| Gretha Boston |
| Mezzo-Soprano |
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I'm Going to do What the Spirit Says
It
Aint Nothin' But the Blues
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| Gretha Denise Boston is
the 1995 Tony Award winner for Best Featured Actress In a Musical
(Showboat) and Theater World Award for Outstanding Debut Artist.
She is also a Tony Award and Drama Desk Nominee for Best Featured
Actress in a Musical and nominee for the Helen Hayes Award for Best
Actress for the 2000–01 season at the Kennedy Center in Washington,
D.C. (It Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues). In 2002, she portrayed the role of Bloody Mary in the national tour of South Pacific, starring Robert Goulet. In 2003, she performed at the Charlotte Rep Theater in the musical Let Me Sing and returned to Charlotte that same year to portray the role of Lola in the play Jar the Floor. Ms. Boston made her Carnegie Hall debut May 1991 in Mozart’s Coronation Mass, and returned that same year for performances in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Her operatic roles include Amneris in Aida, Maddelena in Rigoletto with New York Grand Opera, and Maria in Porgy and Bess with the Buffalo Philharmonic. Choral works include Messiah, Elijah, and Verdi’s Requiem (New York Grand Opera) Ms. Boston’s television highlights include PBS’s “An Enchanted Evening–A Salute to Oscar Hammerstein” as well as appearances on David Letterman, Rosie O’Donnel, The Today Show, Hope and Faith, Law and Order, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Currently, she is developing a work based on the life of the famous contralto Marian Anderson. She is performing the role of Velma Crowns: Portaits of Black Women in Church Hats by Regina Taylor at Studio Arena in Buffalo, New York, Geva Theater in Rochester, New York, and Arena Stage in Washington, DC. She will also be performing the role of Maria in Porgy and Bess with Opera Delaware in May and the Atlanta Opera this fall. A native of Arkansas, Ms. Boston was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame in 1997. 3/18/05 |