WHITE, WILLARD WENTWORTH. Opera singer ( in Jamaica, West Indies). He obtained his musical education at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he studied with Beverley Johnson and Giorgio Tozzi . He made his operatic debut (baritone) as Colline in Puccini's La Boheme with the New York City Opera Company . In 1975 he attracted wide attention for his role of Ned in Scott Joplin's Treemonisha with the Houston [Texas] Opera Company.