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Estes performing in August 2019.
Simon Estes (born March 2, 1938) is an operatic bass-baritone of African-American descent who had a major international opera career beginning in the 1960s. He has sung at most of the world's major opera houses as well as in front of presidents, popes and internationally renowned figures and celebrities including Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Boris Yeltsin, Yasser Arafat, Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. Notably, he was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve widespread success and is viewed as part of a group of performers who were instrumental in helping to break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the opera world.
racial prejudice in the opera world. Estes was born in Centerville, Iowa, the son of Ruth Jeter Estes and SimonEstes. His father was a coal-miner and his...
the NBC drama American Dreams. Estes was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he currently resides. Estes' break-out movie role was Seaman...
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broadcast performance starred SimonEstes and Roberta Alexander. In 1986 Bumbry was heard with Robert Mosley as Porgy. In 1990, Estes and Leona Mitchell sang...
with SimonEstes, a world-renowned opera star who also served as a distinguished professor and artist-in-residence at Wartburg College. Dr. Estes joined...
Hub Spot. Also along the Riverwalk is the Brenton Skating Plaza, the SimonEstes Amphitheater, a dog park and a children's park. Located east of the Des...
Peters, Richard Tucker, Renata Scotto, Cornell MacNeil, Samuel Ramey, SimonEstes, and Jerry Hadley among many others. In addition to staged operas, the...
for Buxton (2011), documentary produced by Iowa Public TV, narrated by SimonEstes (full program online) "National Register Information System". National...
Chorus Philharmonia Orchestra Lynne Dawson Jard van Nes Keith Lewis SimonEstes SONY 1989 (1989) Ton Koopman Choir of the Dutch Bach Association Amsterdam...
artist. He attended Juilliard, where he studied with noted bass-baritone SimonEstes. As the female character Shequida, he has been the USA Network's spokesperson...
Boleyn in Henry VII by C.Saint-Saens (sang with Montserrat Caballe and SimonEstes, Grand Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain); Desdemona in Otello (sang...
performances from (in order) John Denver, Melissa Manchester, Clamma Dale with SimonEstes, Joel Grey, Whitney Houston, Johnny Cash, James Whitmore, and Barry Manilow...
renowned opera and concert singers George Shirley, William Warfield, SimonEstes, Benjamin Matthews, and Jubilant Sykes. Equally at home with standard...
Tannhäuser, became an important star in lyric soprano roles. Bass-baritone SimonEstes began a prominent Met career with his 1982 debut as Hermann, also in...
United States Senator for Iowa Jane Espenson, TV producer and writer SimonEstes, opera singer Linda Evans, political activist Frank F. Everest, general...
(1970/1984), Agnes Baltsa (1971/1992), and Edita Gruberová (1977/2008) 1980s: SimonEstes (1981/1997), Matti Salminen (1981/2004), Ewa Podleś (1981/2007), Martti...
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