`This House’ makes world premiere, exploring Black history through a family’s legacy in Harlem A rumination on love, aspiration, coping and the unyielding weight of the past, the opera mixes ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Near the end of “This House,” a heart-wrenching opera given its world premiere last weekend, the matriarch Ida poignantly intones messages to her family on stage and to the ...