Empire's Nicole Ari Parker to star as an orchestra conductor in Fox music drama Opus

Variety

Empire writer and consulting producer Felicia D. Henderson is writing and executive producing Opus. According to Variety the potential series stars Parker as Willie Mae Gray, "Europe’s most celebrated and only African American conductor, who suddenly returns to Baltimore to reinvent her hometown’s crumbling symphony orchestra, while attempting to rebuild the relationship with her teenage son, an underground MC on the rise."