Presented as part of Cincinnati Opera’s Winter Festival
For the first time online, international opera superstar Angela Brown adapts her popular show using humor, storytelling, and song to dispel common opera myths. With her signature wit and larger-than-life personality, Brown demystifies classic opera plotlines and celebrates the diversity of opera’s characters while tracing the beauty of its music through the stories and voices of Black singers. Performing a mix of showstopping arias, poignant art songs, and moving spirituals, Brown is joined for this program by Cincinnati Opera artists mezzo-soprano Briana Hunter, tenor Jamez McCorkle, soprano Victoria Okafor, and baritone Reginald Smith Jr., with Marie-France Lefebvre as pianist. This is the perfect introduction for those who think opera’s not for them, as well as a decidedly original perspective for opera’s biggest fans.