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

Eric Owens and Angel Blue

(via metopera.org)

John Malveaux of 

www.MusicUNTOLD.com 

writes:

Amazing Metropolitan Opera casting of Porgy & Bess

https://goodblacknews.org/2019/02/21/ny-metropolitan-opera-to-hire-all-black-chorus-for-fall-revival-of-porgy-and-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.