Opera Singers & Vocalists Posters, Prints & Photographs, “H-I-J-K”
for the music, art, and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, theme decor for office or home.

Hatto
Rolland Hayes
Marilyn Horne

Kathleen Howard
Gundula Janowitz
Maria Jeritza

Jane Hatto
née Marguerite Jeanne Frere
1879-1958; France

Soprano Jane Hatto made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1899 as Brunehild in Reyer's Sigurd.

• Siegfried posters

Roland Hayes
b. 6-3-1887; near Curryville, GA
d. 1-1-1977; Boston, MA

Roland Hayes was a lyric tenor considered the first African Amercian male concert artist to receive international and home acclaim.

He was awarded the 1924 Spingarn Medal by the NAACP for outstanding achievement by an African American.

Marilyn Horne
b. 1-16-1934; Bradford, PA

Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne has been called “probably the greatest singer in the world” (Opera News, 1981).

Kathleen Howard
b. 7-27-1885; Canada (raised in Buffalo, NY)
d. 4-15-1956; Hollywood

Kathleen Howard was a mezzo-soprano opera singer, magazine editor, and movie character actress during the mid-1930s through the 1940s.

Memorable roles for Kathleen Howard include Zita in Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi at the Metropolitan Opera (1918) and as the nagging, shrewish wife of W.C. Fields in It's a Gift (1934).

• Confessions of an Opera Singer

Gundula Janowitz
b. 8-2-1937; Berlin, Germany

Gundula Janowitz is a renowned lyric sopranos of the 20th century, pre-eminent in the 1960s and 1970s.

Maria Jeritza
née Jedilickova
b. 10-6-1887; Brno, Czech.
d. 7-10-1982; New Jersey

Soprano Maria Jeritza, the “Moravian Thunderbolt”, was associated with the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.

• Lebendige Vergangenheit: Maria Jeritza, CD

Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones
b. 1-5-1868; Portsmouth, Virginia
d. 6-24-1933; Providence, RI

Opera soprano Sissieretta Jones was known as the “Black Patti” in reference to the Italian singer Adelina Patti. In addition to singing for four presidents (Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt) she sang for the British royal family, toured with the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and had great international success.

Her opera career in the US was stymied by racism so she formed the Black Patti Troubadours which toured the vaudeville circuit. She left performing in 1915 to care for her mother, and died penniless in 1933.

Ernst Kraus
b. 6-8-1863; Erlangen, Germany
d. 9-6-1941

Tenor Ernst Kraus distinguished himself with a dramatic German repertory.

• more Siegfried posters

Gabrielle Krauss
b. 3-24-1842; Austria
d. 1-6-1906

Gabrielle Krauss was an Austrian operatic soprano.