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December graduate triumphant after 18 years

December 6, 2021

When Lenora Bradley crosses the KFC Yum! Center stage on Dec. 17 for December Commencement 2021, the 37-year-old will celebrate a winding 18-year journey toward a degree that her late grandmother could have only dreamed about.

Opera exploring gender identity wins Grawemeyer music award

December 6, 2021

Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for “Orlando,” an opera based on a Virginia Woolf novel about a gender-switching poet whose adventures span more than three centuries.

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Opera exploring gender identity wins Grawemeyer music award

December 6, 2021

Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for “Orlando,” an opera based on a Virginia Woolf novel about a gender-switching poet whose adventures span more than three centuries.