Kenneth Kellogg, Bass
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***World Premiere***
Bulrusher, Logger, Stookey/Davis
August 3,11,15 2024
Bulrusher is a coming of age story about an African-American girl growing up in Northern California’s remote Anderson Valley in 1955.
***House Debut***
Blue, Father, Tesori/Thompson
November 16, 20, 22, 26. December 1, 2025
The moving story of a Black middle-class family in Harlem whose hopes and dreams for their teenage son are shattered when he is shot by a white police officer. Tony-winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s magnificently moving music is matched by Tazewell Thompson’s probing, deeply sensitive libretto.
OperaCreole with Opera Lafayette
*** World Premiere***
Morgaine ou Le Sultan d’Ispahan, Kourouschah
By Edmond Dédé/Louis Brunet
He wrote a grand opera in 1887 called Morgiane ou, Le Sultan d’Ispahan, considered the earliest complete opera score by an African American composer. He couldn’t find a theater to mount it in Bordeaux, so he and his wife moved in with their son, Eugène, who lived in Paris, around 1890. Still, he had no luck finding a theater in the City of Lights that would stage his opera.
Aida, Ramfis, Verdi
April 4 & 6, 2025
At its heart, Verdi’s majestic opera, Aida, is an intimate story of love—forbidden and unrequited—enmeshed in a struggle for imperial power between Egypt and Ethiopia.
***Role Debut***
Porgy and Bess, Crown, Gershwin/Heyward
May 23 - 31, 2025
It’s “summertime, and the livin’ is easy” in Catfish Row, a working-class fishing town in South Carolina. When a murder shakes the community and tempts Bess to return to her drug-filled past, Porgy becomes her unlikely refuge. As a hurricane descends and Bess’ violent old flame returns, she’ll find herself torn between Porgy’s steadfast love and the demons that tempt her.
