Opera star Marilyn Horne, known for her performances in Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck” and Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma,” has also been singing the praises of her Upper West Side apartment for the past 40 years.
The famed mezzo-soprano would walk to work from her home at 10 W. 66th St. to the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.
“It took me seven minutes to get from here to the Met stage door,” she tells Gimme Shelter.
Now Horne is putting her beloved home on the market for $4.5 million. “It has one of the greatest views in New York,” she says. “I have a special chair where I like to sit and watch the twilight.
The light is so special here in New York.” Horne bought the duplex for a mere $126,000.
“It was a ridiculous price because I was an insider. I was renting at the time, and then it went co-op,” she explains.
The sunny duplex (with sunset views) is also where Horne sang her heart out offstage, often with dear friends including late opera stars Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti. “This place has heard a lot of music,” she says.
The three- to four-bedroom pad is around 2,200 square feet. It comes with a large eat-in kitchen and a terrace.
Horne, now 83, is moving to Santa Barbara, Calif. — where she has a home and has taught young singers — to be closer to her daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren. Horne’s legacy, though, continues on the East Coast and beyond via Carnegie Hall’s Marilyn Horne Legacy.
There’s even a museum about her life in her hometown of Bradford, Penn.
Her co-op’s listing brokers are Douglas Elliman’s Tom Postilio and Mickey Conlon.