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Many composers and librettists have found the opera stage a fine lens through which to examine specific moments in history or illustrate the lives of individual figures.
From a Pulitzer-winning opera to following the BSO’s Tanglewood Relay Run, A.Z. Madonna shares her "gratitude list."
Opera has played with ideas of gender since its earliest days. Now the first openly trans performers are taking to the stage, and operas explicitly exploring trans identities are beginning to emerge.
In a new book, scholar Rafael Medoff shows how outlets downplayed news of the genocide until late 1943, as FDR's government and even Jewish leaders felt little pressure to act