Hyers Sisters

Hyers Sisters
Anna Madah Hyers
Emma Louise Hyers
Anna Madah Hyers dressed as "Urlina" in the opera Urlina the African Princess (1879)
Background information
GenresBlack musical theater.
Years active1867–1920s

The Hyers Sisters, Anna Madah (ca. 1855 – 1929) and Emma Louise (ca. 1857 – 1901), were singers and pioneers of black musical theater. With Joseph Bradford and Pauline Hopkins, the Hyers Sisters produced the "first full-fledged musical plays... in which African Americans themselves comment on the plight of the slaves and the relief of Emancipation without the disguises of minstrel comedy." Their first play was Out of Bondage (also known as Out of the Wilderness).

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