Little Known Virginia History Comes Alive in Opera

(Jacqueline Echols McCarley will make her Virginia Opera debut in the east coast premiere of “Intelligence.” Photo courtesy of L2 Artists.)

Virginia Opera is “bringing a Virginia story home” with its January 30 – February 1 East Coast premiere of “Intelligence,” said company Artistic Director Adam Turner.

Imagine a Civil War Union spy network, based in Richmond, that heart and capital of the Confederacy, run by a young socialite, the daughter of wealthy Rebel sympathizers. Imagine also that her prime agent was an enslaved woman of her household…

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