Image by ArtTower on Pixabay · Pixabay License
Abbie Mitchell
Sign in to saveAlso known as Abriea Mitchell Cook
American soprano opera singer (1884–1960)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Hollow Is a Home
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 65
- Total plays
- 162
Abriea "Abbie" Mitchell (25 September 1884 – 16 March 1960), also billed as Abbey Mitchell, was an American soprano opera singer who sang the role of "Clara" in the premier production of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in 1935. Mitchell was the daughter of an African-American mother and a Jewish-German father from New York City's Lower East Side. She was reared by a maternal aunt, Alice Payne, in Baltimore, Maryland, where she attended a convent school. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Abbie
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Mitchell
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- New York City
- Spouse
- Will Marion Cook
- Occupation
- stage actor
- Employer
- Tuskegee University
- Movement
- Harlem Renaissance
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Maud Cuney Hare-223-Abbie Mitchell.jpg
- Voice type
- soprano
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1884-09-25
- date of death
- 1960-03-16
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- Commons category
- Abbie Mitchell
- birth name
- Abriea Mitchell
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0