Contralto <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson" id="mw3g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Marian Anderson">Marian Anderson</a> becomes the first person of color to perform at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Opera" id="mw3w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Metropolitan Opera">Metropolitan Opera</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi" id="mw4A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Giuseppe Verdi">Giuseppe Verdi</a>'s <i id="mw4Q"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_ballo_in_maschera" id="mw4g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Un ballo in maschera">Un ballo in maschera</a></i>.<sup about="#mwt146" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-27"}}' id="cite_ref-27" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_7#cite_note-27" id="mw4w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 27;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw5A">[27]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-27"><cite about="#mwt143" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMetropolitan_Opera_(New_York,_N.Y.)1971"><a href="./Metropolitan_Opera" id="mwCIo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Metropolitan Opera">Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)</a> (1971). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JvUXAQAAIAAJ" id="mwCIs" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCIw">What did they sing at the Met?</i></a>. Wayner Publications. p.<span id="mwCI0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>ii.</cite><span about="#mwt143" class="Z3988" id="mwCI4" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=What+did+they+sing+at+the+Met%3F&amp;rft.pages=ii&amp;rft.pub=Wayner+Publications&amp;rft.date=1971&amp;rft.au=Metropolitan+Opera+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DJvUXAQAAIAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+7"></span></span>