Mary Costa

About Mary Costa

The voice of Princess Aurora in Disney's 1959 animated feature Sleeping Beauty made her a household name among opera singers and actresses. In 1989, she earned the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Mary Costa is an American retired opera singer and actress. Her most notable film credit is providing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 Disney animated film Sleeping Beauty, of which she is the last surviving original voice actress of the first three Disney Princesses created in Walt Disney's lifetime and for which she was named a Disney Legend in 1999. Costa is an operatic soprano. She is a recipient of the 2020 National Medal of Arts.

Alma mater	Los Angeles Conservatory of Music
Born	April 05, 1930, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Notable work	Voice of Aurora in Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Years active	1942–2000 (acting)
Occupation	Opera singer, actress

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Trivia

She sang in forty-four operas total, including Leonard Bernstein's Candide and RCA's La boheme.

Mary Costa before fame

She sang in Sunday schools starting at the age of six; after studying at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, she started working for Disney and then worked a gala concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

Achievement of Mary Costa

She appeared in a total of forty-four operas, including Leonard Bernstein's Candide and the RCA production of La Boheme.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Mary Costa family life

She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, as an only child. From 1953 through 1966, she was married to Frank Tashlin.

Associations of Mary Costa

She appeared on Johnny Carson's, Don Knotts', Jim Nabors', and other talk shows.

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