American opera singer Introduction

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 63. Chapters: Abbie Mitchell, James Valenti, Isabel Leonard, Rebecca Sjöwall, William Stone, Bruce Hubbard, Paul Plishka, Camilla Williams, Bessie Abott, Dolora Zajick, Daniel Belcher, James Morris, Kelley O'Connor, Claudia Lindsey, Lawrence Brownlee, Kate Lindsey, Jean Madeira, Carol Plantamura, Cyrena van Gordon, Fritzi Scheff, Norman Foster, Elizabeth Caballero, Margaret Jane Wray, Alicia Berneche, Stephanie Blythe, Nicholas Isherwood, Monte Amundsen, Shirley Love, Sondra Radvanovsky, Kevin Short, Nathan Gunn, Bettina Freeman, William Diard, Marie Tiffany, Roy Cornelius Smith, Chris Merritt, Linda Lister, Alice Tully, Herbert Witherspoon, Mimi Lerner, Thelma Votipka, Edna Garabedian, Susan Larson, Jeannine Altmeyer, Maxim Karolik, Diana Soviero, Eric Owens, Janice Felty, Kirk Redmann, Adam Flowers, Jane Henschel, Ned Romero, Marilyn Tyler, Karen Williams, Martin Dillon, Susan Powell, Nmon Ford, Carlton Gauld, Judith Bettina, Robert Nagy, John Keyes, Minnie Hauk, Mariska Aldrich, Jon Robert Cart, Cynthia Makris, Eleanor Painter Strong, Sanford Sylvan, Ara Berberian, Frank Forest, Lambert Murphy, Susan Owen, Arlene Saunders, Emilio de Gogorza, Philip Skinner, Steven B. Jepson, Mark Delavan, Robin Follman, Leonard Treash, Richard Stilwell, Robert Dean Smith, Frank Kelley, Eglise Gutiérrez, Thomas Rolf Truhitte, Clara Louise Kellogg, Julian Patrick, David Gordon, Margaret Daum, John Duykers, Irene Dalis, Riccardo Martin, Maryann Mootos, Barbara Dever, Gloria Davy, Emma Lucy Gates Bowen, Anita Darian, Carol Vaness, Bethany Beardslee, Dale Duesing, Mary LeSawyer, Dorothea Alastair MacVane, John Reardon, Charles Hackett, Louise Caselotti, Eliza Biscaccianti, Rebecca Copley, Marie van Zandt, Hanan Alattar, Richard Wentworth, Noel Jan Tyl, Derek Lee Ragin, Lisa Vroman, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, William Martin, Junetta Jones, Cristina Fontanelli, Gioacchino Livigni, Anthony Dean Griffey, Lorenzo Malfatti, Florence Kopleff, Susan Narucki, Maurice Stern, Alyson Cambridge, Alwina Valleria, Elizabeth Amsden, Jonathan Stinson, Jubilant Sykes, William Pearson, Tammy Hensrud, Nancy Gustafson, Dorothy Byrne, Andreas Poulimenos, Nan Merriman, Paul Ukena, William Franklin, Philip Maero, Jennifer Johnson, Brenda Boozer, Frederick Jagel, Nancy Maultsby, Jennifer Zetlan, Joyce Castle, Kristine Jepson, Ruth Stewart, Ron Bottcher, Sarah Rice, Dwayne Croft, Matthew Polenzani, La Julia Rhea, Michael Best, Catherine Naglestad, Mary Mackenzie, Ellen Shade, Charles Bressler, Stephen Totter, Florence Macbeth, Edward Matthews, Caterina Jarboro, Robert Brubaker, Kathleen Cassello, Adelaide Phillips, Terry Barber, Paul Groves, Edith Mason, Nedda Casei, Raymond Michalski, Scott Ramsay, Richard Troxell, Mark St. Laurent, Stephen Gould, Russell Christopher, Lillian Evanti, Jianyi Zhang, Eleonora de Cisneros, Elizabeth Mannion, Belle Cole, Monte Pederson, Thomas Carey, Warren Coleman, Richard Cowan, Barry McCauley, Alice Esty, April Evans, Michael Sylvester, Robert Mosley, Felicia Weathers, Gwynne Geyer, Eleanor Lausch Dietrich. Excerpt: Abriea "Abbie" Mitchell (25 September 1884 - 16 March 1960), also billed as Abbey Mitchell, was an American soprano opera singer who sang the role of "Clara" in the premier production of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in 1935. Mitchell was the daughter of an African-American mother and a Jewish-German father from New York City's Lower East Side. She was reared by a maternal aunt, Alice Payne, in Baltimore, Maryla...