Studio portrait in profile Hattie Hopkins-Moore. Hattie Hopkins was a mezzo-soprano soloist. Her performances are reported in the press in the early 1900s. She was a soprano in the 1902 production of In Dahomey at the Grand Opera House in Brooklyn, New York. The 1904, volume 24, issue of Musical News reports that she was taken to Paris, with Abbie Mitchell, to study voice. In 1904 she toured in Europe with a group called the Dahomey Quartet; that year, in the Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, Monroe, New York) she is also reported as singing the soprano role in a production called The Smart Set. In 1909 she performed in Mr. Lode of Koal, as reported in the New York Dramatic Mirror, vol. 63. She was also known as Hattie Hopkins-Moore. she married Noah D. Thompson in New York on January 15, 1929. Thompson is identified as a magazine manager in the 1930 Census. Written on back of the original photo: "Mrs. Noah D. Thompson of New York City. As Hattie Hopkins of Jacksonville, Florida. Mrs. Thompson was wall known as a soprano soloist and traveled extensively in the U.S. and Foreign countries." Credit: So-Calif library for social studies & research; part of the Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Photograph Collection.
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uclalsc_1889_b22_f16_002a.tif ark:/21198/z1b86s84
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African American singers African American actresses Hopkins, Hattie, b. 1884 or 85
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