Composed by Kevin Day, the Cincinnati Opera’s Afrofuturist world premiere is a promising opening to its commissioning ...

There have been Black composers and Black storylines in opera, but they've often failed to gain traction with performing companies and audiences. This summer, Cincinnati Opera seeks to change that.

Imagine a world 400 years in the future, where a young woman is forced into exile after discovering she carries a rare gene linked to extraordinary power and immortality. That's the premise of a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I've spent much of my life as the only Black person in the room. I've spent much of my young life not seeing myself reflected on ...

In 2001, I was a stressed-out, underemployed graduate student at Xavier University, longing for some sort of escape from the daily monotony of the wake/eat/work/study ...

A repeated phrase in the opera "dwb" (driving while Black) is, "You are not who they see." Susan Kander, the composer of the opera, describes it as the mantra of a Black mother knowing her son, who is ...

Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany’s Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top stages, has died. She ...