Castor and Patience

Castor and Patience is a new opera by composer Gregory Spears and
libretto by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy
K. Smith. 


The opera takes on the pervasive barriers to land ownership for
Black Americans by telling the story of two cousins' struggles to
own and keep property long held by their family.


Stephen Rawson attended the premiere and talked with Spears and
Smith about the opera.