Flora Hawk as Mildred Jeter Loving, left, and director Denyce Graves-Montgomery in rehearsal for “Loving v. Virginia.” [Sunroom Video Production Co.] The opera stage is not a history classroom, but it ...

The opera opens in the home of a doting but nervous married couple. They’re dressed casually — she in a pink nightgown, he in jeans and a flannel — but the mood is anything but. “A strange car pulled ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A new opera celebrating the landmark court case that legalized interracial marriage in the United States will premiere in Virginia in the spring. 8News spoke with its composer ...

A love story this epic needs to be told in an epic way. Thus, the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, a Virginia couple whose case overturned states’ laws banning interracial marriage, will be told ...

RICHMOND, Va. — This weekend, a Virginia story that changed the country takes the stage in Richmond as an opera about the U.S Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia wraps up its world premiere at the ...

The International Center will host an event at Gainbridge Fieldhouse this weekend to commemorate the Supreme Court’s landmark “Loving v. Virginia” decision. The unanimous 1967 ruling found that laws ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Opera and the Richmond Symphony are bringing “Loving v. Virginia” to the Dominion Energy Center’s Carpenter Theatre this May. The show’s Richmond run is part of its ...

Loving v. Virginia is a powerful opera based on the true story of Mildred and Richard Loving, whose fight for interracial marriage led to the landmark 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down ...

Virginia Opera and Richmond Symphony present the highly anticipated world premiere of Loving v. Virginia. A young couple’s interracial marriage in 1958 sparks a case that leads to the Supreme Court ...

Sixty years ago, Life Magazine photographer Grey Villet photographed Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial married couple who had been arrested and convicted under Virginia’s anti-miscegenation ...