Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Treemonisha” — brilliant, flawed and unfinished — is ripe for creative reimagining at a time when opera houses are looking to diversify the canon. By ...

The Florida premiere of this work presented by Opera Orlando on May 16 through 18 at the Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater. Treemonisha is often considered America's first opera and features a tuneful score ...

Nobody knows for sure how Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" is supposed to sound. The orchestral score was lost, and all that remains is the piano-vocal score that Joplin published in 1911, six years ...

Scott Joplin was not what anyone today would call an activist. Still, the composer made subtle political statements that reflected on the social and political milieu of his time, the late 19th and ...

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of composer Scott Joplin’s death, OperaCréole, the Cripple Creek Theatre Company, New Orleans Airlift and the New Resonance Orchestra join forces to present his ...

John Schaefer: You're listening to the Artist Propulsion Lab, WQXR's incubator for emerging and mid-career artists. I'm John Schaefer, and today is the final episode of flute player Emi Ferguson's ...

An opera composed by ragtime musician Scott Joplin decades ago has been reborn -- despite the loss of the original score. Treemonisha, which was composed by Joplin in 1911 and first performed by the ...

Scott Joplin personified ragtime; he was its chief champion, the figure most closely associated with its composition. It was Joplin's short, hard-driving melodies- -and the syncopated backbone he ...

Toe-tapping and head-bobbing are inevitable when listening to the "King of Ragtime’s" songs. They’re so compelling and familiar that one is even a famous ice cream truck jingle. But the music that ...