White backlash rejected opera singer in early role at the University of Texas in 1957

During her first year on campus, Conrad was chosen to play Dido, the queen of Carthage, opposite a white student as her lover in a production of the Baroque composer Henry Purcell's opera “Dido and Aeneas.”

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