Wayne Muller on Opera in Cape Town: The Critic’s Voice
BORN interviews Wayne Muller about his first monograph, Opera in Cape Town: The Critic’s Voice (Stellenbosch, 2023)
BORN members on Rhiannon Giddens’ and Michael Abels’ opera, Omar
BORN working team member Naomi André has published a short reflection on Rhiannon Giddens’s and Michael Abels’s new opera, Omar, on the website of Carolina Performing Arts. We include a link to the article, titled ‘Sounding the Shadows as Omar...
AMS Prize for BORN Working Team Member!
BORN working team member Kristen Turner, along with co-author Horace J. Maxile, Jr., has received the 2023 AMS Teaching Award for their volume, Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teachers’ Guide (Routledge, 2022). The prize committee...
Newsletter – October 2023
In this Newsletter:
– VA Opera’s new commission
– Community news
– Upcoming events
Gorges Ocloo’s Golden Stool, or the Story of Nana Yaa Asantewaa and the Anti-Colonial Promise of AfrOpera
Ghanaian-born composer Gorges Ocloo’s new work, The Golden Stool, or the Story of Nana Yaa Asantewaa, uses opera to celebrate a powerful woman and to deliver a searing critique of colonialism.
Newsletter – February 2023
In this Newsletter:
– OTSL highlights Black opera
– New productions
– Upcoming events
– Community highlights