“I am not a dazzler”: How Marian Anderson’s fashion legacy recast the role of opera... Fashion historian Raissa Bretaña explores how Anderson's sartorial choices "ultimately helped shape her persona ...

The Study at University City will partner with Opera Philadelphia and Marian Anderson Historical Society for an interactive all-ages event incorporating music, art and literacy as part of the Free ...

Houston Grand Opera presents its 68th world premiere “Marian’s Song,” composed by Damien Sneed to a libretto by Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton, Houston’s poet laureate emeritus. According to a news release, ...

Directed by Rita Coburn, the documentary film “Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands” (2022) chronicles the life and career of opera star and civil rights pioneer Marian Anderson. The first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Affectionately known to audiences as “The Lady from Philadelphia” and “The People’s Princess,” the contralto, who died in 1993, is ...

Sixty years ago, opera singer Marian Anderson made her long overdue debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera. She was its first African-American... Marian Anderson's Groundbreaking Met Opera Moment It ...

Marian Anderson was the first African-American soloist to perform with the Metropolitan Opera and paved the way for such future greats as Leontyne Price and Jessye Norman. She had a purity of tone in ...

A sold-out recital in March 1940 forever changed the story of downtown Medford’s Holly Theatre. Classical singer and Black civil rights activist Marian Anderson, who was denied performing in the ...

Nearly 30 years after her death in 1993, renowned opera performer Marian Anderson remains one of the most recognizable names in American music. Anderson spent much of her life challenging prejudices ...

The film will chart how the pioneer overcame racial prejudice to become an internationally renowned star and voice for social justice. THIRTEEN’s American Masters series and Philip Gittelman ...