Opera

Shanté Williams will be the first person of color to lead Opera Carolina. She’s CEO of Black Pearl Global Investments, a $25 million venture capital fund, and has served on Opera Carolina’s board.

A new exhibition on Mary Cardwell Dawson, founder of the National Negro Opera Company, opens March 26 at the Charlotte Museum of History. The company was established in 1941 and is the first successful Black opera company in the country.

Musicologist Harry Smith, who would have turned 100 this year, made a film, "Mahagonny," that he considered to be his magnum opus. It is being screened in Charlotte this weekend at the Independent Picture House, the first time it is being shown in a theater since undergoing a new restoration.

Among the things that Sarah “Jersey” Roche has learned in the past few weeks are:Her bedroom has the best acoustics at her house, probably because of all…

From time to time on this show, we discuss performances of plays, musicals, symphonies or operas composed or created by talented artists who are no longer…

Part One: Charlotte Symphony's Classical Idol. The concept behind American Idol is not new. We have always been fascinated by that special talent who…

Thabang Masango had been doing well as a singer in South Africa. He had won large singing competitions and was part of prominent choral group. In 2008,…