We bid farewell today to a glorious voice. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MACBETH: ACT I: CORO DI STREGHE - STRETTA DELL'INTRODUZIONE - 'S'ALLONTANARONO!'") GRACE BUMBRY: (Singing in Italian). PFEIFFER: Grace ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – In honor of Black History Month, ...

Grace Bumbry, 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 stages, has died. She ...

Grace Bumbry, the trailblazer opera diva who became the first Black singer to perform at the prestigious Bayreuth Festival in Germany, has died. She was 86. Bumbry, a 2009 Kennedy Center honoree, died ...

Grace Bumbry has died. She had one of the most illustrious operatic careers of the 20th century. She was also the first Black singer to perform at the Paris Opera and the Bayreuth Festival in Germany.

ST. LOUIS – In honor of Black History Month, St. Louis remembers the opera singer Grace Bumbry, an American opera singer considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation. She was born on ...

PFEIFFER: Grace Bumbry has died at age 86. She was part of the first generation of Black female opera stars following Marian Anderson, along with Leontyne Price and Jessye Norman. Bumbry was known for ...