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Pages in category "African-American male opera singers" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In 1960, at 26, he won a National Arts Club scholarship competition, [4] and the following April he was the first Black singer to win the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions scholarship competition. [5] Shirley is the first Black tenor and the second Black male to sing leading roles for the Metropolitan Opera. [2] He sang there for 11 ...
Pages in category "20th-century American male opera singers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 303 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
African-American male opera singers (43 P) Pages in category "African-American opera singers" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Edward Matthews (1904 or 1905 – 20 February 1954) [1] was a pioneering African-American baritone opera singer.. Matthews was born in Ossining, New York. [2] In 1934, he created the role of Ignatius of Loyola in Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts, which he reprised in the 1952 revival of the opera – his last appearance on Broadway.
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
Florida Grand Opera’s production of ‘I pagliacci’ stars two Black singers smashing stereotypes in white opera world.
Lawrence Mervil Tibbett (November 16, 1896 – July 15, 1960) was an American opera singer and recording artist who also performed as a film actor and radio personality. A baritone with large, deep, and dark-timbred voice.