When soprano Caitlin Vincent, Peab '09 (MM), would get ready to perform an opera, she maintained a strict pre-performance ritual. She slept with a copy of the score under her pillow—to facilitate ...

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 ...

History is being made tonight at New York's Metropolitan Opera: For the first time in 138 years, the eminent company will present an opera by a Black composer. After 18 months of pandemic-canceled ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Jeanine Tesori will become the first woman composer to open the season for the Metropolitan Opera in its 141-year history ...