Grace Bumbry

47 pieces since 2008 — in 12 roles, at 9 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.

47 pieces
12 roles
9 companies
19 years

1 piece as Eboli — stats above show all coverage for Grace Bumbry.

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Four saints in five acts

A quintessential theater man as well as a brilliant conductor, James Levine rightfully chose not only the five-act version of Don Carlo for this 1980 performance but begins the opera as Verdi had originally conceived it. The Woodcutters chorus and the episode in which Elisabetta gives her necklace to a destitute woman are pages essential to […]

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