- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Opera singer Denyce Graves was born on March 7, 1964 in Washington, D.C. where she attended the Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts. She studied at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory. Graves made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1995-96 season in the title role of Carmen. Graves became well-known to operatic audiences for her portrayals of the title roles in Carmen and Samson et Dalila. These roles brought Graves to the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, Royal Opera - Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, Opera National de Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago and countless other venues. In 1998, Graves received an honorary doctorate from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. She was named one of the Fifty Leaders of Tomorrow by Ebony magazine and was one of Glamour magazine's Women of the Year in 1997. In 2003, Graves was appointed cultural ambassador for the United States.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Denyce Graves
- Denyce Graves
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- OCLC
- 1003150399
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Denyce Graves.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
010000
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Angela Bassett, interviewer.
- Event
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2005 October 22.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Opera Singer.
- Added Author
Graves, Denyce, interviewee.
Bassett, Angela, interviewer.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.