A white woman and a woman she enslaved joined forces to spy on the Confederate White House. A Virginia Opera production, reviewed b.

RICHMOND, Va. — The Library of Virginia is celebrating Black History Month with two events in collaboration with Virginia Opera centered around Loving v. Virginia. Richard and Mildred Loving were a ...

Based upon historical facts pertaining to the underground Civil War spy network of Mary Jane Bowser and Elizabeth Van Lew This opera was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera. Virginia Opera ...

Flora Hawk as Mildred Jeter Loving, left, and director Denyce Graves-Montgomery in rehearsal for “Loving v. Virginia.” [Sunroom Video Production Co.] The opera stage is not a history classroom, but it ...

Virginia Opera celebrates its 50th anniversary with “Loving v. Virginia,” a brand new work about the couple who legalized interracial marriage. The men burst into the bedroom in the middle of the ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Two Hampton Roads staples, the Virginia Opera and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, are scrambling to try to raise thousands of dollars after federal grant funding was ...

Virginia Opera, in collaboration with the Richmond Symphony, will present the world premiere of Loving v. Virginia, composed by Damien Geter on a libretto by Jessica Murphy Moo, with mezzo-soprano ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A new opera celebrating the landmark court case that legalized interracial marriage in the United States will premiere in Virginia in the spring. 8News spoke with its composer ...

RICHMOND, Va. — This weekend, a Virginia story that changed the country takes the stage in Richmond as an opera about the U.S Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia wraps up its world premiere at the ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Mildred and Richard Loving's marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court case in 1967 that struck down laws banning interracial marriage. Now, over 50 years later, their story is being ...

The opera opens in the home of a doting but nervous married couple. They’re dressed casually — she in a pink nightgown, he in jeans and a flannel — but the mood is anything but. “A strange car pulled ...