| LC control no. | nr 97000226 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Evanti, Lillian, 1890-1967 |
| Variant(s) | Evans, Lillian, 1890-1967 Tibbs, Lillian Evans, 1890-1967 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1890-08-12 |
| Death date | 1967-12-07 |
| Place of birth | Washington (D.C.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | Howard University National Negro Opera Company (U.S.) Opera House (Nice, France) Columbia Music Bureau Evanti Chorale |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Music teachers |
| Found in | Speak to Him Thou, 1943: caption (Lillian Evanti) Black women in Amer., 1993 (Evanti, Lillian Evans; b. 1890; d. 1967; born Lillian Evans; married to Roy Tibbs) 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) 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 LakmeĢ (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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