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Elvira Green talks to students at Melvin C Swann Jr. Middle School.
Elvira Green has had a prolific career as an opera singer. She went from the choir room of her Greensboro church to the hall of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She was one of the few African-American women to break into a permanent spot at the Met during the 1970s as a mezzo-soprano. She performed her signature role as Maria in the opera "Porgy and Bess."
Photographed, Wednesday, January 16, 2019, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
Elvira Green has had a prolific career as an opera singer. She went from the choir room of her Greensboro church to the hall of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She was one of the few African-American women to break into a permanent spot at the Met during the 1970s as a mezzo-soprano. She performed her signature role as Maria in the opera "Porgy and Bess."
Photographed, Wednesday, January 16, 2019, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
