Louisa Melvin Delos Mars was one of the first black women to graduate from the New England Conservatory of Music, and the first black woman to have an opera produced. The opera, 'Leoni, the Gypsy Queen,' was performed in Providence, Rhode Island in 1889. She would also perform in her own operettas. She composed and […]
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