Black Fact =1941 (Nov. 12) – Opera singer, Madame Lillian Evanti, founds the National Negro Opera Company. Lillian (Evans) Evanti, one of the first African American women to become an internationally prominent opera performer, was born in Washington D.C. in 1891. … Her career progressed slowly until she moved to France in 1925 where she became the first African American to sing with a European opera company. #TheRaydioTwins
