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Ponselle asks if they would like to hear her sing.

This is, of course, a fundamental problem with most forms of sound recording; it fails to capture the thrill of the very biggest voices, whether it’s Birgit Nilsson, Dolora Zajick or Rosa Ponselle.

Jackson was married to opera singer Rosa Ponselle, whom Maria Callas called “the greatest singer of us all.”

A violinist uncle recorded Schubert’s “Ave Maria” with the soprano phenomenon Rosa Ponselle.

She made her operatic debut in 1959, as Adalgisa in Bellini’s “Norma” with the Arkansas State Opera and later studied with the distinguished soprano Rosa Ponselle.