Veronica Tyler

Biography

Veronica Tyler (March 4, 1937 – March 21, 2020) was an American soprano. Veronica Tyler was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended Frederick Douglass High School. One of the first African-Americans to attend the prestigious Peabody Institute after it opened to blacks in 1949, she and classmate Junetta Jones were still barred from the school cafeteria. She studied under Alice Duschak and graduated in 1960. She went on to study under Florence Page Kimball at the Juilliard School. Her New York debut was in 1961 with the American Opera Society in Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea. That same year she appeared in the first of three appearances on Leonard Bernstein's television show Young People's Concerts, singing "Hello, Hello" from Menotti's The Telephone and "Mimi's Farewell" from La Boheme. The next summer she appeared on the television talk show Tonight Starring Jack Parr.

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