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 ...

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 ...

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One of the oldest opera companies in the U.S. is celebrating its 90th anniversary in Colorado this year. The Central City Opera kicked off the summer season at the beginning of July. The company has ...

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 ...

The legendary musical The Phantom of the Opera has been bringing the music of the night to Broadway audiences for over 31 years, and 14 years ago today, the production surpassed Andrew Lloyd Webber's ...

Phyllis Hernden Brissenden left the largest gift the organization has received. A beloved St. Louis philanthropist and life board member at the Opera Theater left the company a "transformative" gift ...

LEWISBURG — An inconspicuous block of bricks stands at the edge of a municipal parking lot in Lewisburg, one side seemingly bearing scars from a lifetime ago. The monument on the sidewalk along South ...

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 ...