Sentences with phrase «american opera singer»

It reminds me of the American opera singer who first had to get acclaim in Europe before being recognized at home.»

The beautiful voice of the gifted African American opera singer comes alive in this clear, concise, and lyrical biography.

Her unusual upbringing — a renowned English director for a father, an American opera singer for a mother, life in the countryside of Sussex, and a private girl's school — all provided her insight.

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The fourth season of «Downton Abbey,» which follows the lives of the family and servants living in an English stately house, will include newcomers Paul Giamatti as an American relation and opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa.

Meryl Streep stars as the famously terrible opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins, a twentieth - century American heiress who used her wealth to pursue her dream of professional singing despite being tone deaf.

In truth, he was the American - born son of a Russian father and Polish mother who trained as an opera singer.

Barnum did run a circus, he did purchase Scudder's American Museum in 1841, and he did accompany the opera singer Jenny Lind on her tour of the states.

American Idol this is not, but it is a look into the life of one of the worst opera singers to ever live, a woman who many believed had no right being on stage driven by her own confidence and the politeness of those closest to her.

Andrea Bocelli -(born September 22, 1958) opera singer Dr. Jacob Bolotin -(1888 - 1924) First blind doctor Ray Charles -(September 23, 1930 - June 10, 2004) American pianist and musician Jose Feliciano (born 1945) American singer Thomas Gore (December 10, 1870 - March 16, 1949) American senator Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) American author, activist, and lecturer David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) New York governor Marla Runyan (born January 4, 1969) marathon runner James Thurber (December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961) American cartoonist Erik Weihenmayer (born September 23, 1968) mountain climber Stevie Wonder (born May 13, 1950) American singer - songwriter Others who became visually impaired: W.C. Handy (1873 - 1958) Blues composer - went blind in middle age Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642) Astronomer Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) French painter Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) American president Harriet Tubman (c.1820 - March 10, 1913) American slave and slave freer

Her mother, Jane Lawrence Smith, was an opera singer and actor, and her father was the American minimalist sculptor, Tony Smith.

The daughter of the American actress and opera singer Jane Lawrence and the American architect and sculptor Tony Smith, she was born in Germany, where her mother had launched a career in opera.

Jane Lawrence Smith (February 3, 1915 — August 5, 2005), born Jane Brotherton, was an American actress and opera singer who was part of the New York art scene beginning in the 1950s.