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The answer is Marian Anderson. She made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera Company on January 7, 1955 in as Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera , but she was not the first African American to sing with a major opera company. Camilla Ella Williams was the 1st African American singer with the New York City Opera Company. She debut as Coi-Coi-San in Puccini's Madame Butterfly on May 15, 1946.

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