{"id":28423,"date":"2013-10-26T06:14:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T10:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=28423"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:44:57","slug":"ladies-and-gentlemen-meet-the-voice-of-sleeping-beautymary-costa-r-was-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=28423","title":{"rendered":"Ladies And Gentlemen&#8230;Meet The Voice Of Sleeping Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/588009494569937\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ladies-And-Gentlemen...Meet-The-Voice-Of-Sleeping-Beauty-Mary-Costa-R-was-b\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before she became the voice that generations would associate with Disney\u2019s <em>Sleeping Beauty<\/em>, Mary Costa was a Knoxville girl with a remarkable gift. Her path led her to a celebrated opera career \u2014 but in 1952, long before the film ever reached theaters, she stepped into a recording booth and brought Princess Aurora to life.<\/p>\n<p>The movie\u2019s journey was epic in its own right. Work on the story began in 1951, animation stretched through most of the 1950s, and the sweeping musical score \u2014 rooted in Tchaikovsky\u2019s ballet \u2014 was recorded in 1957. When <em>Sleeping Beauty<\/em> finally premiered in 1958, it became the last Disney feature created with hand\u2011inked cels, closing the book on an era of painstaking artistry.<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a small delight: the name \u201cAurora,\u201d shared by both the princess and the old model\u2011kit company, means \u201cdawn\u201d in Latin.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo, Costa (right) stands beside Mary Starr, a familiar face to Knoxville television audiences in the \u201950s and \u201960s, captured during one of Costa\u2019s hometown visits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/588009504569936\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before she became the voice that generations would associate with Disney\u2019s Sleeping Beauty, Mary Costa was a Knoxville girl with a remarkable gift. Her path led her to a celebrated opera career \u2014 but in 1952, long before the film ever reached theaters, she stepped into a recording booth and brought Princess Aurora to life. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[725,806],"class_list":["post-28423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-star","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81236,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28423\/revisions\/81236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}