One of the oldest opera companies in the U.S. is celebrating its 90th anniversary in Colorado this year. The Central City Opera kicked off the summer season at the beginning of July. The company has ...

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African-American opera performers Shirley Verrett and George Shirley remember a black opera pioneer. Robert McFerrin was the first black male soloist to perform at the Metropolitan Opera. That was in ...

Microsoft had Bill Gates. Starbucks has Howard Schultz. And the Seattle Opera had its own leading men, Glynn Ross and Speight Jenkins. Regarding the question of whether the man makes history or ...

Sissieretta Jones is one of America's greatest opera singers, but her 19th century career has been left out of many modern history books. Rosalyn Story, author of And So I Sing: African American Divas ...