Name: Lalovavi
Start: 2025-06-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-06-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Cincinnati Music Hall

Organization

Admin

Cincinnati Opera

Stage director

Kimille Howard

Dramaturge

Conductor

Kevin Miller

English

Lalovavi

Cincinnati

United States

Cincinnati Music Hall

Springer Auditorium

Lalovavi: Lalovavi Day, K.

Public

Alejandro Alberto Giess Sarmiento

Approved

Cincinnati Opera is thrilled to announce the first work in its groundbreaking new initiative, The Black Opera Project: LALOVAVI, which will premiere at Cinci...

Set in the year 2119, we follow the journey of Persephone, the youngest teenage daughter of the Primus of Atlas, formerly the city of Atlanta. Currency and status in Atlas are determined based on the presence of Syndicus, a rare gene that promotes vitality and longevity. When Persephone is found to possess this gene, she is betrayed by her family and must run for her life. She is thrust into an epic adventure, uncovering a hidden past that leads her to discover love’s true meaning and the power to determine her own destiny.  

*Tut is a language that is indigenous to Black Americans and passed down from their enslaved ancestors, who developed Tut as a mechanism for learning how to read and write when it was illegal for them to do so. The title of the opera, “lalovavi,” is the Tut word for “love.”

CREATIVE TEAM
Kevin Day // Composer
Tifara Brown // Librettist
Kimille Howard // Stage Director & Dramaturg
Kevin Miller // Conductor

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Crew