NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Givonna Joseph of Loyola University New Orleans and Gwen Thompkins of WWNO radio about the influence of opera on jazz music. And that is Jelly Roll Morton, the jazz ...

Both dive deeply into undeniable relationships between notes and truth. Both know when to follow a brilliantly written script and when to be fearless enough to embrace deconstruction and the deeper ...

Three different singers play the welterweight boxer Emile Griffith in Lyric Opera’s visceral production of Terence Blanchard’s 2013 jazz opera “Champion.” That’s not uncommon in biographical stories, ...

Detroit Opera made a strong impression Saturday night with the sprawling jazz opera “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” a production that bore skilled performances and excellent music but proved a ...

There seems no immediate probability that the sacrosanct wall of the Metropolitan Opera House will echo to the strident syncopations of U. S. jazz. This in spite of the fact that Otto H. Kahn, ...

Ted Rosenthal’s jazz opera "Dear Erich" was inspired by letters written in Germany between 1938 and 1941 by Herta Rosenthal to the composer’s father. Dear Erich depicts a family’s dual fates. Erich, a ...

🎤 Big Sexy is Back! Tonight, the curtain rises on “Big Sexy: The Fats Waller Revue”, premiering at the West Coast Black Theatre. This lively, family-friendly musical pays tribute to jazz legend Fats ...

It's been a tough few weeks for the music world, with the passing of Luciano Pavarotti and jazz master Max Roach. News & Notes commentator Betty Baye, a columnist with The Courier-Journal in ...

And that is Jelly Roll Morton, the jazz legend, playing "Miserere" from the opera "Il Trovatore" for Alan Lomax in 1938. Jazz, of course, is born of the African American experience and draws from ...