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Cincinnati Opera

The Black Opera Porject creative team: Kevin Day, Tifara Brown, and Kimille Howard

The Black Opera Project Reminds Us That Opera is a Tool to Tell New Stories

In July 2022, I reviewed Fierce for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. The commission by Cincinnati Opera feature...
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A. Kori Hill
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“Castor and Patience” Examines the History of Black Land Ownership in the U.S.

What does it mean to experience history as something that isn’t in the past? In Castor and Patience,...
Author
Amanda Cook
Megan Graves as Rumer, Alicia Russell Tagert as Morgan, Victoria Ellington as Nyomi, and Lauren McAllister as Vesta in Cincinnati Opera’s 2022 production of Fierce--Photo by Philip Groshong

Cincinnati Opera Stages Vibrant and Heartfelt New Opera, “Fierce”

There’s a common lament amongst animation heads: animation is a medium, not a genre. In some ways, o...
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A. Kori Hill
Tracy K. Smith--Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

5 Questions to Tracy K. Smith (librettist, Castor and Patience)

Originally commissioned for Cincinnati Opera’s centennial season in 2020, the much anticipated...
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Amanda Cook
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“Transcendent” Fellow Travelers Premieres at Cincinnati Opera

On Friday, June 17, 2016—less than a week after 49 people were killed at a gay nightclub in Orlando,...
Author
Amanda Cook

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