James Shomate was particularly known for his work for which American operatic mezzo-soprano born June 11, 1913?
Risë Stevens Risë Stevens ( ; June 11, 1913 – March 20, 2013) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano. Beginning in 1938, she sang for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for more than two decades during the 1940s and 1950s. She was most noted for her portrayals of the central character in "Carmen" by Georges Bizet.
Muriel Costa-Greenspon Muriel Costa-Greenspon (December 1, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan – December 26, 2005 in New York City) was an American mezzo-soprano who had a lengthy career at the New York City Opera between 1963-1993. She portrayed a gallery of character roles that extended from twentieth-century works by Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Lee Hoiby, Arthur Honegger, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Douglas Moore, to the contralto heroines of Gilbert and Sullivan, and comic scene-stealers by Puccini, Mozart, and Donizetti.