Seattle Opera is making history staging its first opera ever composed by an African-American. Now X-The Life and Times of Malcom X is changing the face of this European art form. When the curtain ...

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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 ...

Portland Opera’s 60th season finds the eminent arts institution at a fulcrum. In recent months, it sold the Hampton Opera Center, the organization’s home base for over two decades, and now it’s deeply ...

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For the first time, traditional Negro spirituals will be sung as an opera, when Seattle Opera hosts the world premiere of “Jubilee,” on October 12. You can listen to the music and the story of how ...

Jeanine Tesori will become the first woman composer to open the season for the Metropolitan Opera in its 141-year history. Her revised opera, Grounded, will premiere at New York's Met on Monday night, ...

(ST. LOUIS) — A beloved St. Louis philanthropist and life board member at the Opera Theater left the company a “transformative” gift in the wake of her death. Phyllis Brissenden, who died on Dec. 17, ...