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Showing posts with label American opera company. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American opera company. Show all posts

Monday, August 6, 2012

Teresa Carreño

Maria Teresa Carreño Garcia de Sena (December 22, 1853 – June 12, 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor. -vintage
Source: pettipond | wikipedia

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Caterina Jarboro

Caterina Jarboro (1903–1986) was a pioneering African American opera singer. In 1933 — twenty-two full years before Marian Anderson's début at the Metropolitan Opera — impresario Alfredo Salmaggi hired Jarboro to sing with his opera company at the New York Hippodrome. ‘Caterina Jarboro was the first Black to perform with an American opera company.
 Source: carter-mag. | encyclo.co.uk