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Arts | OPERA REVIEW. OPERA REVIEW; A Blind Pop Tenor Takes On the Operatic Stage. There were crestfallen faces throughout the audience at the Detroit Opera House on Friday night as Andrea Bocelli made his North American opera debut in the title role of Massenet's ''Werther'' with the Michigan Opera Theater.
Author Rosalyn Story wrote AND SO I SING: AFRICAN AMERICAN DIVAS OF OPERA AND CONCERT, the first study of black female opera singers, which was published in 1990 and which inspired the PBS documentary AIDA'S BROTHERS AND SISTERS: BLACK VOICES IN OPERA.