by Mia Pistorius | May 15, 2023 | Forum
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.
by Mia Pistorius | Mar 19, 2023 | Forum
In this Newsletter:
– OTSL highlights Black opera
– New productions
– Upcoming events
– Community highlights
by Mia Pistorius | Jan 12, 2023 | Forum
In this Newsletter:
– BORN at TOSCA
– Announcements
– Community Highlights
– New Members
– Upcoming Events
– Special Thanks
by Mia Pistorius | Oct 27, 2022 | Forum
In this Newsletter:
– BORN at TOSCA
– Announcements
– Community Highlights
– New Members
– Upcoming Events
– Special Thanks
by Mia Pistorius | Oct 27, 2022 | Forum
In this Newsletter:
– Regional Opera Companies Lead the Way
– Black Opera in Boston
– Community Highlights
– New Initiatives
– Upcoming Events
– Announcements
by Mia Pistorius | Oct 27, 2022 | Forum
In this Newsletter:
– Recent Events
– Important Updates
by Mia Pistorius | Oct 27, 2022 | Forum
Last week, the Los Angeles Review of Books published a wide-ranging survey of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis’s operas. In the profile, which provides captivating experiential descriptions of Davis’s compositional style, author Thomas Larson quotes the composer’s explanation for opera’s diversity problem:
by Mia Pistorius | Oct 27, 2022 | Forum
We are delighted to announce the publication of African Theatre 19: Opera and Music Theatre, edited by Christine Matzke, Lena van der Hoven, Christopher Odhiambo, and Hilde Roos.
by Mia Pistorius | Oct 27, 2022 | Forum
BORN is extremely proud to announce that Prof Naomi André has won the American Musicological Society’s Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award for her monograph, Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement (University of Illinois Press, 2018).
by Mia Pistorius | Oct 27, 2022 | Forum
Allison Lewis and Nicholas Newton discuss the Black Opera Database with Juliana M. Pistorius