Charleston

It is one of the most closely watched and contentious primaries in the state as Republican, freshman Congresswoman Nancy Mace defends her seat against a former state representative trying for a second time to win the 1st District.

Spoleto Festival USA premieres 'Omar' after a two year, pandemic-related delay. The opera shares the story of a Muslim scholar from Senegal who was sold into slavery in Charleston and wrote the only known autobiography by a slave in Arabic in America.

Harpist Parker Ramsay offers insights into his instrument and its central role in The Street—a collaboration between composer Nico Muhly and librettist Alice Goodman being performed for the first time in the US.

The first new general director for Spoleto Festival USA in nearly 40 years, Mena Mark Hanna, is inspired by the world premiere of the opera Omar and has plans to bring more people of color on stage and in the audience.

Pianist Renate Rohlfing shares about Spoleto Festival USA's Tell Your Story, a new oral history project that fosters artistic collaboration between Spoleto Orchestra fellows and lifelong residents of the South Carolina Lowcountry.

Spoleto General Director Mena Mark Hanna envisions the 46th season of the Charleston performing arts event as one that will broaden conceptions, explore spirituality, and express the "wonderment of life".

Operatic baritone Will Liverman and pianist Paul Sánchez—Director of Piano Studies at CofC and Artistic Director of the university's International Piano Series—are joining together once again for the first Charleston performance of works from their acclaimed album Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers.

Inspired by the Charleston-area legend of early 19th-century convicts John and Lavinia Fisher, Jeremy Turner's Six-Mile House premieres in Beaufort on Sunday, April 10th, with a second performance in Columbia on April 12th.

A Serbian-born movie director found the story of a Greek Orthodox saint helped doors open in Greece where they had been closed in Hollywood.

In February 1864, the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley became the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in combat, in Charleston Harbor.