Ruth Stewart (actress)
Ruth Stewart (October 20, 1916 - April 9, 2018) was an American operatic soprano. Career Ruth C. Stewart, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, graduated from Florida A & M University, Tallahassee in 1937. After teaching in public school in Kingsland, Georgia, she won a teaching fellowship to study at Hampton Institute, Virginia, where she received her master's degree in 1943. In the fall of 1943, she went to New York City to continue the study of voice at Teachers College, Columbus University. While in New York, she studied voice with the late Harry Robert Wilson, Rosalie Miller and Maestro Solon Alberti. She was a soloist at the Grace Congregational Church, regularly performed with the Cosmopolitan Little Symphony conductor Everett Lee, and had a lead role as Mamaloi the Voodoo Priestess in the world premiere of William Grant Still's ''Troubled Island'' on March 31, 1949 at the City Opera Company, New York City. From 1945 to 1951, she performed extensively throughout the United ...
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