Mary Cardwell Dawson grew up in rural North Carolina and went on to found the National Negro Opera Company in Pittsburgh in 1941. A new play, starring Denyce Graves and performed by Opera Carolina in ...

NEW YORK — On Wednesday at St. Bartholomew’s Cathedral, Opera Lafayette gave the first of two concerts celebrating the 30-year career of its departing founder, artistic director and conductor, Ryan ...

Madison, North Carolina, native Mary Cardwell Dawson is the subject of an exhibition at the Charlotte Museum of History. She founded the National Negro Opera Company in 1941. The exhibition closes Feb ...

Beth Morrison has shepherded dozens of new works into existence over the past 20 years. And her footprint continues to grow.

She was always on the go. Leone Cottrell Adkins was always a very busy woman. When attending college at Cornish College of Arts she would have early morning and late nights. She would come back home ...

The earliest documentation of a New Orleans opera performance was in 1796, the opera “Sylvain,” by Andre Gretry.

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Melody Alesi’s longtime dream has been to reach the community of Staten Island through opera and create a concert opera company comprised of an audience that appreciates the art ...

Performances in N.Y.C. In Strauss’s “Salome,” is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history. Manon Fleur Antonio and ...