Nancy Sorensen photographs of Lyric Opera of Chicago productions
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Lyric Opera of Chicago
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Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1954, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicola Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, with a season that included Maria Callas's American debut in Norma. The company was re-organized by Fox in 1956 under its present name and, after her 1981 departure, it has continued to be of one of the major opera companies in the United States. The Lyric is housed in a theater and relate...
Sorensen, Nancy M., 1932-1996
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Nancy M. Sorensen (1932-1964) was a human resources consultant and co-founded Human Resource Management Systems Inc., the first such firm in the field in the Midwest with an all-female staff. She had done similar work for the Harris Bank, where she was responsible for supplying human resource services to 4,000 employees. While there, she had earned promotion to first-line officer and assistant vice president faster than any woman up to that time. She subsequently became a vice president and grou...
