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Meet The Artist: Maureen Broy Papovich’s New Opera on Her Grandmother’s Fight for the ERA

About This Webinar

Join API as we speak with opera singer and composer Maureen Broy Papovich who recently created a deeply personal operetta about her grandmother's work with Alice Paul and the fight for gender equality. Broy Papovich’s interest in the women’s movement inspired a new musical work about the National Women’s Party (NWP), the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and her grandmother, Cecil Norton Broy, who lived and worked with Alice Paul on the ERA as political chairman of the NWP. For this project she collaborated with composer Rain Nox to write a set of songs for soprano and piano about the women’s movement, its history, and current status.

Together Broy Papovich and composer Rain Nox collaborated to craft a brand new set of songs for classical soprano and piano. The six songs in the work speak to the history of the Equal Rights Amendment and the National Women’s Party. In this virtual event, we’ll hear about Maureen’s creative process, how her grandmother’s work inspired this new body of work, and about her advocacy for the ERA.

Note: In a future virtual event scheduled for August 18th, just days before she’ll perform the full body of work for the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, we will hear Broy Papovich perform excerpts from the body of work.

Who can view: Everyone
Webinar Price: Donation
Featured Presenters
Webinar hosting presenter
Maureen Broy Papovich is a classical singer living in the Austin, Texas area. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland she earned degrees from Towson University in Voice Performance and Women’s Studies. She earned a Masters of Music from the University of Arizona and has made a career of singing and teaching voice. An active recitalist, Papovich has performed in professional choirs and opera companies around the United States.
Webinar hosting presenter
Rain Nox is a composer and performer in Austin, TX. She holds a degree in music composition from the University of Texas. Her works include musical theatre, art songs, one act operas, and choral works, as well as instrumental works. In addition to music, she is passionate about the environment and earned a doctorate in Environmental Geography. Learn more about Rain Nox at www.rainnox.com
Webinar hosting presenter Altana West
Program Coordinator
Program Coordinator Altana “Tane” West came to the Alice Paul Institute in 2019 to support Centennial celebrations for 100 years of women having the right to vote. New to the world of non-profit work, West became passionate about equality through her escapades in over thirty countries across six continents.

With a B.A. in Law and Justice from Rowan University, she hopes to one day pursue policy writing at the local level. Alice Paul is her inspiration and she could not feel more honored getting to hold this position with API.
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