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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 ...
In 1978 he notably became the first black male, African-American or otherwise, to sing a leading role at the prestigious Bayreuth Festival when he sang the lead role in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer. The performance was a personal triumph for him and he went on to sing at Bayreuth for the next six consecutive years.
Audiences enraptured by the Florida Grand Opera’s production of “I pagliacci” and lead singers Limmie Pulliam and Kearstin Piper Brown gave standing ovations to the classic play within a play.
Helen L. Phillips, an African American lyric soprano, who had sung as a substitute chorus member for a Met Opera in 1947, is the only known African American singer to precede him. In 1950 the Metropolitan Opera came under the leadership of Rudolf Bing, who was determined to formally integrate the Met's casting of singers. [1]
Register columnist: The cast and others shared their insights on what made this Des Moines Metro Opera production so special. Opinion: Nearly 60 Black opera singers performed in 'Porgy and Bess ...
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.