New Opera Workshop News Today

Lyndon Terracini has defended the use of white singers to play Asian characters, and ruled out changing classic operas for the sake of political correctness.

In June of 2020, MassOpera and OperaHub announced a call for proposal submissions to the New Opera Workshop (NOW) seeking creative and innovative operatic works to add to the American operatic cannon.  Projects were required to feature a majority of female roles with a focus on roles for diverse women, by librettists and composers currently living in the United States.