Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flora Hawk as Mildred Jeter Loving, left, and director Denyce Graves-Montgomery in rehearsal for "Loving v. Virginia." [Sunroom ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
They could have called it “Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers,” after Phyl Newbeck’s book, subtitled “Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving.” But composer Damien ...
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 ...