NEW YORK (AP) — Oksana Lyniv, Speranza Scappucci, Marin Alsop and Xian Zhang filled their lockers in the guest conductors’ dressing room off the Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra pit. Just four women had ...

OPERA America has awarded the sixth cycle of Commissioning Grants from its Opera Grants for Female Composers program to nine Professional Company Members. The grants, totaling $100,000, support the ...

OPERA America has announced the launch of the Opera Grants for Female Stage Directors and Conductors program, a new initiative developed to advance gender parity in the field by incentivizing opera ...

Lidiya Yankovskaya is the music director for the Chicago Opera Theater. She was pregnant when conducting “Becoming Santa Claus” last month, and she returned to her podium days after giving birth to ...

Afton Battle is one of the very few Black female general directors of an opera company in North America. She was hired in late 2020 to transform the company — in the middle of a pandemic. When Afton ...

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