Ina Bourskaya

Ina Bourskaya (September 9, 1886 — June 25, 1954) was a Ukrainian-born American opera singer.

[17] She appeared in a 1930 Vitaphone film short of the temple scene from Aida.

[18] In 1932, Bourskaya scoffed at opera singers' slimming regimens, saying "If the artists of today are truly to portray the works of the great masters, we must not diet, we must not roll on the floors, nor must we try to portray something the old masters knew nothing about.

In the 1940s, Bourskaya used the name Ina Bours, and worked as a receptionist in Chicago, Illinois.

[1][20] Ina Korzeniowska married Witold Bourski, a professor of language and philosophy, in 1908.