Last Saturday Opera Theatre of St. Louis premiered a new adaptation of Scott Joplin’s legendary opera Treemonisha. It is a bright and worthy addition to our recent flurry of adoration of some of America’s major black composers; the Black Rep closed their stunningly fine evening of Eubie Blake’s music three days earlier.
Opera’s future needs more than its past. Lyric Opera's world premiere "Proximity," a stimulating mashup of three different one-act works, is Chicago's latest proof.