The New York City Opera’s opening production of Handel’s Julius Caesar last week was just minutes old when Contralto Maureen Forrester fixed hand to forehead, shuddered “Woe unto me,” and fainted dead ...
From the time Contralto Marian Anderson first realized that she had a remarkable voice, she wanted to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. In those days, hiring a Negro artist was unthinkable at the Met.