American audiences have yet to discover the opera The Time of Our Singing, adapted from an American novel by two Belgians. While the creative triumvirate—Richard Powers (author), Peter Kraaij (libretto), and Kris Defoort (music)—is all-male and white, their sweeping interracial family saga stands as the richest operatic treatment of #BLM themes yet to emerge. Will American audiences ever see it? —Matthew Gurewitsch