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American opera singer stubs (147 P) Pages in category "American opera singers" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total.
The opera singer Jean de Reszke introduced Cisneros, then known as Eleanor Broadfoot, to the manager of the Metropolitan Opera company in 1899 and she was hired. [6] Cisneros was the first American trained opera singer the Metropolitan Opera company hired. [4] [5] Previous to this, the company would only hire singers formally trained in Europe.
The first opera known to have been performed in the American colonies was the ballad opera Flora, which was performed in Charleston, South Carolina in 1735. [2] [3] Later in the century, The Beggar's Opera was performed in New York City in 1750. [4] This continued the trend of the popularity of ballad operas. [4]
Singers are sorted by their year of birth. Those singers whose birth year is unknown are sorted by the first year that they are known to have flourished. This list should not include singers who have never performed in a staged opera with the exception of historic non-white singers who were barred from the opera stage in varying parts of the ...
Sir Rudolf Bing, 5,000 Nights at the Opera: The Memoirs of Sir Rudolf Bing (Doubleday, 1972). Peter G. Davis, The American Opera Singer: The Lives and Adventures of America's Great Singers in Opera and Concert from 1825 to the Present (Anchor, 1999). Plácido Domingo, My First Forty Years (Alfred A. Knopf, 1983).
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) [1] was an American contralto.She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals.Anderson performed with renowned orchestras in major concert and recital venues throughout the United States and Europe between 1925 and 1965.
21st-century American male opera singers (104 P) B. American operatic baritones (150 P) American operatic basses (50 P) T. American operatic tenors (1 C, 223 P)
Maria Callas [a] Commendatore OMRI [1] (born Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos; [b] December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American and Greek soprano [2] and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.