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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 28 > Betty Allen ‘sang with a glory of sound that would honor any performance’

Betty Allen ‘sang with a glory of sound that would honor any performance’

By Emily Langer / The Bulletin
June 28, 2009

WASHINGTON — Betty Allen, one of the first African-American singers to reach prominence on the international opera stage, died June 22 at a hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. She was 82 and had complications from kidney disease.

If contralto Marian Anderson in the 1930s and 1940s represented....

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