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Operatic contralto. Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) [ 1 ] was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals. Anderson performed with renowned orchestras in major concert and recital venues throughout the United States and Europe between 1925 and 1965. Anderson was an important figure ...
The 90-second newsreel report of Anderson's concert, as distributed in 1939. Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert is a 1939 documentary film that documents a concert performance by African American opera singer Marian Anderson after the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) had her barred from singing in Washington D.C.'s Constitution Hall because she was Black.
Grace Melzia Bumbry (January 4, 1937 – May 7, 2023) was an American opera singer, considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, who also ventured to soprano roles. She belonged to a pioneering generation of African-American classical singers, led by Marian Anderson. She was recognized internationally when Wieland Wagner cast ...
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1963–1991. Martina Arroyo (born February 2, 1937) [1] is an American operatic soprano who had a major international opera career from the 1960s through the 1980s. She was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve wide success. Arroyo first rose to prominence at the Zurich Opera between 1963 and 1965, and then was one of ...
Walter Dawson. . (m. 1927) . Mary Lucinda Cardwell Dawson (1894–1962) was an American musician and teacher and the founding director of the National Negro Opera Company (NNOC). [1] Mary Cardwell Dawson's House at 7101 Apple Street in the Homewood West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This was the original home of the National Negro ...
Veronica Tyler. Categories: African-American classical musicians. African-American singers. American opera singers. Opera singers by ethnicity.
Caterina Jarboro (July 24, 1898 – August 13, 1986) was an American opera singer. She was the first female black opera singer to sing with a major company, twenty-two years before Marian Anderson's début at the Metropolitan Opera.