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 brother paid the grocer so that the three women had food. Eventually, in an attempt to keep the decrepit mine going and to raise funds, she reluctantly sold the "Isabella necklace" Tabor had given her, but during her lifetime she refused to sell his gold watch fob. Her older daughter, Lily, left her mother to live with Baby Doe's family in Wisconsin. Later, after her mother died, Lily denied being Baby Doe's daughter. Of the two daughters, Lily, born into wealth, seemed more affected by the fall into poverty. When in 1902, Baby Doe traveled with her daughters to Oshkosh