Opera Is Becoming More Diverse. It's About Time. - How composers of color are pushing the genre in new directions
How composers of color are pushing the genre in new directions---I moved to New York City in 2011 to be a theatre journalist, and in addition to becoming a bona fide Broadway baby, I also planned to regularly attend the other "high" performing arts: dance, the symphony, and especially the opera. Yet I soon gave up on becoming a connoisseur of the latter. Although the genre is famous for being passionate and epic, ope…