Jeff McMillan, the Met's archivist, confirmed for the paper there had been no policy preventing blacks from performing at the Met, but that Phillips was indeed the first.
Phillips, born in St. Louis, also made concert appearances in Austria and West Germany for the State Department after World War II, made her Town Hall debut in 1953, and was in a 1954 City Center production of Show Boat.
Composer John Adams and theatre director Lileana Blain-Cruz retells the story of the Nativity, through the lens of Latin America.
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Lileana Blain-Cruz directs the new production, opening April 23.
The Cuban-born composer is this season's Debs Composer's Chair.
The cast is led by Bryonha Marie and Nathan Gunn, with Tony winner Ted Sperling at the baton.
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