[3][4] While she knew she wanted to be an opera singer from the time she was six years old,[4] she began her training in Baltimore as a pianist where she studied with Max Landau and Virginia Castelle.
[5] While in grad school Amansky portrayed the role of The Wife the CIM's April 1937 production of Darius Milhaud Le pauvre matelot.
[6] On April 5, 1938 she participated in a concert featuring Liebling' students at Casimir Hall; performing a program of music by Claude Debussy with the pianist Sylvan Levin.
[12] She later repeated the work at the Hill Auditorium at the University of Michigan in May 1939; touring with the Philadelphia Orchestra to perform in Ann Arbor's 46th Annual May Festival.
[14] In July 1940 she performed with PO under conductor Georges Sébastian; singing arias from Die Fledermaus and Eugene Onegin, the folk song "Oh Dear!
[5] In August 1938 she performed a concert of arias by Richard Wagner with the Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Alexander Smallens at the Robin Hood Dell West, including "Dich teure Halle" Tannhäuser, "Du bist der Lenz" and "Ho jo to ho" from Die Walküre, and "Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde.
[16] In January 1940 she appeared with the Philadelphia Opera Company as Countess Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro with Leonard Treash in the title role,[17] and portrayed Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with the POC in April 1940 with Frances Greer as Adele.
[20] She returned to the POC in 1941 as Giorgetta in Giacomo Puccini's Il tabarro[21] Desdemona in the United States premiere of Emil von Reznicek's Spiel oder Ernst?