Opera Singer. A soprano, she is remembered for her distinguished performances on both sides of the Atlantic as well as for her later long teaching career in her native Washington. Born Charlotte Wesley to an upper class family, she was raised in the District, took to music early, graduated from Washington's famed Dunbar High School in 1937, in 1941 earned a degree from Howard University where one of her instructors was baritone Todd Duncan, famed for his 1935 creation of the role of Porgy in Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess", and in 1943 earned a master's degree from Columbia University. Though in America opera was still pretty much 'white only', Mrs. Holloman toured with Mr. Duncan in the Caribbean, then in 1950 made her Broadway debut in "The Barrier", a musical based on Langston Hughes' play "Mulatto", in 1952 was seen in a revival of "Shuffle Along", and later in 1952 starred on the Great White Way in "My Darlin' Aida", an adaptation of Verdi's "Aida" set on a Plantation during the Civil War. Mrs. Holloman appeared to great acclaim in a 1954 Town Hall recital which programmed works by Mozart, Strauss, and Vivaldi. After presenting sold-out concerts with the Boston Symphony as well as at the Berkshire Music Festival, in San Francisco, and elsewhere, she received a 1961 Rockefeller Grant which took her to London and Berlin for further study; remaining in Germany for several years, she appeared with the opera companies of Saarbrucken and Essen, her roles including Abigaille from Verdi's "Nabucco", both the Queen of the Night and the First Lady in Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Maddalena of Umberto Giordano's "Andrea Chenier", Freia from Wagner's "Das Rheingold", and the title leads of Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hansel und Gretel" and Puccini's "Tosca" and "Madame Butterfly". Returning home, she became one of Washington's most sought-after voice teachers, holding faculty appointments at Catholic University of America, the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), Howard, and Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC), as well as maintaining a studio in her home. Following the example of her colleague Mr. Duncan, she never retired, maintaining a busy schedule in her home well after her 90th birthday; remaining sharp until the end, she continued working even after the onset of her final illness. Mrs. Holloman died in a nursing facility of breast cancer and the effects of advanced age; some of her live performances are preserved.