Stream an Operatic Rarity by a Black Composer (While You Can)

William Grant Still’s “Highway 1, U.S.A.,” staged by Opera Theater of St. Louis, is available online until Sept. 30.

A Black Composer Finally Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera

Terence Blanchard, best known for scoring Spike Lee films, reopens the 138-year-old opera company with “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.”

When Europe Offered Black Composers an Ear

Spurned by institutions in America, artists were sometimes given more opportunities across the Atlantic.

A Black Composer’s Intense Opera Gets a Rare Staging

William Grant Still’s one-act “Highway 1, U.S.A.” runs in St. Louis through June 17.