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Life & fun · January 17, 2017

Between the Liner Notes - ep 17 - The Colored American Opera Company

The story of the first American opera company ever

Between the Liner Notes - ep 17 - The Colored American Opera Company launched on January 17, 2017 with 53 votes, #1,421 of 3,670 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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The Colored American Opera Company was born at St. Augustine’s Catholic Church — the first all-black church in the nation’s capitol — where an Italian priest invited a white Spanish American veteran of the U.S. Marine Band, and teacher of march legend John Philip Sousa, to teach a French style of Opéra Bouffe to an African American choir. In doing so, in 1873, just a decade after President Lincoln

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