At a rehearsal last month for the opera The Central Park Five, singers wearing soft athletic pants and baseball caps warmed up by a piano. The opera is based on a real-life tragedy, about a group of ...
'The Central Park Five,' an opera telling the story of what happened to five Black and Latinx teenagers after they were falsely accused of raping a white woman in 1989. “The Central Park Five,” an ...
In 1989, Trump took out full-page newspaper ads demanding the death penalty "for roving bands of wild criminals." The Detroit Opera decided to... This opera tells the story of 'The Central Park Five,' ...