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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 .
Virginia Opera is an opera company based in the Commonwealth of Virginia which was first organized in 1974 by a group of Norfolk, Virginia community volunteers.. In September 1974, Thomas A. Lipton was engaged to produce a fully professional production of Puccini's LA BOHÈME to ascertain the prospects for successful establishment of an professional opera company for the Virginia Opera ...
Adelina Patti (19 February 1843 – 27 September 1919) [1] was an Italian opera singer. At the height of her career, she was earning huge fees performing in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang in public as a child in 1851, and gave her last performance before an audience in 1914.
Jane Stuart Smith, also known on the stage as Gianna Stuart, [1] (September 29, 1925 – January 14, 2016) was an American soprano, hymnologist, and author.. A native of Virginia, Smith trained as a singer at Hollins College, the Juilliard School, the Tanglewood Music Center, and privately under her principal voice teacher Ettore Verna.
This timeline of music in the United States covers the period from 1850 to 1879. It encompasses the California Gold Rush, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and touches on topics related to the intersections of music and law, commerce and industry, religion, race, ethnicity, politics, gender, education, historiography and academics.