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Camilla Williams, pioneer in opera, education; at 92

By Ken Kusmer

 |  Associated Press  

  January 31, 2012

Camilla Williams, believed to be the first African-American woman to appear with a major US opera company, has died. She was 92. Williams’s debut with the New York City Opera on May 15, 1946, was thought to make her the first African-American woman to appear with a major US opera company and came nearly nine years before Marian Anderson became the first African-American singer to appear at New York’s more prestigious Metropolitan Opera.

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