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Maria Callas Cornélie Falcon. This is a chronological list of sopranos who have performed in operas from classical music of the Western world.The list spans from operatic sopranos active in the first operas of the late 16th century to singers currently performing.
Marie Decca was the stage name of Mary Smith (née Johnston; after first marriage, Chrisman; after second marriage, Smith; 1859-unknown), an American lyric soprano operatic singer. [1] She became known as the "Jenny Lind of America". [ 2 ]
Pages in category "American operatic sopranos" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 540 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Opera portal; Operatic sopranos are women who sing (or sang) soprano roles in operas for opera companies in opera houses. Subcategories. This category has the ...
She was advised not to sing the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, yet Lewek has performed the role hundreds of times in the finest opera houses in Europe and the United States, [3] holding the record for most performances in the role at the Metropolitan Opera. [6] She has sung at Aix-en-Provence and in Barcelona. [2]
Eileen Farrell. Eileen Farrell (February 13, 1920 – March 23, 2002) was an American soprano who had a nearly 60-year-long career performing both classical and popular music in concerts, theatres, on radio and television, and on disc.
And So I Sing: African-American Divas of Opera and Concert. New York: Warner Books. ISBN 0-446-71016-4. Notable American women, 1607–1950 : a biographical dictionary. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 9781849722711. Wright, Josephine, and Eileen Southern. Sissieretta Jones (1868-1933). Black perspective in music 4.2 (1976): 191 ...
Antoinette Smythe Garnes was born about 1887, in Detroit. She studied at Detroit Central High School, Detroit Conservatory of Music, Howard University, and Chicago Musical College; at the last institution she studied with Edoardo Sacerdote, [1] earned a bachelor of music degree in 1919, [2] and was the college's first black winner of the Alexander Revell diamond medal.