Thomas Wilkins
Opera Wire
Renée Fleming Headlines The REACH’s 2019 Opening Festival
Nicole Kuchta
The REACH has announced its “inclusive, multi-genre,
multidisciplinary” 2019 Opening Festival, which marks its first-ever
expansion to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. For the
purpose of this article, we focus on opera-related events.
The Festival’s “Opening Day” will “illustrate the
breadth of experience that the REACH is designed to foster,” according
to the press release. More than two-hundred artists will take part in
“The Future Is Now and I Am It: A Parade to Mark the Moment,” curated by
Carrie Mae Weems and The MusicianShip.
Thomas Wilkins will lead the National Symphony Orchestra in an
open-air performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, featuring soloists
from Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program,
the Heritage Signature Chorale, and Stanley J. Thurston’s Community
Chorus.
The day’s performers will also include Bootsy Collins and The Chuck Brown Band, Underground Comedy, the Kronos Quartet, roots singer-songwriter Valerie June, soprano Larisa Martinez, performance poet Jacqueline Suskin, Speech and Arrested Development, and more surprise guests.
Additionally, composers Mason Bates and Daniel Bernard Roumain will “use themed projections and sounds to create an immersive, chill-out lounge space that will remain open throughout the festival.”
The day’s performers will also include Bootsy Collins and The Chuck Brown Band, Underground Comedy, the Kronos Quartet, roots singer-songwriter Valerie June, soprano Larisa Martinez, performance poet Jacqueline Suskin, Speech and Arrested Development, and more surprise guests.
Additionally, composers Mason Bates and Daniel Bernard Roumain will “use themed projections and sounds to create an immersive, chill-out lounge space that will remain open throughout the festival.”
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