honor. After they had finished a long performance at the Metropolitan Opera, singers like Beverly Sills, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and Renée Fleming knew that Lois Kirschenbaum would be waiting at the stage door to greet them. The artists admired her almost as much as vice versa.

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