Barbara Smith Conrad News
singer (1937-2017)
- mezzo-soprano
- United States of America
- singer, opera singer, musician
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2017-06-01 02:00:00
American mezzo-soprano Barbara Smith Conrad died in May 2017
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-05-25 14:16:40
Barbara Smith Conrad, Mezzo-Soprano Who Figured In Civil Rights Struggle, Dead At 79
It in 1957, her first year at U. Texas-Austin - and the first year black students were admitted as undergrads - that Conrad was cast as Dido, opposite a white student, in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. She was harassed not only by white students but also by state legislators, who threatened to withhold funding from the university if she were not replaced.
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2017-05-25 10:56:14
Death of a breakthrough Met mezzo
The death is reported on May 22 of Barbara Smith Conrad, a Texas mezzo who sang at the Met from 1982 to 1989 and won leading roles with Houston, Pittsburgh, City Opera and the Vienna State Opera. She was 79. Barbara was in the first group of Afro-American students to be admitted to the University of Texas in 1956. After singing Dido in Purcell’s opera, she was attacked by whites students on her way home. The university then dropped her from the production. Harry Belafonte stepped in with a pledge to pay her college fees wherever she wanted to study, but Barbara stayed in Texas, determined to defeat prejudice by achieving graduation. At the end of her singing career, she was appointed professor.
2014-11-01 21:10:04
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