Clarey, Cynthia

Clarey, Cynthia, black American mezzo-soprano; b. Smithfield, Va., April 25, 1949. She studied at Howard Univ. in Washington, D.C. (B.Mus.) and at the Juilliard School of Music in N.Y. (postgraduate diploma). She began her career with the Tri-Cities Opera Co. in Binghamton, N.Y. In 1977 she appeared in Musgrave's The Voice of Ariadne at the N.Y.C. Opera, and then in the U.S. premiere of Tippett's The Ice Break in Boston in 1979. She made her British debut as Monteverdi's Octavia at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1984, returning there in 1986 as …