Shirley Verrett
Alyson Cambridge returns home for Washington National Opera's 'Porgy and Bess'
...a few steps since the 1970s and 1980s, when trailblazers such as Leontyne Price, Grace Bumbry and Shirley Verrett made a good start at breaking down the color barrier. "I think...
Music: Julius Rudel, Still Keeping Tabs on City Opera
...after achieving success, moved on, including Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Sherrill Milnes, Shirley Verrett and Catherine Malfitano. "We had to laugh a bit," Mr. Rudel said. "It was...
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Shirley Verrett
...(born May 31, 1931) is an American operatic mezzo-soprano and soprano or soprano sfogato. Verrett enjoyed great fame from the late 1960s and was much admired for her radiant voice, beauty,...
Grace Bumbry
...opening of the new Opera Bastille, she appeared as Cassandre, with Shirley Verrett as Didon. Due to a strike at the opera, Verrett was unable to perform at the re-scheduled last...
Anna Moffo
...Opera Orchestra, Franco Ferrara. 1964 - Verdi - Luisa Miller - Anna Moffo, Carlo Bergonzi, Shirley Verrett, Cornell MacNeil, Giorgio Tozzi, Ezio Flagello - The RCA Italiana Opera...
National Endowment for the Arts presents the 2009 Opera Honors
...opera and the legal profession, citing all the operas that have courtroom or jail scenes. Shirley Verrett was to have co-hosted the evening with Brian Stokes Mitchell, but in a...
Fiorenza Cossotto
...the outstanding alto parts of the Italian operatic repertoire." Among her competitors were Shirley Verrett and Grace Bumbry, Rita Gorr, Christa Ludwig, Marilyn Horne and Tatiana...
Cincinnati Opera
...Norman Treigle, Sherrill Milnes, Montserrat Caballe, Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill, Roberta Peters, Shirley Verrett, Lawrence Tibbett, Richard Tucker, Martina Arroyo, James Morris , and...
Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company
...Sills, Eleanor Steber, Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Richard Tucker, Theodor Uppman, Cesare Valletti, Shirley Verrett, Camilla Williams, and Frances Yeend to name just a few. The final...
Patrizia Ciofi
...took part in master classes at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, with Carlo Bergonzi and Shirley Verrett. She made her debut in Gino Negri's Giovanni Sebastiano at the...
Revealing Ormandy reissues, now on CD
...coupled with downright dull excerpts from Wagner's Parsifal and Brahms' Alto Rhapsody with Shirley Verrett. He is guilty of depending too much on the Philadelphia sound in a...
Operatic Mezzo-Soprano Betty Allen Dies at 82
...of black opera stars, then Miss Allen belonged to the second, along with sopranos Leontyne Price and Shirley Verrett and mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry. At the height of her vocal power...
