Todd Duncan was a renowned American baritone opera singer and actor. In 1933, he debuted in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria at the Mecca Temple in New York with the Aeolian Opera, a black opera company. Duncan was born in 1903 in Danville, Kentucky, to John and Lettie Duncan. His father was a garage owner and his […]
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