opera
‘Forgotten: Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant’: Jazz-blues opera revived in Detroit
July 28, 2025Coming to the stage this fall: a compelling musical show about Detroit workers.
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Edward Said has said his last word—on opera
May 12, 2025Edward W. Said (1935–2003) was an astute scholar of music and a classically trained pianist whose publications include Musical Elaborations and Music at the Limits.
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Little Tokyo hosts world premiere of opera ‘The Camp’ about Japanese-American internment
March 13, 2025Little Tokyo’s JACCC Aratani Theatre hosted the world premiere of a new opera, in English, about a Japanese-American family wrongfully placed in a concentration camp in 1942.
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Jeanine Tesori’s new opera ‘Grounded’ is a call to moral accountability
November 27, 2024While the opera does not tackle head-on the wars Jess is fighting, it will surely provoke such questioning in the audience—about moral ambiguity at the very least.
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‘Menotti Radio Hour’ sets two American operas in a broadcast studio
November 1, 2024It’s not a totally original idea: see The 1940’s Radio Hour.
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