- Tatiana's parents separated when she was an infant with a brother 13 months older; her parents divorced when she was around 8 years old. She spent some time in an orphanage, former disturbed girls' home, and a co-ed boarding house. She became very close to her Aunt Irene.
- Tatiana's father was born on Cephalonia, Greece, but she hardly knew the Greek language. Her mother, from Stuttgart, Germany, spoke some German to her children. Tatiana's German was not that good but helpful when she went to Europe for auditions in Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Zurich.
- Tatiana Troyanos died August 21, 1993 in New York City from 1984 breast cancer, which, on July 15, 1993, was diagnosed at Lenox Hill Hospital to have metastasized to the liver. She passed away 5 weeks later, 3 weeks before her 55th birthday.
- Tatiana went to Brooklyn Music School, on scholarship, studying piano, which she continued to play in adulthood, e.g. when learning a new opera. She spent 7 years studying piano at Children's Home and Music School so she knew she was going to have a career in music.
- Tatiana spent some time in an orphanage, the Brooklyn Home for Children in Queens, which she described as "bleak but marvelous", and where they sang, performed plays, dances, wore costumes, and so forth. She said she wanted to become an opera singer at the age of 9.
- In her late teens, not liking living in a former home for disturbed girls on E. 19th St. near Gramercy Park, Tatiana moved to a co-ed boarding house on E. 39th St. The old Met, where she was a standee as a teenager, was on 39th St. further west.
- Tatiana sang at the First Presbyterian Church and got scholarships from the church and, with her high school teacher's help, from Juilliard, to go to school there.
- Tatiana Troyanos was in 35 live Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. Eight Met Opera performances; joint concert there with Placido Domingo, James Levine; Norma: Canadian Opera; Capriccio: San Francisco Opera; were telecast. Plus Devils of Loudun, her first; Oedipus Rex; Norma: La Scala: first worldwide satellite opera; telecast in Europe.
- Tatiana came from a musical family who "sang beautifully"; her father was a tenor and her mother was a coloratura soprano, though not professionally.
- Tatiana's early opera-singing favorites were: Mario Lanza and Jane Powell, during childhood (obviously her father and mother); Rise Stevens and Maria Callas, as a teen (they were idols).
- Tatiana lived in brownstones: on 88th St. a little west of Broadway while going to Juilliard School and on 75th St. east of Columbus Ave. while at NYC Opera. Tatiana lived in co-ops: Riverside Drive/82nd St. and Central Park West/92nd St. while at Met Opera.
- Tatiana Troyanos' last opera performances were as Clairon in Richard Strauss' Capriccio at San Francisco Opera from June 12 to July 1, 1993.
- Tatiana last sang, in hospital, for other patients, shortly before she "just dropped" when she was going to tell somebody to turn down their TV (according to a colleague).
- Tatiana Troyanos was mainly a lyric mezzo-soprano who also did spinto soprano, dramatic soprano, coloratura, and dramatic mezzo parts.
- In 17 years at the Metropolitan Opera, Tatiana Troyanos was in over 270 performances in 22 major roles, including from Octavian, the Composer, Sesto (trouser roles) to Eboli, Adalgisa, Santuzza, Venus and Didon, her most famous female roles.
- Tatiana Troyanos spent 10 years at the Hamburg State Opera and as a home base from 1965, singing all over Europe and other places.
- Tatiana Troyanos returned to New York City from Europe in 1975, debuting at the Metropolitan Opera as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier in the following spring, then shortly, the Composer in Ariadne Auf Naxos.
- Tatiana spent a length of time as a chorus member (nun) in the original production of the Sound of Music before embarking on her operatic career.
- In her early adulthood, Tatiana thought she would remain a secretary, but then decided she could make a career in singing.
- Graduated in 1956 from Forest Hills High School in Forest Hills, Queens, New York.
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