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GBH Music and Boston Lyric Opera presented MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Rhiannon Giddens in conversation with renowned scholar of Black music and culture, and co-host of the GBH News podcast All Rev’d Up Emmett G. Price III about the New England premiere of Omar, composed by Giddens and Michael […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Throughout February, as part of Black History Month, the Manistee News Advocate and Manistee Area Racial Justice & Diversity Initiative will share some information about the lives of some of the African-American people and groups who have made an impact in American history and in our local community. Mary Violet Leontyne (Le’-on-teen) Price, […]
Hello and welcome to first weekly L.A. Times soccer newsletter of the new year. I’m Kevin Baxter, The Times’ soccer writer, and today we’ll discuss the youngest player ever selected in the NWSL draft, the women’s league dealing out some heavy justice in the wake of its report into misconduct in women’s soccer, and what […]
Written by Angus Watson, CNNSydney, Australia In a World War II-era fuel storage tank deep beneath Sydney, the smell of gasoline still hangs in the air. Pulsing lights sweep the cavernous space to reveal fragments of “The End of Imagination,” an installation by Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas. Five twisting sculptural forms, born from a […]
The Phantom of the Opera, Broadway’s longest-running show, is scheduled to close in February 2023. The musical – a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts – will play its final performance on Broadway on 18 February, a spokesperson said on Friday. The closure will come less than a month after […]
Rome — Soprano Angel Blue says she won’t perform in an opera in Italy this month because blackface was used in the staging of a different work this summer on the same stage. The U.S. singer posted a note on her angeljoyblue Instagram page saying she will be bowing out of “La Traviata” at Verona’s […]
Comment on this story Comment ROME — Soprano Angel Blue says she won’t perform in an opera in Italy this month because blackface was used in the staging of a different work this summer on the same stage. The U.S. singer posted a note on her angeljoyblue Instagram page saying she will be bowing . […]
A leading American soprano, Angel Blue, announced this week that she was withdrawing from her planned debut at the Arena di Verona in Italy to protest its use of “blackface makeup” in a production of Verdi’s “Aida” that starred the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. “The use of blackface under any circumstances, artistic or otherwise, is […]
The storied opera singing career of Simon Estes, the baritone-bass from Centerville who broke barriers as an international performer beginning in the 1960s, will come to an end in his home state in July. For nearly 60 years, Estes has wowed audiences from the pope to Nelson Mandela as he traveled the world with his vibrant voice. Next month, […]
Tenor Jamez McCorkle, who debuted the title role in the opera Omar, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, which received its world premiere on May 27 in Charleston, S.C. at Spoleto Festival USA. Leigh Webber/Courtesy of Spoleto Festival USA hide caption toggle caption Leigh Webber/Courtesy of Spoleto Festival USA Tenor Jamez McCorkle, who debuted the […]