Saturday, February 23, 2019

John Malveaux: GoodBlackNews.org: Met...to Hire All-Black Chorus for...“Porgy And Bess”

Eric Owens and Angel Blue

John Malveaux of 
writes:

Amazing Metropolitan Opera casting of Porgy & Bess

Good Black News

Feb. 21, 2019

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

According to washingtonpost.com, The Metropolitan Opera in New York plans to hire an all-Black outside chorus for its first presentation in nearly thirty years of ”Porgy and Bess,” which opens the Met’s season on September 23.

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Performers Eric Owens and Angel Blue (pictured above) head the opening-night cast, which will be conducted by David Robertson and includes Denyce Graves, Latonia Moore, Golda Schultz and Ryan Speedo Green.

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