New Operas Look To The Black Experience In America

Three major opera companies debuted operas this summer. They're all written by and star African Americans. They're part of a shift of whose stories are told onstage and who gets to tell them.

St. Louis Public Radio's Jeremy Goodwin (@JeremyDGoodwin) reports.

Update: "The Central Park Five" by Anthony Davis won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize.