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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The California African American Museum and LA County Library are honoring the month with memorable events and meet-ups.

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — 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 ...

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 ...

A look at the opera “Highway 1, USA” and what’s in store for audiences at this year’s DPT cabaret. We’ll talk with the granddaughter of African American composer William Grant Still, whose opera ...

Most cinematic musical biopics don’t give you a strong enough sense of the combination of imagination and hard work that making music requires. But Minnesota Opera is premiering a work that offers ...