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The videos were so disturbing that the judge, Rosina Cottage KC, made sure the jurors watched them as little as possible.

In fact, Gelb has already hired her for future seasons to sing Rosina in Rossini’s “Barber of Seville” and Dalila in Saint-Saens’ “Samson et Dalila.”

For reasons that are unclear, the Roet family ended up in a ghetto instead, where his grandfather Abraham lived in a small apartment with his sisters, Rosina and Adelheid, near one for his parents and the family’s four boys.

His grandfather died in the gas chamber at Auschwitz; his sister Rosina died of Typhus at the camp; his sister Adelheid, her health destroyed by years in concentration camps, died shortly after liberation.

North went on to receive a full scholarship at the Juilliard School of Music and studied under renowned pianist/teacher Rosina Lhévinne, a highly influential mentor whose partisanship could make a student’s career.