Title character Treemonisha (JoAnna Ford) tries to focus on reading, while Remus (Murvyn T. Cannady II) focuses on romance in Scott Joplin's ragtime opera "Treemonisha", part of the "INTERSECTIONS" festival at Atlas Performing Arts Center through March 7. Photo by Scott Suchman
- Title character Treemonisha (JoAnna Ford) tries to focus on reading, while Remus (Murvyn T. Cannady II) focuses on romance in Scott Joplin's ragtime opera "Treemonisha", part of the "INTERSECTIONS" festival at Atlas Performing Arts Center through March 7. Photo by Scott Suchman
- Scott Joplin composed his ragtime opera "Treemonisha" in 1910, and paid to publish it. The opera was last seen in the DC area in 1976. Cover Treemonisha: Opera in Three Acts. Words and music by Scott Joplin (New York: Scott Joplin, c 1911). Performing Arts Reading Room, Library of Congress
- Scott Joplin, "Father of Ragtime", performed only three works for the stage. Only "Treemonisha" survives. His inability to raise funds to produce it contributed to his ill health in his final years. He won a Pulitzer posthumously for his contribution to American music. Image courtesy of Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs Division
- "Treemonisha" became known when the Houston Grand Opera performed in in 1975. Photo courtesy of Houston Grand Opera
- Joplin's "The Entertainer" is the theme to "The Sting". His rags formed the soundtrack of the Redford-Newman film, which greatly popularized Joplin's music.
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