Martha Lipton Emilia in "Otello". She also performed as Mrs. Sedley in "Peter Grimes" in 1948, Mother Goose in "The Rake's Progress", in 1953, and Madame Larina in the 1957 Peter Brook staging of "Eugene Onegin". Her final appearance at the Met was as the Innkeeper in "Boris Godunov" in 1961. Lipton also sang in Europe. She sang the title role in Benjamin Britten's "The Rape of Lucretia" for the English Opera Group in 1954, and in 1956 starred as Augusta in the world premiere of Douglas Moore's seminal opera "The Ballad of Baby Doe" at the Central City Opera House in
Baby Doe Tabor boarding house, where she had been living under the name "Ruth Norman". For the rest of her life, Baby Doe refused to believe the woman found as Ruth Norman had been her daughter, stating, "I did not see the body they said was my little girl." Alone in the cabin outside Leadville, Baby Doe turned to religion. She considered her life of great wealth a period of vanity and created penances for herself. During the frigidly bitter Colorado high-country winters, she wound burlap sacks around her legs. With no money, she ate very little, living on stale bread and suet,