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 ...

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The Southern Theatre has been home to many opera productions over the years. For the last 35 years, Opera Columbus has provided the capital city with a hometown company and amazing works. However ...

African-American opera performers Shirley Verrett and George Shirley remember a black opera pioneer. Robert McFerrin was the first black male soloist to perform at the Metropolitan Opera. That was in ...

Microsoft had Bill Gates. Starbucks has Howard Schultz. And the Seattle Opera had its own leading men, Glynn Ross and Speight Jenkins. Regarding the question of whether the man makes history or ...

When Asa Irwin was growing up in Seattle, she knew talented black singers who performed in churches and sang in competitions. But “you never actually saw people of color performing in the major venues ...

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 ...