Dorle Jarmel Soria (December 14, 1900 – July 7, 2002)[1] was an American publicist, producer of classical music recordings, and journalist.
She played a significant role in establishing the stature of Arturo Toscanini, then the music director, during the orchestra's 1930 European tour.
At Soria's insistence, Cetra-Soria releases included both complete Italian librettos and English translations, setting the standard to which fans of recorded opera are now accustomed.
[15] A producer of the MET's "Historic Opera" series, she received an award in 1986 for her work on issuing the 1939 broadcast of Simon Boccanegra on long playing records.
[1] In October 2023, literary press Outpost19 published a biography of Dorle Soria's life, Master Lovers,[17] written by her great-nephew, American writer David Winner.
[18] The book was a Publishers Weekly Editors' Pick[19] and chronicles Soria's romantic affairs with British Mandate Palestine governor Bill Barker, Syrian antiquities dealer Georges Asfar, suspected American Nazi John Carter, English conductor and composer Albert Coates, Indian geneticist JBS Haldane, and other men during the 1930's and beyond.