Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844-1931) was the youngest child of a British opera composer (John Barnett), who studied music at the conservatory in Leipzig, Germany. She became a prima donna opera singer in Italy under the pseudonym Clara Doria before settling in the US in Boston, MA. She went on to join the music faculty at the New England Conservatory of music and she wrote a book on English Diction!

Musical clips performed by Toni Marie Palmertree, soprano, and Ellen Rissinger, piano:

Op 27 Browning Songs, First Series

• Apparitions
• Ah, Love, but a Day
• The Year's at the Spring

Op 32 Browning Songs, Second Series

• My Star

Recorded at Morningstar Studios in Norristown, PA.

Exactly Counter--Ellen 2, Toni 0

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