{"id":15689,"date":"2026-09-25T09:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/?p=15689"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:10:11","slug":"humanities-forum-on-a-groundbreaking-opera-today-9-25-at-330pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/humanities-forum-on-a-groundbreaking-opera-today-9-25-at-330pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanities Forum on a Groundbreaking Opera Today, 9\/25 at 3:30pm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musicologist Candace Bailey will speak on the first opera ever composed by a Black American &#8212; recently uncovered and performed after 125 years &#8212; and how it explores ideas about race, identity, and otherness: Ruane 105 at 3:30pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/Sep-25-HUM-forum-Poster-768x1024.png\" alt=\" Humanities Forum flyer Candace Bailey\" class=\"wp-image-15690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/Sep-25-HUM-forum-Poster-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/Sep-25-HUM-forum-Poster-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/Sep-25-HUM-forum-Poster-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/Sep-25-HUM-forum-Poster-1536x2048.png 1536w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/Sep-25-HUM-forum-Poster-1568x2091.png 1568w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/Sep-25-HUM-forum-Poster-1320x1760.png 1320w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/Sep-25-HUM-forum-Poster.png 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Musicologist Candace Bailey will speak on the first opera ever composed by a Black American &#8212; recently uncovered and performed after 125 years &#8212; and how it explores ideas about race, identity, and otherness: Ruane 105 at 3:30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15695,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions\/15695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}