BASTROP, Texas — Bastrop is a town steeped in history and it's known for preserving some of its historic buildings. One of the oldest buildings in town is still very much a part of the fabric of the ...

In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), W.E.B. Du Bois portrays a newcomer to the world of opera, enthralled by the Prelude to Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin. John “sat in dreamland, and started when, after a ...

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When Asa Irwin was growing up in Seattle, she knew talented black singers who performed in churches and sang in competitions. But “you never actually saw people of color performing in the major venues ...

In this sometimes plodding, sometimes energetic, but always fascinating history of opera, music historians Abbate and Parker conduct us on a captivating journey from the birth of opera in the 17th ...

OPERA. Often regarded as the most esoteric of the arts, opera didn't arrive fully garbed in Cleveland for more than half a century. The Manvers Operatic Co. is generally credited with bringing the ...

Sissieretta Jones is one of America's greatest opera singers, but her 19th century career has been left out of many modern history books. Rosalyn Story, author of And So I Sing: African American Divas ...

Every year upwards of 400,000 music lovers travel to the shores of Lake Constance in Bregenz, Austria, to witness opera performances on the world's largest floating stage at the Bregenz Festival. This ...

Rhianna Malas is a creative writer and essayist currently living in Melbourne, Australia. An RMIT alum, she has self produced a comic zine, and has written short stories and creative non-fiction ...