Edward Matthews (baritone)
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Edward Matthews (baritone)
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Edward Matthews was a pioneering African-American baritone opera singer. Matthews was born in Ossining, New York. In 1934, he created the role of Ignatius of Loyola in Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts, which he reprised in the 1952 revival of the opera – his last appearance on Broadway. In 1935, he created his most famous role, Jake the fisherman, in the original 1935 production of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Here, Matthews introduced the song "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing". He re
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American opera singer
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