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Opera Profile: A Look at Wayne Shorter’s First Opera ‘Iphigenia’
https://operawire.com/opera-profile-a-look-at-wayne-shorters-first-opera-iphigenia/
Jazz opera is not a new phenomenon when it comes to American opera and the “American” opera tradition. Rather, jazz has thoroughly permeated the fabric of opera since the tradition’s very beginning. By all accounts, George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess,” an opera rife with controversy and iconic music, is the most famous. Yet, others like Scott Joplin’s well-received opera “Treemonisha,” {…}
