Although the Civil Rights Movement would offer plenty of potential material for a grand opera, this work is a tightly focused, intimate chamber opera, with a cast of just seven, including several singers who cover two or more roles.
The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the subject of a brand-new opera, set to make its world premiere next week in Chicago... women from the Civil Rights Movement.
Civil Rights leader protests death penalty at Columbia South Carolina... A leader in the civil rights movement will deliver the keynote address at Anderson University's spring commencement on May 9.