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3 unusual facts about Gordon Getty


Getty Foundation

The Getty Foundation should not be confused with the "Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation," which is based in San Francisco, California, and which awards grants largely "to promote the fields of music, the opera, and the symphony".

Gordon Getty

Aspiring to become an opera singer, Getty studied in the mid-1970s with Louise Caselotti, a mezzo soprano who had been Maria Callas' voice teacher (1946–47).

Louise Caselotti

Her students included billionaire industrialist Gordon Getty, whom she accompanied at a private party in Sausalito, California in early 1976, prior to his unsuccessful professional debut.


Artis Lane

She has made sculptures of prominent people as former President George H. W. Bush, Bill Cosby, Walter Annenberg, Michael Jordan, Gordon Getty, Nelson Mandela and Henry Kissinger.

Goat Hall Productions

Goat Hall has received support from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Marra Foundation, Meet the Composer, MetLife Foundation, Theatre Bay Area CASH Grants, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.


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