It was the opera company director on the phone.

电话是那边的剧院负责人打来的。

She then started singing with traveling opera companies performing the works of such composers as Gilbert and Sullivan.

之后，她开始在巡回演出的歌剧公司演唱吉尔伯特和沙利文等作曲家的作品。

This will be the first time the opera company has canceled an entire season of shows in its nearly 140-year history.

这是大都会歌剧院将近140年历史上首次取消一整个季度的演出。

So this gives you a sense of hey, this is really popular; this is what opera companies are really working with.

这能让你体会到它有多流行并且那些歌剧院也确实致力于它。

Marian Anderson loved opera. At that time, however, black singers were not permitted in white opera companies in the United States.

玛丽安·安德森热爱歌剧。虽然在当时的美国，黑人歌手不允许进入白人的歌剧公司。

A few days later, Matt received an email from the opera company.

几天后，马特收到了一封来自歌剧公司的电子邮件。

As for Dede, well, she'd barely spoken to him since he'd joined the opera company.

至于黛黛，嗯，自从他加入歌剧团以来，她几乎没有和他说过话。

Todd Duncan is on the stage. He had just become the first African American man to sing with this important American opera company.

托德·邓肯在台上演出。他是首位在这个重要的歌剧院演出的非裔美国人。

Unfortunately a severe blizzard delayed the arrival of the opera company in Chicago until the very moment when the program was scheduled to begin.

不幸的是，凛冽的暴风雪延缓了乐队抵达芝加哥的时间，直到项目计划开始时才抵达。

It's too hard." " You get to sing with a major opera company, and you want to quit just because it's hard?

太难了。” “你在一家大型歌剧团唱歌，你就因为难而想退出？

His fame as Porgy helped him get the part in Pagliacci with the New York City Opera Company. He also sang other parts with the opera company.

他扮演的波吉的名声帮助他在纽约歌剧院获得了《丑角》中的角色。他还在纽约歌剧院演唱了其他部分。

A philosophical guy who could be both playful and ponderous, Raskin had studied computer science, taught music and visual arts, conducted a chamber opera company, and organized guerrilla theater.

拉斯金是个很有哲学家范儿的人，有时幽默顽皮，有时又呆板沉闷，他学习过计算机科学，教过音乐和视觉艺术，管理过一家室内歌剧院，还组织过街头剧场。