Panel Discussion: Opera Beyond Borders
BORN invites you to its annual online panel discussion on 8 June 2026.
Symposium announcement: Opera | Black | Queer
The UCLA Department of Musicology and BORN announce a hybrid symposium on the topic of Opera | Black | Queer.
New publication: Postcolonial Opera
BORN working team member Juliana M. Pistorius’s monograph, Postcolonial Opera: William Kentridge and the Unbounded Work of Art, has been published by Oxford University Press. Postcolonial Opera examines the social and political role of opera in the postcolony....
Newsletter – August 2025
In this newsletter:
– Journal of Black Opera and Music Theatre
– An opera about Paul Robeson
– Community highlights
– New publications
Call for Editions: Black Opera Critical Editions
BORN seeks proposals for new critical editions of Black Operas.
Newsletter – January 2025
In this newsletter:
– World premiere of a historic Black opera
– Community highlights
– New publications