Joyce Castle (born Lillian Joyce Malicky, on January 17, 1939, in Beaumont, Texas) is an American mezzo-soprano who has had an active opera career for the last four decades.
 She earned degrees in music from The University of Kansas and the Eastman School of Music.
 She made her professional opera debut in 1970 at the San Francisco Opera as Siebel in Charles Gounod's "Faust".
 In 1984 she became the first woman to portray Mrs. Lovett in an operatic staged production of at the Houston Grand Opera.
 She spent seven years performing with opera companies in France during the 1970s, after which her career has mainly been spent performing with opera companies throughout the United States.
 She has sung leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera for nine seasons and has also appeared frequently at the New York City Opera.
 Her career was recently profiled in the June 2010 issue of "Opera News".
 She currently teaches on the voice faculty of the University of Kansas.
Risë Stevens ( ; June 11, 1913 – March 20, 2013) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano.
 Beginning in 1938, she sang for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for more than two decades during the 1940s and 1950s.
 She was most noted for her portrayals of the central character in "Carmen" by Georges Bizet.
Eunice Alberts (1927–2012) was an American contralto who had an active career as a concert soloist and opera singer during the 1950s through the 1980s.
 She began her career as a concert soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the young age of 19 and quickly became a lauded oratorio singer during the late 1940s and the early 1950s.
 She began her opera career with the New York City Opera in 1951.
 She went on to have a successful opera career with companies throughout the United States, ultimately forging a strong partnership with Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston that lasted from 1961 to 1988.
 She notably sang in a number of United States premieres in Boston and appeared in a few world premieres in New York City.
 Although Alberts made a number of impressive achievements in the field of opera, her legacy remains in the numerous appearances and recordings she made with major symphony orchestras in the United States.
 She was particularly successful as a soloist in the great choral works of J.S. Bach, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
The Dybbuk is an opera in three acts by composer David Tamkin.
 The work uses an English libretto by Alex Tamkin, the composer's brother, which is based on S. Ansky’s Yiddish play of the same name.
 Composed in 1933, the work was not premiered until October 4, 1951 when it was mounted by the New York City Opera through the efforts of Laszlo Halasz.
 Prior to the premiere, excerpts from the work had been given in concert, both in Portland, Oregon (where Alex Tamkin lived) and in New York City.
 The opera was originally supposed to premiere at the New York City Opera in 1950 but was postponed for financial reasons.
James Shomate (Bakersfield, CA, November 13, 1914—Manhattan, October 13, 2001) was an American pianist and voice teacher.
 He was particularly known for his work as an accompanist; notably playing in concerts and recitals for famous singers like Pierre Bernac, Richard Bonelli, Brenda Lewis, Anna Moffo, Lily Pons, Yvonne Printemps, Elisabeth Söderström, Gérard Souzay, Risë Stevens, and Jennie Tourel among others.
 For many years he served as a member of the voice faculty at the University of Bridgeport.
Elaine Bonazzi (born 1936, Endicott, New York) is an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international career from the 1950s through the 1990s.
 A singer with an unusually broad repertoire that encompassed both classical and contemporary works, she notably created roles in the world premieres of operas by composers Dominick Argento, David Carlson, Carlisle Floyd, Gian Carlo Menotti, Thomas Pasatieri, and Ned Rorem.
 In the United States she was particularly active with the New York City Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, and the Washington National Opera.
The Shoshana Foundation is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1986 upon the death of Richard F. Gold who was a long time administrator at both the New York City Opera and Chamber Opera Theater of New York.
 The foundation's work focuses on assisting promising opera singers at the start of their careers by providing The Richard F. Gold Career Grant to young singers nominated by their music school and opera apprenticeship program.
 Music schools currently involved in the scholarship program include the Juilliard School Opera Center, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Mannes College of Music among others.
 Opera apprenticeship programs include the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, and the Wolf Trap Opera Company.
 Winners are asked to give at least one charity performance in the year following their award, the expenses of which are met by the foundation.
Frances Lillian Bible (January 26, 1919 – January 29, 2001) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had a thirty-year-long career at the New York City Opera between 1948 and 1978.
 She also made a fair number of opera appearances with other companies throughout the United States, but only made a limited number of appearances abroad.
 Martin Bernheimer wrote in "Opera News" that, "Frances Bible was cheated by destiny.
 She never quite achieved the international recognition she deserved.
 Bible had it all—a mellow, wide-ranging mezzo-soprano, an attractive stage presence, genuine theatrical flair, a probing mind and a technique that allowed her to sing bel-canto filigree one night, Verdian drama the next.
 She was one of the rare American singers who savor the English language.
 She understood the value of economy, never stooping to easy effects.
 Perhaps she was too versatile, too tasteful and — dare one say it?
 — too intelligent for her own good."
Glenys Rae Fowles AM (born 4 November 1941; some sources say 1946) is an Australian operatic soprano who sang with Opera Australia and its predecessors for many years.
 She also sang at Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, and for the New York City Opera, San Diego Opera, and Scottish Opera.
 She also appeared at the BBC Proms and with the New York Philharmonic.
 Her recording with Heather Begg of the "Flower Duet" from Delibes's "Lakmé" has become famous.
Carry Nation is an opera in a prologue and 2 acts by composer Douglas Moore which is based on the life of temperance activist Carrie Nation, whose sometimes spelled her first name "Carry".
 The work uses an English-language libretto by W. N. Jayme.
 The opera was commissioned by the University of Kansas in commemoration of the school's 100th anniversary.
 The premiere performance was given at KU's Murphy Hall on March 28, 1966 with a cast headlined by four professional opera singers brought in for the event, and the supporting cast supplied by KU's music and theatre students.
 Lewin Goff staged the production and Robert Baustian conducted.
 The opera was subsequently given its first professional production at the San Francisco Opera in June 1966 under the baton of Herbert Grossman.
 The New York City Opera mounted the first New York production in March 1968 and released a recording of the work in 1969.
 All three of these initial stagings and the recording starred mezzo-soprano Beverly Wolff in the title role.

Question: James Shomate has accompanied the mezzo-soprano who sang for which New York City opera?
Answer: Metropolitan Opera