Bumbry

British  

/ ˈbʌmbrɪ /

noun

1. Grace . born 1937, US soprano and mezzo-soprano

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Example Sentences

This year brought Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” with Lupita Nyong’o and her brother Junior as twins, along with Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage and Jesse Tyler Ferguson; a new “Nutcracker” from the English National Ballet, and a documentary on pioneering Black opera singer Grace Bumbry.

From Los Angeles Times

Grace Bumbry, 86, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany’s Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top operatic stages, died May 7 in Vienna after suffering a stroke.

From Seattle Times

Lives Lived: Grace Bumbry’s vocal range and transcendent stage presence made her a towering figure in opera and one of its first, and biggest, Black stars.

From New York Times

Bumbry was born Jan. 4, 1937, in St. Louis.

From Seattle Times

Bumbry died Sunday at Evangelisches Krankenhaus, a hospital in Vienna, according to her publicist, David Lee Brewer.

From Seattle Times