niece and nephew for an extended period of time. She married three times. Her third husband, Alfred J. Ré, predeceased her. Death She died on January 6, 2009, at a nursing home in Huntington, Long Island, New York. She is buried in the St. Patrick Cemetery in Huntington. Legacy In popular culture Judy Garland mentioned Vivian della Chiesa by name in her Carnegie Hall concert of January 23, 1961, preserved in the Judy at Carnegie Hall album. Garland says, “I must tell you one more thing, about, in Paris again. I got to the intermission, and I changed my dress and got into my pants and in my slacks, and the zipper in the back wouldn’t stay zipped. And so, just before I went on, I put a great big safety pin, you know, so my act wouldn’t get too gay in the middle of it, and I strolled over to the piano at this point and sat down and the pin . . . came undone, and into my derrière. I’ve never sung so high and so fast in my . . . I sounded like Vivian, Vivian Della Chiesa.” Partial discography CD Brahms, Johannes. Requiem. Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Westminster Choir, Herbert Janssen, baritone, Vivian Della Chiesa, soprano. Guild, GHCD 2290 Live broadcast of January 24, 1943. Verdi, Giuseppe. Falstaff. Renato Cellini, New Orleans Opera, Leonard Warren as Falstaff, Vivian Della Chiesa as Alice. VAI Audio Montemezzi, Italo. L'incantesimo. World premiere recording with the NBC Symphony under the composer's baton. Souvenirs from Verismo Operas Volume 4 on the IRCC label. LP Verdi, Giuseppe. "I Lombardi Act III, 'Qui, posa il fianco….Qual volutta trascorrere'". Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra; Vivian Della Chiesa, soprano, as Giselda; Jan Peerce, tenor, as Oronte; Nicola Moscona, bass, as the Hermit. Live Broadcast of January 31, 1943. RCA Victor LM-6041. Come Rain, Come Shine. 20th Century Fox Records TFM 3140 References External links National Library of Australia biography Photo of Newsday newspaper, Long Island, NY 1915 births 2009 deaths American people of Italian descent American operatic sopranos Singers from Chicago Nightclub performers 20th-century American women opera singers Classical musicians from Illinois 21st-century American women