William Grant Still (composer), Langston Hughes and Verna Arvey (libretto). Troubled Island. USA, 1939.
Premiere: New York City Opera, 1949.
Read about it here: Kernodle, Tammy. 1999. ‘Arias, Communists, and Conspiracies: The History of Still’s Troubled Island’. The Musical Quarterly 83(4), 487-508.
Soll, Beverly. 2005. I Dream a World: The Operas of William Grant Still. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press.
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