Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music will present an exclusive preview of O’Keeffe ...

When Opera Project Columbus puts on a show, the first aim is to entertain. In several recent productions, however, the company has a more profound mission in mind. For several years, the troupe has ...

After 138 years, what is thought to be the earliest existing opera by a Black American composer is finally getting its world premiere. A concert opera performance of Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane,” which is ...

American composer and conductor William Grant Still (1895-1978) was born in Mississippi and became the first Black person to conduct a professional orchestra in the United States. Among his ...

The following is a press release written by Maestro Diego Barbosa-Vásquez for the Performing Arts Laboratory. Opera is reinvented through diversity: PAL announces the 2025 call for Opera Camp™, a ...

Pittsburgh Opera will explore 900 years of music by women composers in an upcoming free concert. Called “Women’s March,” the 55-minute program will stream on the opera’s YouTube channel at 7 p.m.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Now, in its 138-year history, the Metropolitan Opera in New York has never hosted a performance by black composer until now. The pandemic close The Met for a year-and-a-half. And ...

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Opera Philadelphia’s latest premiere is like an exquisite corpse, with a libretto by Michael R. Jackson and starring Justin Vivian Bond. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Reporting from Philadelphia As so ...

Veteran opera composer Carlisle Floyd was too early with his swan song. As he celebrated his 80th birthday in 2006, he told the Houston Chronicle he considered the acclaimed "Cold Sassy Tree," ...

I WORK in the lyric theater; my practical experience may have interest since I have had the chance to collaborate with many poets, painters, and musicians in the last twenty years. The dance, ...