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...Verrett and the princess complained of racism in response....
...Making her Met debut in the role of Princess Eboli in Verdi’s Don Carlo in 1965, Bumbry was among a clutch of African-American singers to flourish in the postwar years — Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett and...
...Consider, too, how many black singers there were, and not minor artists, but A-list celebrities — Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Reri Grist, Grace Bumbry, Shirley Verrett, George Shirley, Simon Estes, Jessye...
...All manner of commanding, full-voiced singers have taken on the title roles at the Met — Rita Gorr, Shirley Verrett, Olga Borodina, Jon Vickers, Plácido Domingo....
...In the 1960s and ’70s there was a generation of great black singers, such as Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Grace Bumbry, Shirley Verrett and others, who were at the top of opera’s first division....
...There is little of the individuality or range of colours of previous Normas at this theatre — Caballé’s grandeur, Bumbry’s classical rigour, or Verrett’s blazing intensity....
...Compared with the generation whose careers lit up the postwar world of opera (Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verrett, Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle), there are precious few of equal standing now...
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