Kicker: LA’s mystery opera singer

MARY REICHARD, HOST: The Los Angeles Police Department posted a video to its Twitter page last week of an unidentified woman on a subway platform. 

The footage showed a humbly dressed woman with her blonde hair pulled to the side in pigtails. Because she was pushing a cart, many onlookers believed her to be homeless.

She was caught on camera doing something surprising. No, she didn’t commit a crime. 

This is what she did …

AUDIO: Sound of woman singing

She sang a haunting rendition of a Puccini aria.

No one seems to know for sure who the mystery woman is or where she came from. 

Some Twitter users claimed to have seen her on stage in front of thousands. Others says she’s been riding the metro and pushing the very same cart for years. 

The LAPD posted the video and tweeted the following: “4 million people call LA home. 4 million stories. 4 million voices…sometimes you just have to stop and listen to one, to hear something beautiful.”

It’s The World and Everything in It.

The Los Angeles Police Department posted this video to their Twitter account of a woman singing in the Los Angeles subway.

WORLD Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative record of WORLD Radio programming is the audio record.