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Morris Robinson

1969–

United States

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Morris DeRhon Robinson (born March 18, 1969) is an American bass opera singer and former All-American college football player who has performed both with the Metropolitan Opera and at Carnegie Hall in New York City, at the Seattle Opera, at La Scala in Milan, Italy, at the Sydney Opera House in Australia, and in many other opera houses throughout the United States and internationally. He has also served as an artistic advisor to the Cincinnati Opera, artist-in-residence for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and Resident Artist at Harvard University. He was the first African-American artist to sign with a major classical record label.

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