PLATO BROADLEY, DESSERIA

PLATO BROADLEY, DESSERIA. Concert singer (fl. late nineteenth century; 28 January 1907 in Genesee, Idaho). Little is known of her career except that she was a leading singer during the 1890s. She first attracted attention as a prima donna mezzo-soprano in Signor A. Farini's Grand Creole and Colored Opera and Concert Company in 1891, when she sang the role of Azucena in Farini's production of Verdi's Il Trovatore at the Union Square Theater in New York. In 1893...