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Olga Monks Pertzoff

American, 1911 - 1980

BiographyOlga Monks Pertzoff, grandniece of John Lowell "Jack" Gardner (the husband of Isabella Stewart Gardner, benefactress of Boston's famous museum). Olga's husband, architect Constantine Pertzoff, had designed their home. Olga served as the first vice president of Sarah's Boston Opera Group and Opera Company of Boston. Also a talented costime designer, Olga created costumes for Sarah's for Sarah's 1961 production of Otello, as well as for a local theater group in Concord. Olga hosted chamber concerts in her home...
Sarah Caldwell: The First Woman of Opera
By Daniel Kessler
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