NAPLES, Italy (AP) — At long last, vindication has arrived for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as into gritty ...
Once banned from opera houses during the Jim Crow era, rarely-seen works by American composers of color are finally gracing U.S. stages, thanks to two New Orleans-based mezzo-sopranos. In ...
The opera “Andromeda” being performed in Lithuania as a part of the 700th anniversary of the country’s capital city of Vilnius. Andromeda is an historical Baroque-style opera written in the 1600s by a ...
New Orleans’ forgotten history of opera music is being brought back to life after centuries of neglect through the discovery of lost works of local composers of color. NBC’s Priscilla Thompson reports ...
New Orleanians Givonna Joseph and Patrick Quigley were guests of honor Wednesday at a small gathering on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The wine flowed. The caviar was as salty as ever. And singer ...
Teatro Nuovo is giving Carolina Uccelli’s pioneering “Anna di Resburgo” its first performances since its premiere in 1835. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Montclair, N.J. Luck has a lot to do with ...
New Orleans is on the cusp of making musical history. A never-before-performed opera composed by a free man of color 138 years ago will finally stage its long-overdue world premiere Thursday, Jan. 23, ...
NAPLES, Italy (AP) — At long last, vindication has arrived for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as into gritty ...