#opera singer

View of soprano Leontyne Price in Puccini's opera, "Tosca." Stamped on back: "NBC photo." Handwritten on back: "Miss Price in Act II."

Happy Black History Month

Black Opera Singers

Their names are presented below, in chronological order from top to bottom

Marian Anderson 1897-1993

Paul Robeson 1898-1976

Leontyne Price 1927- Still Living

William Warfield 1920-2002

Elizabeth Greenfield 1824-1876

George Shirley 1934- Still Living

Caterina Jaboro 1898-1986

The wonderful Maria Callas 🌹

That video of weird insistent hand-kissing of every female co-star when the said women were clearly not playing into it that went viral and made girlies on the internet swoon? Cringe. Performative. Unnecessary. He started getting bigger roles and rebranded instantly. Started dating Kylie Jenner. Started dressing in hoodies and shaved his romantic curls. The thing is, from a superficial standpoint, he's not even conventionally attractive enough to get away with it. He's not Brad Pitt. He's not good-looking enough to get away with being "a hot douche" who gets a pass. He's starting to look and dress like Adam Sandler.

And now he's out here saying he doesn't want to do ballet or opera because it's dead, nobody cares about it anymore, it's not where the money is, etc. And the worst thing is, I saw his speech pattern analysis by a voice actor, and it confirmed that he was initially trying to seem cool by saying it, then realised it was a hot take when he didn't get the reaction he hoped. But instead of apologising, he doubled down and made more ill-timed jokes, even going as far as to say that even if some people get upset over it, it's not going to affect his money income, bragging how he has too many fans to worry.

You don't need to be into opera and ballet to realise how much talent and training they require. He does one mediocre musical and he believes he'd be begged to star in opera and ballet? It's not an acting role you get by sucking someone off. How stupid is this guy?

Still think he's Lana Del Rey coded and is a man written by a woman?

P. S. I'm not saying the guy actually needs to be super classy and quote poetry all the time. But he's clearly not who we thought and we should stop romanticizing celebrities based on seeing them perform bare minimum like help a woman with her dress. I'm not saying it's not okay to like them. I kinda like Tom Holland, for example. Seemingly normal, down-to-earth guy, slight golden retriever vibes. Didn't play too much into Hollywood and aesthetics. Worked hard on his movies, locked down and married Zendaya. AND he actually used to do ballet! You don't see him insulting it, because he actually knows how hard it is. But the guy who knows nothing about it and nobody would want him in it anyway is acting like he's above it.

Every single Opera and Ballet Company:

Sarah Fischer (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 23 February 1896 

DOD: 3 May 1975

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish, Polish

Nationality: French/Canadian

Occupation: Opera singer, music teacher, arts administrator