Nathalie Stutzmann
In 2023 Nathalie Stutzmann made history by becoming the first woman to direct the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the second woman to lead a major American orchestra, after MacArthur Fellow Marin Alsop.
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Lila Pauline Robeson
International opera star and the first Cleveland-born artist to sing with the Metropolitan Opera (1912-1922) in New York.
Qi Shu Fang
Chinese opera performer
Deborah Cheetham
World-renowned Aboriginal Australian opera singer, composer, playwright and creator of Australia’s first Aboriginal opera.
Hua Wenyi
Internationally renowned kunqu (Chinese opera) singer
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield was the first African American opera singer who became popular in the United States and Europe.
Rosetta Pampanini
1900s Italian lyric soprano
Meta Seinemeyer
Berlin-born Meta Seinemeyer was a lyric-dramatic soprano with a voice whose rich qualities were captured on many recordings.
Margarete Matzenauer
Margarete Matzenauer, a contralto soprano, was perhaps the most outstanding example of her type of voice in the 1920s.
Maria Olszewska
Born in a Bavarian village, opera singer Maria Olszewska chose her stage name from the Munich phone book. ous.