Critics of Opera Based on Emmett Till's Murder Don't Want the Curtain to Go Up
Nearly 50 years after Emmett Till’s death, the composer of a new opera based on his murder wants her show to inspire conversations around racism. Emmett Till, A New American Opera, is inspired by the story of 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was brutally beaten and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at…