Natalia Ramirez appears in the following:
The Founding
Wednesday, April 05, 2023
On December 7, 1842, a group of musicians gathered in the Apollo Rooms in Lower Manhattan and performed – for the first time – as the Philharmonic Society of New York. The first piece...
Otello: Black Handkerchiefs Matter
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Giuseppe Verdi's Otello rose from enslavement to the ranks of army general and marries an aristocratic Venetian woman. It’s difficult to imagine the rich cultural heritage of Otello’...
Otello: Haters
Thursday, March 23, 2023
This week on Every Voice with Terrance McKnight, we go deeper into Giuseppe Verdi's character of the “Moor of Venice." Otello is a celebrated general in the Venetian army, and as a Bl...
Otello: UNMOORED
Thursday, March 16, 2023
“Otello” debuted in Milan in 1887, just two years after European nations gathered in Berlin to agree on a campaign to carve up and colonize the African continent for their own profit....
The Magic Flute: Recycling
Thursday, March 09, 2023
The use of blackface is a dying trend, but it was fundamental to one of the most popular operas of all time, Mozart’s hit comedic opera, “The Magic Flute“. Over the last few decades a...
The Magic Flute: He Said, She Said
Thursday, March 02, 2023
In Mozart's "The Magic Flute," Monostatos is smitten by the white princess Pamina, whom he is supposed to be guarding under the orders of the high priest Sarastro. His desire to love ...
The Magic Flute: Invisible Man
Thursday, February 23, 2023
At over 200 years old, “The Magic Flute” remains a classic opera which continues to be taught, studied, and performed in sold-out venues around the world. But with more than two centu...
The Magic Flute: From Morehouse to the opera house with Monostatos
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Monostatos the Moor in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” is one of the most famous representations of Blackness in opera - a genre with limited representation of characters of African descen...
Terrestrials: The Hybrid
Thursday, October 27, 2022
A fantastical mix of two beasts comes together, thrives, and does something scientists thought it could never do
Terrestrials: The Water Walker
Thursday, October 20, 2022
A muscly earthling figures out a way to stand on the waves.
Terrestrials: The Unimaginable
Thursday, October 13, 2022
An invisible entity journeys to Planet Earth and literally rocks our world.
Terrestrials: The Trio
Thursday, October 06, 2022
Look up in the sky! It is something that scientists thought could never happen.
Terrestrials: The Guardian
Thursday, September 29, 2022
A winged creature frightens countless villagers but may be a kind of protector.
Terrestrials: The Mastermind
Thursday, September 22, 2022
A color-changing creature many people assumed to be brainless outsmarts his human captors.
The End of This Experiment
Thursday, June 02, 2022
For The Experiment’s final episode, a meditation on our strange, sometimes beautiful, often frustrating country
Fighting to Remember Mississippi Burning
Thursday, May 19, 2022
At the height of Freedom Summer, the KKK killed three civil-rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Now, reporter Ko Bragg searches for memories in a town that would rather forget.
Teenage Life After Genocide
Thursday, May 12, 2022
The Experiment revisits the story of Aséna Tahir Izgil, a Uyghur teen adjusting to life in the U.S. after escaping China’s genocide of her people.
Judge Judy’s Law
Thursday, May 05, 2022
For decades, Americans have been bypassing the court system and settling their disputes on Judge Judy. But can people really find justice in a TV courtroom?
Should We Return National Parks to Native Americans?
Thursday, April 14, 2022
The Experiment revisits a conversation with the Ojibwe writer David Treuer, who believes we can make our national parks, sometimes called “America’s best idea,” even better.
Who Belongs in the Cherokee Nation?
Thursday, April 07, 2022
From the time she was a child, Marilyn Vann knew she was Black and she was Cherokee. But when she applied for citizenship in the Cherokee Nation as an adult, she was denied.
