Alex Ross: Ira Aldridge, the pioneering black Shakespearean. by Alex Ross

In 1896, a thirty-six-year-old opera singer named Luranah Aldridge travelled to Germany to prepare for performances of Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung,” at the Bayreuth Festival. Dozens of young singers had made such a journey before her: thirteen years after Wagner’s . . . (Subscription required.)

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