Flora Hawk as Mildred Jeter Loving, left, and director Denyce Graves-Montgomery in rehearsal for “Loving v. Virginia.” [Sunroom Video Production Co.] The opera stage is not a history classroom, but it ...

The opera opens in the home of a doting but nervous married couple. They’re dressed casually — she in a pink nightgown, he in jeans and a flannel — but the mood is anything but. “A strange car pulled ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A new opera celebrating the landmark court case that legalized interracial marriage in the United States will premiere in Virginia in the spring. 8News spoke with its composer ...

RICHMOND, Va. — This weekend, a Virginia story that changed the country takes the stage in Richmond as an opera about the U.S Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia wraps up its world premiere at the ...

Virginia Opera and the Richmond Symphony are bringing "Loving v. Virginia" to the Dominion Energy Center's Carpenter Theatre ...

Virginia Opera, in collaboration with the Richmond Symphony, will present the world premiere of Loving v. Virginia, composed by Damien Geter on a libretto by Jessica Murphy Moo, with mezzo-soprano ...

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Virginia Opera teamed up with the Richmond Symphony to commission a work with a state-centric story. Damien Geter’s “Loving v. Virginia,” which had its ...