As Detroit Opera officials made plans last fall to bring a production based on the Central Park Five to their 2025 lineup, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump loomed large and just off stage ...

These women have largely been forgotten, until now. The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the subject of a brand-new opera, set to make its world premiere next week in ...

The opera spotlights the women who challenged segregation in Montgomery, using classical music infused with sounds of gospel, jazz and the blues to tell the story centered around seven women.

BroadwayWorld chats with San Francisco Opera's Carrie-Ann Matheson about the 2025 Merola Summer Festival featuring four ...

The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in ...

As a student, Han learned to perform the classic Huangmei Opera piece, The Emperor's Female Son-in-Law. In 1986, she played the leading role in a TV drama adapted from the classic piece, which was ...

Opera Kansas is presenting "Staggerwing," which tells the story of Blanche Noyes and Louise Thaden, who won the 1936 Bendix ...

EXCLUSIVE: Women Occupy Hollywood, the L.A.-based production company committed to female-driven storytelling, has secured ...

Soap opera star Denise Alexander ... barriers on screen and off,” especially in her role as one of the first female doctors on television. From left, Chris Robinson, John Stamos and Denise ...

NEW YORK — Soap opera star Denise Alexander ... on screen and off,” especially in her role as one of the first female doctors on television. Born in New York City on Nov. 11, 1939, Alexander ...

Soap opera veteran Denise Alexander has passed away ... She broke barriers on-screen and off, portraying Dr. Lesley Webber—one of the first female doctors on Daytime Television—for nearly ...

In the last couple of years, Oregon Shakespeare Festival has produced Coriolanus in Portland with an all-female cast amid a ... Portland Opera’s director of artistic planning and operations.