Felicia María Cohn Montealegre was born on February 6, 1922, in San José, Costa Rica. Her mother, Clemencia Cristina Montealegre Carazo, … See more

In 1963, Montealegre became the first chair of the Women's Division of the New York Civil Liberties Union, where her efforts focused on … See more

Montealegre features prominently in Tom Wolfe's 1970 essay "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's".
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Broadway and theatrical career
In 1944 at age 21, Montealegre established herself in New York, where she took piano lessons from Chilean pianist See more

Montealegre met composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein in 1946 at a party given by Claudio Arrau. After their first engagement to be … See more

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