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Performer: Tazewell Thompson

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Blue in Amsterdam: aktueller kann Oper nicht sein!

Kenneth Kellogg (Vater) und Darius Gillard (Sohn) © Clärchen and Matthias Baus | Dutch National Opera
Das außergewöhnlich gute Sängerensemble trägt diese aussagekräftige Opernvorstellung bei ihrer europäischen Premiere.
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Raising flags and questioning promises at Philadelphia’s Highmark Mann

The Crossing and the Philadelphia Orchestra © Jordan August Photography, Courtesy of Highmark Mann
Peter Boyer’s oratorio A Hundred Years On, commemorating the centenary of the 1876 World’s Fair, softens the blow of jingoism, looking to an earlier era of hope and broken promise.
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African American spirituals ring out in world premiere of Jubilee

Lisa Arrindell (Ella Sheppard) © Sunny Martini
A world premiere opera about the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the intrepid troupe of African American singers who changed music history. 
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Handel's Xerxes comes to Glimmerglass

Handel’s Xerxes (1738) was part of this year’s “home and homeland” season at Glimmerglass Festival.
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Broadway meets Opera: Lost in the Stars

Emotionally-engaged performance of Weill's Apartheid Opera. 
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Operatic righteous anger or self-indulgence?

A righteous, politically-relevant but musically questionable world premiere of Philip Glass' revised Appomattox.
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