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.

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