An Opera By The Dean Of Black American Composers Finally Retakes The Stage

William Grant Still’s one-act Highway 1, U.S.A. has barely been seen since its 1963 premiere, but it’s being brought back to life this summer by Opera Theater of St. Louis with a cast headed by Nicole Cabell and Will Liverman and no less than Leonard Slatkin conducting. Yet it wouldn’t have happened at all if not for COVID. – The New York Times