African American opera tenor George Shirley reflects on his trailblazing music career. As one of the first African American operatic performers, renowned tenor and trailblazer George Shirley’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled with a ...

Sally McKee, professor of history emerita at UC Davis, wrote a book, published in 2017, about a free African American man who was an accomplished composer and conductor. The opera she discovered in ...

When thinking about African American opera, “Porgy and Bess” immediately comes to mind. But that was written by George Gershwin, a white man. William Grant Still (1895-1978), a Black composer whose ...

Detroit Opera and Cranbrook present an immersive 'musicircus' for America's 250th, exploring what it means to be American.

WPI professor Lucy Caplan's book "Dreaming in Ensemble" has just been published "Dreaming in Ensemble" explores how Black artists formed a transformative "Black operatic counterculture" "Dreaming in ...

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 ...

Kick off Black History Month with an evening of powerful voices and extraordinary stories at the Bryant Library in Roslyn. Soprano and educator Tanisha Mitchell will present “Opera in Ebony: Tribute ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled with a collective sense the audience was about to witness history. They were ...