Name: Blue
Start: 2022-11-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Organization

Glimmerglass Festival

Maestro

Kwamé Ryan

Diretor de Palco

Tazewell Thompson

Cenógrafo

Donald Eastman

Estilista

Jessica Jahn

Designer de Iluminação

Robert Wierzel

Baixo

Kenneth Kellogg

The Father

Barítono

Will Liverman

The Reverend

Soprano

Vuvu Mpofu

Girlfriends/Congregants

Rehanna Thelwell

Tenor

Martin Mkhize

Policemen/Congregants

Thando Mjandana

Vimbayi Kaziboni

Jonathan Taylor Rush

Mezzo-soprano

Aundi Marie Moore

The Mother

Darius Gillard

The Son

Eric Norbury

Thembinkosi Magagula

Charles Williamson

De Nationale Opera

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Washington National Opera

Orchestra

Residentie Orkest

inglês

Blue

Washington

Estados Unidos

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Amesterdã

Holanda

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Private

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Stage director Tazewell Thompson about the opera Blue | Dutch National Opera

Opera has rarely been as topical as Blue. In Harlem, a black couple anticipates the birth of its first-born son, with both hope and anxiety. The mother worries about her son’s future as she watches him become a young man and enter the world of activism. Meanwhile, the father tries to open his son’s eyes to the realities of 21st century America, whilst simultaneously struggling with his own identity as a police officer, a ‘Black man in blue’. When the parents’ deepest fears come true, they have to find a way to cope with reality.

Stage director Tazewell Thompson about the opera Blue | Dutch National Opera

A powerful portrait of an African-American family
Dutch National Opera presents the European premiere of Blue , an opera by the Tony Award-winning American composer Jeanine Tesori and American librettist and director Tazewell Thompson. Inspired by today's America and black literature, they tell about a community in turbulent times, which finds support and strength in togetherness. A devastating event leads to sadness, but also to connection, in which the shared music plays an important role.

 The opera, which had its world premiere during the Glimmerglass festival in July 2019, was overtaken by reality by the events surrounding George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement that spread around the world and for which countless people took to the streets in Amsterdam. An opera on the cutting edge, which partly because of this won the Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera in 2020.

English

Blue by Tesori, De (2022/2023), Dirigido por Tazewell Thompson,, Regente Kwamé Ryan, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Jonathan Taylor Rush, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, Estados Unidos

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