Born Lucrecia Borja y Gonzales de Riancho in Valencia, she studied first in Spain, then in Milan with M. Vidal. Bori made her debut in 1908 at Teatro Adriano in Rome. In 1910 she appeared at the Metropolitan Opera’s first Paris visit as Puccini’s Manon, which she repeated two years later at her official Metropolitan debut in New York.Meanwhile she had sung Octavian in the first Italian performance of Der Rosenkavalier at La Scala, and at the Colón. She sang at the Metropolitan until 1936, except in 1916-1920, when she underwent a number of operations to remedy vocal problems. “Endowed with a voice of modest size, rather limited in the upper register, Bori used its clear and delicate timbre to draw characters of pathetic fragility (Mimi, Manon); she imbued them with intense and passionate feeling and, in the comic repertory, with gentle and stylized charm.” (Rodolfo Celletti)