One of those works, a Tacoma Opera world premiere, reckons with the city’s own racist past and challenges audiences to consider how to move forward as a multicultural city. A decade in the making, “ ...

The Tacoma Method. It’s an innocuous phrase for one of the ugliest acts in the city’s history. A day when a mob inflamed by the city’s leaders — including the forebears of this newspaper — pushed out ...

Sometimes opera gets a bad rap as having irrelevant plots or perpetuating antiquated stereotypes. But opera companies are producing contemporary works that tell true stories about our diverse ...