Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera

Lucy Caplan explores the flourishing of Black composers, performers, and critics of opera in America during the early twentieth century. Working outside mainstream opera houses, these artists fostered countercultural forms of expression that reimagined opera as a medium of Black aesthetic and political creativity.

• | Author: Lucy Caplan
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 04, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674268517
• | ISBN-10: 0674268512