Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Akawana mukurumbira wepasi rose paakasarudzwa naWieland Wagner (muzukuru waRichard Wagner) saVenus mu "Tannhäuser" kuBayreuth muna 1961, aine makore makumi maviri nemana, muimbi wekutanga mutema kuoneka ipapo, izvo zvakamupa zita rekuti "Black Venus". Mutambi wacho akabatanidzawo Victoria de los Angeles saElisabeth naWolfgang Windgassen saTannhäuser. Vanhu vaienda kunotamba opera vaiva nehasha nepfungwa yacho, asi kuita kwaBumbry kwakanga kuchikurudzira zvokuti pakapera mutambo wacho akanga akunda vateereri uye vakaombera maoko kwemaminitsi 30, zvichida kurira kwemakumi mana nemaviri. Kutsamwa kwakatevera mumapepanhau kwakaita kuti Bumbry ave "chikonzero chakakurumbira" munyika yose. Akazokokwa naJacqueline Kennedy kuti aimbire kuWhite House. (Akadzokera kuWhite House muna 1981, achiimba pakugadzwa kwaRonald Reagan
.) Achitanga basa rake rokutamba pamutambo mukuru kudaro, akawana chiitiko chisingawanzoitiki chokusazombodzokera kumabasa maduku kana kuti comprimario.