The Juilliard School graduate, known for the dramatic intensity of her performances, enjoyed a career spanning four decades at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. As part of a pioneering generation of black opera singers, Verrett overcame racial prejudice in the predominantly white, Eurocentric opera world. She performed title roles in Puccini’s Tosca (opposite Luciano Pavarotti), Bellini’s Norma and Verdi’s Aida.
Vale Ara Vartoukian, renowned piano technician and philanthropist
The classical music community pays tribute to a man "who always put the artist and their art first".
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