Camilla Williams, believed to be the first African American woman to appear with a major U.S.opera company, has died. She was 92.
Williams died on Sunday at her home in Bloomington, Ind., according to
her attorney, Eric Slotegraaf. She died of complications from cancer,
said Alain Barker, a spokesman for the Indiana University Jacobs School
of Music, where Williams was a professor emeritus of voice.
Williams' debut with the New York City Opera on May 15, 1946, was
thought to make her the first African American woman to appear with a
major U.S. opera company and came nearly nine years before Marian
Anderson became the first African American singer to appear at New
York's more prestigious Metropolitan Opera.
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