Hyperallergic
Longreads Best of 2015 and Autostraddle’s Best of 2015 All Written by Women; mentions in Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable, Paris Review Daily, NYT, BBC, and NPR.  Interviews at Huffpost Live and PRI, The World.

Tenor George Shirley: “Opera, like any other theatrical form, reflects the human condition. There’s dignity and degradation, the entire range of what it means to be a human.”
Mezzo-soprano Tia Price: “When I started singing classical music, I felt there was no other place where people understood me. There’s a silence where people listen to me, where I’d never been listened to before…. When I sing a piece, I’m touching hundreds of years of history. I have to understand its context, what events led to its creation. The critical thinking from my musical education is what led me to understand what happened with Freddie Gray.”

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A poster for Sissieretta Jones, 1889 (Library of Congress)