JONES, M. SISSIERETTA

JONES, M. SISSIERETTA (BLACK PATTI) (née MATILDA S. JOYNER). Concert singer (5 January 1869 in Portsmouth, Virginia; 24 June 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island). Her family moved to Providence, Rhode Island, about 1876 and there she began formal study of music. Later she attended the Providence Academy of Music, where she studied with Ada Lacombe. Some time during the 1880s she studied voice at the New England Conservatory and privately with Luisa Capianni and a Mme. Scongia of London, England...