Flora Hawk as Mildred Jeter Loving, left, and director Denyce Graves-Montgomery in rehearsal for “Loving v. Virginia.” [Sunroom Video Production Co.] The opera stage is not a history classroom, but it ...

RICHMOND, Va. — This weekend, a Virginia story that changed the country takes the stage in Richmond as an opera about the U.S Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia wraps up its world premiere at the ...

Virginia Opera and the Richmond Symphony are bringing "Loving v. Virginia" to the Dominion Energy Center's Carpenter Theatre ...

Virginia Opera, in collaboration with the Richmond Symphony, will present the world premiere of Loving v. Virginia, composed by Damien Geter on a libretto by Jessica Murphy Moo, with mezzo-soprano ...

The opera opens in the home of a doting but nervous married couple. They’re dressed casually — she in a pink nightgown, he in jeans and a flannel — but the mood is anything but. “A strange car pulled ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. - The Virginia Opera and the Richmond Symphony announced Monday that they have co-commissioned an operatic retelling of Loving v. Virginia, the United States Supreme Court case that ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Mildred and Richard Loving's marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court case in 1967 that struck down laws banning interracial marriage. Now, over 50 years later, their story is being ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A new opera celebrating the landmark court case that legalized interracial marriage in the United States will premiere in Virginia in the spring. 8News spoke with its composer ...

Inviting the audience to sympathize with the villains: The Palestinian Woman with terrorist Omar in a scene from "The Death of Klinghoffer." AP I love opera. For almost three years, I regularly ...

A love story this epic needs to be told in an epic way. Thus, the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, a Virginia couple whose case overturned states’ laws banning interracial marriage, will be told ...