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Articles written by Lucy Caplan

Lucy Caplan

Lucy Caplan is an assistant professor of music at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She wrote Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera (Harvard University Press, 2025).

Jan 20, 2026
America 250: How immigrants brought opera to American shores

A brief history of opera in America

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