OperaSouth, Inc.

Specializing in both classic and new works, the American company OperaSouth, Inc. is located in metro Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

 in the southeastern United States. It is a 501(c)3 non-profit performing arts organization and was founded in 2006. The company offers a dinner series called Edible Opera and an Opera Road Show. This company is currently presided over by young opera professionals.

OPERA/SOUTH

Chartered in 1971 & located in Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson is the capital and the most populous city of the US state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County ,. The population of the city declined from 184,256 at the 2000 census to 173,514 at the 2010 census...

, OPERA/SOUTH is a nonprofit opera company that aims to provide students with the opportunity to work in professional opera, to provide a showcase for young American artists and to introduce opera to new audiences. The company produced some 20 operas during the 1970s. Among them was A Bayou Legend by Mississippi native composer William Grant Still

William Grant Still

William Grant Still was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra, the first to have an opera performed by a major...

 and Ulysses Kay

Ulysses Kay

Ulysses Simpson Kay was an African American composer. His music is mostly neoclassical in style....

's opera Jubilee, with a libretto

Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...

 written by Mississippi historian and writer Margaret Walker Alexander.