“Empire” is ending after this season, but writer-producer Felicia D. Henderson and co-star Nicole Ari Parker are hoping to keep the family music drama game going at Fox. As Deadline reports, “Opus,” centered on a renowned conductor played by Parker, has received a script commitment with penalty at the network. Henderson wrote the project and both women will exec produce.

“Classical and urban music will clash when Willie Mae Gray (Parker), Europe’s most celebrated and only African American conductor, suddenly returns to Baltimore to reinvent her hometown’s crumbling symphony orchestra,” the source teases. Meanwhile, Willie will try to reconnect with her teen son, “an underground MC on the rise.”

“Opus” will be a 20th Century Fox TV and Fox Entertainment co-production. Henderson is under at deal at the former.

You can catch Parker as Giselle in the sixth and final season of “Empire,” airing Tuesdays on Fox. Among her previous credits are “The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love,” “I’m Dying Up Here,” and “Younger.”

Henderson has penned several episodes of BET’s college-set drama “The Quad,” which she co-created. She developed, exec produced, and directed for Showtime series “Soul Food,” on which Parker starred. Henderson’s other writing and producing credits include “The Punisher,” “Underground,” “Gossip Girl,” “Everybody Hates Chris,” and “Moesha.”