Married to trumpeter and songwriter Hugo Peretti, she achieved her greatest success creating content for children as the "Lady in Blue" in partnership with her husband; releasing dozens of albums with sung and spoken material from 1947 into the early 1960s.
[3] At the age of 18, Winters' abilities as a coloratura soprano drew the attention of conductor Ernö Rapée who cast her in a novelty act with another young coloratura soprano, Cyrel Roodney, for performances in a variety show at the Radio City Music Hall in 1938.
[1] After leaving Broadway in 1941, Winters spent the remaining years of World War II performing with the Boston Comic Opera Company (BCOC) with whom she toured as a leading soprano in productions of several operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Pinafore (as Josephine[7]), Ruddigore (as Rose Maybud),[8][9] Iolanthe (as Phyllis),[10] The Gondoliers (as Gianetta),[11] Patience (as the title heroine[12]), and The Pirates of Penzance (as Mabel)[13] at Boston's Majestic Theatre in 1942.
[19][20] From 1948 through 1951 she starred in multiple vaudeville productions at Radio City Music Hall; performing as a soloist with an orchestra led by conductor Alexander Smallens,[21] and with entertainers like The Rockettes,[22][23] and Cilly Feindt.
[1] In 1947 the couple released Lady in Blue, the first of many children's albums featuring Winters as that eponymous character on the Mayfair label.