Queena Marian Tillotson, known professionally as Queena Mario, was an American soprano opera singer, newspaper columnist, voice teacher, and fiction writer.
10 Facts About Queena Mario
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Queena Mario was raised in Plainfield, New Jersey, where she graduated from Plainfield High School.
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Queena Mario studied voice with Marcella Sembrich, who advised her name change.
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Queena Mario paid for voice lessons by writing newspaper advice columns under the name Florence Bryant, including childrearing advice; "You know a lot when you're 16, you have a lot of theories," she explained of her qualifications.
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Queena Mario made her stage debut with the San Carlo Opera Company in 1918.
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Queena Mario sang at the Metropolitan Opera over 300 times, beginning in 1922 and with a last performance in 1938.
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Queena Mario taught voice at the Juilliard School in New York and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
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Queena Mario can be heard on at least six recordings from 1924 and 1933, made for the Victor Talking Machine Company.
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Queena Mario married Metropolitan Opera conductor Wilfred Pelletier on November 23,1925; they divorced on August 12,1936.
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Queena Mario died in New York in 1951, aged 54 years.