URI(s)
Variants
- Evans, Lillian, 1890-1967
- Tibbs, Lillian Evans, 1890-1967
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1890-08-12
Death Date
- 1967-12-07
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Howard University
- Organization: National Negro Opera Company (U.S.)
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Opera House (Nice, France)
- Organization: Columbia Music Bureau
- Organization: Evanti Chorale
Birth Place
- Washington (D.C.)
Occupation
(naf) Music teachers
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Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Speak to Him Thou, 1943:caption (Lillian Evanti)
- found: Black women in Amer., 1993(Evanti, Lillian Evans; b. 1890; d. 1967; born Lillian Evans; married to Roy Tibbs)
- found: Hixon, D.L. Women in music, 1993(Evanti, Lillian (Lillian Evans Tibbs); b. Aug. 12, 1890, Wash., D.C. ; d. Dec. 7, 1967, Wash., D.C.; soprano and composer)
- found: African American National Biography, accessed January 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Evanti, Lillian Evans; Annie Wilson Lillian Evans; Madame Evanti; opera singer, music educator; born 12 August 1890 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; graduated from Howard University (1917); audition at the Nice Opera House in Nice, France, made her opera debut in the title role in Delibes's Lakmé (1925); most remembered for her performance in the role of Violetta in Verdi's La Traviatawith the National Negro Opera Company (NNOC) at the Watergate in Washington; also had a career as a songwriter; a goodwill ambassador to Argentina and Brazil for the U.S. State Department; founded her own music publishing house, Columbia Music Bureau; organized twenty black women singers in the District of Columbia into the Evanti Chorale; died 07 December 1967 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
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Change Notes
- 1997-01-03: new
- 2015-12-12: revised
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