Nina Lawson

Lawson grew up in Forth, South Lanarkshire in Scotland, and attended Stowe Hairdressing College in Glasgow. She began her professional career as a theatrical hair-stylist at the Carl Rosa Opera Company in London. She then worked for the Sadler's Wells Opera and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada. She was hired by Rudolf Bing, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, in October 1956 and left Stratford. The Met moved from renting wigs to purchasing a large inventory.

At the end of the 1987–88 Met season, Lawson retired to Ayr, Scotland. She died there of pernicious anemia on 9 September 2008, aged 82.^[1]

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