“I was born in Budapest. My mother was a fantastic singer. She studied in the Budapest conservatory, which now is called the Franz Liszt Conservatory. She had the most beautiful voice, but she gave her career up to be a wife and mother. I started to sing at age eleven. Paul Abraham was a fantastic composer. He heard me sing and gave me a child’s part in his opera. I was the biggest success because I was a child. I sang all over the world, only classical music ““ the great arias. I toured all over Europe before the age of seventeen.”