Lawrence Tibbett
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Lawrence Mervil Tibbett was an American opera singer and recording artist who also performed as a film actor and radio personality. A baritone with large, deep, and dark-timbred voice. His dynamic ran
Tibbett in 1943
Tibbett in 1939
Lobby card for 1931 film The Prodigal with Esther Ralston
The Emperor Jones (opera)
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The Emperor Jones is an opera in two acts with a prologue and interlude composed by Louis Gruenberg to an English-language libretto adapted by the composer from Eugene O'Neill's 1920 play, The Emperor
Lawrence Tibbett
…and a powerful Tonio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. In addition, Tibbett created leading roles in a number of American operas, including Louis Gruenberg's The Emperor Jones, based on Eugene O'Neill's play. (He sang this in blackface; the character of Brutus Jones is an African-American). He starred in Howard Hanson's Merry…
Eugene O'Neill, after whose play the composer wrote the libretto
The Metropolitan Opera House on 39th St, where The Emperor Jones premiered on January 7, 1933
Lawrence Tibbett who created the title role of The Emperor Jones