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While the creators of a a new opera about Emmett Till hope it will inspire white people to confront racism, others worry it depicts Black trauma for white entertainment while masquerading as activism.
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The big-voiced soprano is in her mid-thirties, and she didn't even hear an opera live until she was in her twenties. Now, she's a sought-after opera singer.
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On her new album, the opera star suggests Mother Nature has a lot to teach us, if we'd only listen.
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Star performers at the famed New York opera house, including soprano Anna Netrebko and conductor Valery Gergiev, have been closely associated with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Hair and makeup workers at the Atlanta Opera want to collectively bargain. But the opera is arguing that the workers are independent contractors, and not employees.
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Langston Hughes is best known for writing powerful poetry and prose, but he was also an opera librettist.
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Acclaimed for her fearless performances in operas by Strauss and Bizet, Ewing also partly inspired Passing, a film written and directed by her daughter, Rebecca Hall.
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“I always want to do my part to sing not just the great literature from Brahms and Strauss and Schumann, but also... to share the Black experience as well," says mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis. Hear her full recital at the link.
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The pair took a close look at the subtexts of Euripides' sad, epic tale of Iphigenia — agency, testosterone, violence, faith — and, through a suite of new music, hold them up to the light.