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She was thus \u201can interesting bridge\u201d between Ms. Anderson and the newer generation of Black opera singers, said Ms. Andr\u00e9, who has written about Black opera singers, and who noted that Ms. Tynes, her neglect notwithstanding, had an \u201cincredible\u201d voice. Ms. Andr\u00e9 suggested that Ms. Tynes\u2019s success in Europe was a testimony to her singular talent.<\/p>\n
Her one major recital on disk, a blistering collection of arias by Verdi and Richard Strauss, was released by the Qualiton label in Hungary in 1962. In a 2021 episode of the podcast \u201cCounter Melody,\u201d<\/a> that was devoted to her, the American singer Daniel Gundlach noted that Ms. Tynes reached the sulfurous high C of the Aida aria \u201cO Patria Mia\u201d with ease. A recording of Pergolesi\u2019s \u201cStabat Mater\u201d earned a favorable review in 1972 in Gramophone<\/a> magazine, where she was praised for her \u201ccreamy-voiced soprano\u201d though the publication said she \u201csounds uneasy in the high notes\u201d and \u201cis not always exact in pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n But her major recordings, though hardly widely known, have earned unstinted praise from connoisseurs. In an email, Peter Clark, the former archivist at the Metropolitan Opera, called them \u201cimpressive singing by any standard. Her expressivity and dramatic involvement is exciting to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n In the 1960s and \u201970s, she sang for seven seasons with the State Opera in Vienna, for eight seasons with opera companies in Prague and Budapest, and in Barcelona for another four, according to Mr. Roberts and the singer Kevin Thompson<\/a>, a friend of Ms. Tynes\u2019s. \u201cOnce she was invited to perform in Europe, her skill and recognition grew,\u201d Mr. Roberts said.<\/p>\n She sang in \u201cNorma,\u201d \u201cTosca\u201d and \u201cCarmen\u201d and played Lady Macbeth in Verdi, as well as Leonora in \u201cLa Forza del Destino,\u201d among other roles. In Hungary and Czechoslovakia, she was always \u201cgreeted quite warmly,\u201d Mr. Roberts recalled. The Budapest weekly Film Szinhaz Muzsika (Film Theater Music) commented about her Aida performances, saying, \u201cShe is a rare, singular phenomenon on the operatic stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n