WILLIAMS, CAMILLA

WILLIAMS, CAMILLA. Opera singer (1922 in Danville, Virginia). She obtained her musical education at Virginia State College (B.S., 1941) and later studied in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with Marian Szekely-Freschl and in New York with Rose Dirman, Sergius Kagen , and Cesare Sodero, among others. She taught in an elementary school in Danville, Virginia, before beginning her career in concert/opera music. In 1943 she won a Marian Anderson Award. The next year she won first...