Opera is an art form that has been around for more than 400 years. But not mariachi opera. This hybrid form of contemporary opera and the Mexican tradition of mariachi folk music got its start just 13 ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer and UC San Diego professor Anthony Davis didn’t have to look beyond his backyard — ...

OPERA America has announced the seven composers selected as recipients of the 2024 Discovery Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers program, made possible with the generosity of the Virginia ...

Beth Morrison has shepherded dozens of new works into existence over the past 20 years. And her footprint continues to grow.

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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 ...

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 ...

Editor's note: The New Orleans performance of "Morgiane" has been rescheduled to Friday, Jan. 24. By 1887, New Orleans-born violinist Edmond Dédé was an established composer and conductor living in ...

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, ...

He composed the music for some of Spike Lee’s greatest movie masterpieces. Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmon's adaptation of "Fire Shut Up In My Bones" at the Metropolitan Opera House became the first ...

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