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.
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– OTSL highlights Black opera
– New productions
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In this Newsletter:
– BORN at TOSCA
– Announcements
– Community Highlights
– New Members
– Upcoming Events
– Special Thanks
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– Regional Opera Companies Lead the Way
– Black Opera in Boston
– Community Highlights
– New Initiatives
– Upcoming Events
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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:
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.
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).
Allison Lewis and Nicholas Newton discuss the Black Opera Database with Juliana M. Pistorius