Tag Archives: Grace Bumbry

A big-band head currently recording over the Interplay jazz label.

Being a youth Grace Melzia Ann Bumbry sang in cathedral choirs. In 1955 she got into Northwestern School, where she examined tone of voice with Lotte Lehman, and moved with her towards the Music Academy from the Western world in Santa Barbara, California. In 1958 she was joint champion from …

Just 2 yrs after graduating from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, soprano Marina Rebeka gave a breakout performance that quickly resulted in engagements on lots of the world’s best-known opera stages. Rebeka started her music research in her indigenous Latvia before carrying on in Rome, where she finished her formal …