See our post on Leotyne Price, a leading Black opera singer. Price's career opened many doors for Black opera performers. #LeotynePrice #BlackOpera

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Leontyne Price, Black Opera Singer

On January 23rd 1955, Leontyne Price became the first Black American to sing opera on television, appearing in the title role of Puccini’s “Tosca.” It was the culmination of a childhood dream for the Laurel, Mississippi...

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(De)coloniality: Opera & Music Theatre

"The Journal of Black Opera and Music Theatre is the new official journal of the Black Opera Research Network (BORN) and will begin as an annual (one-issue per year) publication. We welcome submissions on opera and other forms of music theatre that center #Blackness as a subject, methodology, identity construction or critical lens."

Deadline: 01/03/2024

https://bop.unibe.ch/index.php/J-Bom/index

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Journal of Black Opera and Music Theatre

Today's post is a collection of videos about Scott Joplin's "lost" opera, Treemonisha, which I saw performed in Toronto on Thursday. I bet you didn't know Joplin had written an opera. Neither did I, but I'm glad he did, and sorry he never got to see it performed.

https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2023/06/saturday-sounds-treemonisha-scott-joplin.html

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Saturday Sounds - Treemonisha - Scott Joplin

Treemonisha is an opera composed by Scott Joplin in 1911. It was never performed in full during his lifetime and the first complete perform...

“Black opera enters a golden age
Artists debut new works while scholars like Naomi André rediscover pieces long hidden in segregation’s shadows.” https://thewell.unc.edu/2023/02/06/black-opera-enters-a-golden-age/?fbclid=IwAR1_9Krbgxh-CLsTN0cPZjW7prXpbKWQd6pHd1Vqzs5-Ulere0h61U8MIJ0 #Opera #NewOpera #BlackOpera
Black opera enters a golden age - The Well

Artists debut new works while scholars like Naomi André rediscover pieces long hidden in segregation’s shadows.

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