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A nephew is Durek Verrett. Death. Verrett died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, aged 79, on November 5, 2010, from heart failure following an undisclosed illness.
Shirley Verrett, the vocally lustrous and dramatically compelling American opera singer who began as a mezzo-soprano and went on to sing soprano roles to international acclaim, died Friday morning...
7. Nov. 2010 · American soprano Shirley Verrett, one of the top opera singers of the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 79.
7. Nov. 2010 · Verrett had been suffering from heart trouble prior to her death on Friday in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Verrett is survived by Lou LoMonaco, her husband of 47 years, and their adopted daughter.
8. Nov. 2010 · Late on Friday, Nov. 6th, it was announced that opera singer Shirley Verrett had died at age 79. The video above shows the singer at her peak, in a 1971 BBC telecast of Samson and Delilah by...
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11. Nov. 2010 · Verrett, who has died aged 79, was championed early on by the conductor Leopold Stokowski, who defied racist attitudes to black singers by showcasing her with the Philadelphia Orchestra and elsewhere. She herself refused to sing to segregated audiences in the deep American south.
7. Nov. 2010 · Shirley Verrett, an acclaimed American mezzo-soprano and soprano praised for her blazing intensity during a career that spanned four decades, died Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich. She was 79.
