For half a century, Opera Ebony has been one of the guiding lights for Black performers looking to make their mark on the opera world. Born out of a necessity to develop talent often overlooked, the ...

Black voices have long faced a difficult path to inclusion in opera, and they're still underrepresented to this day, from the boardroom to the stage.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. As previously announced, The Black Opera Project seeks to illuminate the resilient ...

Cremaine Booker, center, plays the cello as Marsha Thompson, center right, the soprano in the opera “dwb” (driving while Black), practices at Texas Christian University. Courtesy Fort Worth Opera A ...

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 ...

Sally McKee, professor of history emerita at UC Davis, wrote a book, published in 2017, about a free African American man who was an accomplished composer and conductor. The opera she discovered in ...

A repeated phrase in the opera “dwb” (driving while Black) is, “You are not who they see.” Susan Kander, the composer of the opera, describes it as the mantra of a Black mother knowing her son, who is ...