When Emmy-nominated composer Levi Taylor saw Terence Blanchard's opera Champion (2013), it awakened something in him. "I was like, 'wow, wait, there's somebody who looks like me who's writing diverse ...

Performers in this year's New Works Collective (with librettist Jarrod Lee, center, with mic) take part in two or three of the world premieres debuting Feb. 6. There are Kleenex boxes on some of the ...

The College of Charleston Opera and the Charleston Symphony will present Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck and Il Re by Umberto Giordano, two exciting short operas, on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.

Two short operas that got their premieres at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. feature Black female protagonists. Two new operas focus on the Black female experience When Emmy-nominated composer ...