Por: The Boston Globe Life May 08, 2023
Grace Bumbry, a singer of radiant charisma, expansive range, and superstar glamour who became one of the first African Americans to conquer the international opera stage, died Sunday at a hospital in Vienna. She was 86.Her death was confirmed by her publicist, David Lee Brewer. Ms. Bumbry had suffered a stroke in October.Few audiences had ever heard a Black singer perform in an opera house when Ms. Bumbry was growing up in St. Louis in the 1930s... + full article
WPLG Local 10 USA Entertainment May 08, 2023
NEW YORK – Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world's top stages, has died. She was 86.Bumbry died Sunday at Evangelisches Krankenhaus,... + más
Grace Bumbry, opera singer of lustrous power, dies at 86 | The Boston Globe
Grace Bumbry, 1st Black singer at Bayreuth, dies at 86 | ABC News
ABC News USA Entertainment May 08, 2023
NEW YORK -- Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world's top stages, has died. She was 86.Bumbry died Sunday at Evangelisches Krankenhaus,... + más
Grace Bumbry, trailblazing Black opera star and one of world’s most celebrated singers, dies at 86 | New York Daily News
Associated Press USA Entertainment May 08, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany’s Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top stages, has died. She was 86.Bumbry died Sunday at Evangelisches Krankenhaus,... + más
The Boston Globe USA Nation March 12, 2023
Lewis Spratlan began composing what would become his most honored piece of music in 1975. The New Haven Opera Theater commissioned “Life Is a Dream,” but went out of business before he finished the opera three years later.“It was a double whammy,” Mr. Spratlan, a retired... + más
Jerry Lee Lewis, rock 'n' roll pioneer who sang 'Great Balls of Fire,' dies at 87 | CNN
Review: An L.A. Opera 'Tosca' that's more than it seems | Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times USA Entertainment November 24, 2022
“Tosca” is back at Los Angeles Opera. The well-traveled production by British director John Caird, first seen here in 2013, has been revived. The cast, headed by popular Los Angeles native Angel Blue, as well as the conductor and production team are nearly all familiar.... + más
How Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels turned an enslaved man's narrative into an opera | Los Angeles Times
With its first ‘Don Carlos’ production, Lyric Opera soars to heights seldom seen | Chicago Sun Times
Chicago Sun Times USA Entertainment November 10, 2022
Opera is a fusion of music and theater, and when that alchemical combination happens in an ideal way, as it did Wednesday night at the Lyric Opera House, the results are utterly gripping and thoroughly rewarding. Lyric Opera of Chicago debuted its first-ever production of... + más
Rossini’s comic ‘Le Comte Ory’ a triumph at Lyric Opera of Chicago | Chicago Sun Times
Los Angeles Times USA Entertainment October 21, 2022
Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar from Senegal, wrote an autobiography in 1831 about how he was captured and sold into slavery for decades in the Carolinas. His memoir, written in Arabic, brims with quotations from the Quran; his “Christian” owners stood over his shoulder as... + más
With new headstone, Marblehead won’t let enslaved woman be forgotten | The Boston Globe
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