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Castor and Patience is an opera composed by Gregory Spears to a libretto by Tracy K. Smith, commissioned by Cincinnati Opera for its 100th anniversary season and received its world premiere there in July 2022.
William Grant Still in 1949, photographed by Carl Van Vechten. Highway 1, USA is an American opera in one act with music by William Grant Still and libretto by Verna Arvey. [1] [2] Originally composed during the 1940s with the title A Southern Interlude, the opera received its premiere under its revised and definitive title in 1963.
Omar is an American opera, composed by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, with a libretto by Giddens. It had its world premiere at the Spoleto Festival USA in 2022. It had its West Coast premiere at Los Angeles Opera in October 2022.
The 20th century saw the rise of the "truly American" opera, characterized by drawing upon distinctly American themes, settings, and musical styles, such as jazz and gospel music. [8] In this sense, the first American operas emerged in 1937, with the premieres of Virgil Thomson’s Four Saints in Three Acts and George Gershwin’s Porgy and ...
Man on the Moon (opera) The Man Without a Country (opera) Manon Lescaut (Puccini) Margaret Garner (opera) Marilyn (opera) A Marvelous Order; McTeague (opera) The Medium; Merry Mount (opera) Moby-Dick (opera) Morning Star (opera) The Mother of Us All; Mourning Becomes Electra (opera)
It was the first time that the work of an African-American composer was presented by a major American opera company. [4] Although the leading roles of Dessalines and his wife Azelia were based on black Haitians, the opera company cast white opera stars Robert Weede and Marie Powers, who wore dark make-up for the 1949 premiere. [4]
The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City. The company has been active from 1943 through its 2013 bankruptcy, and again since 2016 when it was revived. The opera company, dubbed "the people's opera" by New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, was founded in 1943. The company's stated purpose ...
Carlisle Sessions Floyd (June 11, 1926 – September 30, 2021) was an American composer primarily known for his operas.These stage works, for which he wrote not only the music but also the librettos, typically engage with themes from the American South, particularly the Post-civil war South, the Great Depression and rural life.