Cincinnati Opera has announced the launch of The Black Opera Project, a groundbreaking, three-opera commissioning initiative that engages Black creators to develop new works celebrating Black stories.

Audiences enraptured by the Florida Grand Opera’s production of “I pagliacci” and lead singers Limmie Pulliam and Kearstin Piper Brown gave standing ovations to the classic play within a play. But ...

Cremaine Booker, center, plays the cello as Marsha Thompson, center right, the soprano in the opera “dwb” (driving while Black), practices at Texas Christian University. Courtesy Fort Worth Opera A ...

Soprano Marsha Thompson, shown in a dress rehearsal last week, portrays the Mother in Fort Worth Opera's "Driving While Black." The solo opera by composer Susan Kander and librettist Roberta Gumbel ...

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 ...