The new opera by Tazewell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori tells the story of a couple in Harlem who are forced to confront their teenage son's sudden... New Opera 'Blue' Takes On The Tragedy Of Police ...

SEATTLE — "Blue" is a critique of police brutality against the black community, but most of all, it's a story about a happy family and how a tragedy could change them completely. The title, "Blue", is ...

ROME — Soprano Angel Blue says she won’t perform in an opera in Italy this month because blackface was used in the staging of a different work this summer on the same stage. The U.S. singer, who grew ...

Celebrating 50 years, and the first full season under the artistic leadership of Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director Yuval Sharon, Michigan Opera Theatre is poised to mount its first fully staged ...

Can opera be a medium for social commentary and change? This has been on my mind lately-or, more accurately, yet again--since attending a preview of the new Jeanine Tesori-Tazewell Thompson opera, ...

In rehearsal at Lyric Opera of Chicago for my two-act work, “Blue.” I had gone to bed on election night with a mixed sense of hope and dread and woke up Wednesday morning with a deep sense of grief, ...

"I believe if you're going to invite people in for the pain, you have to have them to the party as well. The greater the light, the greater the pain," says Jeanine Tesori about the new opera "Blue" ...

Get to know the international opera star whose life changed at the age of four, when she saw a soprano on stage for the first time. Angel Blue is an American soprano from Los Angeles, California. She ...

When bass Ken Kellogg was in rehearsals for the 2019 premiere of the opera “Blue,” the composer, Jeanine Tesori, cautioned him that the experience would be unlike other operas. “She said, ‘You know, ...

Michigan Opera Theatre is tackling the hot-button issues of police brutality and race, as well as the eternal subjects of family, love, and grief in “Blue,” a new American opera running Saturday and ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Grammy-winning soprano, Angel Blue, is in the midst of her Houston Grand Opera debut as the doomed heroine "Violetta" in Verdi's "La Traviata" at the Wortham Center. "La ...