OPERA America Launches the North American Opera Journal, an online scholarly journal about opera in the Western Hemisphere.
I am quite excited to announce the publication of the inaugual issue of the North American Opera Journal (NAOJ), not least for the purely selfish reason that it contains an article of my own about concert opera in America, above all, its musical and dramative function in our opera-going lives. It also contains “Porgy and Bess as a Human-Interest Opera” by James Parakilas, “The Operas of Elie Siegmeister (1909-1991)” by Leonard J. Lehrman, “Leontyne Price: An Interview” by Peter Dickinson. These should all be of compelling interest, and they all reach to the core of opera in America — a powerful tradition which is severely underestmated, even here on these shores.
For details, I can do no better than Opera America's own announcement:
New York, NY—OPERA America, the national
