Eleanor Steber has been played on NTS shows including In Focus, with Hermit Songs first played on 24 November 2023.

Eleanor Steber (17 July 1914 – 3 October 1990) was an American operatic soprano. Steber is noted as one of the first major opera stars to have achieved the highest success with training and a career based in the United States.

Eleanor Steber was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1914. She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and was one of its leading artists through 1961. She was known for her large, flexible silvery voice, particularly in the high-lying soprano roles of…