One of the oldest opera companies in the U.S. is celebrating its 90th anniversary in Colorado this year. The Central City Opera kicked off the summer season at the beginning of July. The company has ...

Editor’s Note: Naomi André is an opera expert, academic and published author. Her most recent book is “Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely ...

In her incisive book “Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement,” the musicologist Naomi André frames black opera—opera that foregrounds black experiences, voices, and bodies—as a kind of shadow culture ...

Despite the initial stir caused by this new experiment, “opera was, in fact, a slow-burn rise to success, rather than an instant hit,” Tim Carter, distinguished emeritus professor of music at the ...

Sissieretta Jones is one of America's greatest opera singers, but her 19th century career has been left out of many modern history books. Rosalyn Story, author of And So I Sing: African American Divas ...

In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), W.E.B. Du Bois portrays a newcomer to the world of opera, enthralled by the Prelude to Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin. John “sat in dreamland, and started when, after a ...

Phyllis Hernden Brissenden left the largest gift the organization has received. A beloved St. Louis philanthropist and life board member at the Opera Theater left the company a "transformative" gift ...

It wasn’t quite the glass-shattering crescendo opera lovers would have expected from the end of such a long, dramatic act; it didn’t even carry the emotional heft of a fading pianissimo in slowly ...

This month in Tulsa, Okla., opera singer Lucia Lucas made her U.S. debut. She also made history. At the Tulsa Opera, Lucas sang the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Mozart's character is a ...