"Let my people go." Tormented and enslaved, Moses cries to Heaven for freedom - and you can imagine what those words meant to a Black, Canadian-American composer in 1932. Robert Nathaniel Dett transforms a timeless story into a sweeping choral epic, cinematic in scope and blazing with melody and emotion. If you enjoy Elgar, you'll […]
Orchestra 2001 was recently on tour in Louisiana and Mississippi! April 19, 2022 | 2:30 pm, Masterclass with Chrystal E. Williams at Xavier University of Louisiana April 20, 2022 | 12:00 pm (noon) Xavier University of Louisiana Recital Hall, 1 Drexel Drive, New Orleans, LA 70125 FREE and open to the public April 22, 2022 | 10:00 am Jackson State […]
Philip Glass’s mesmerizing modern masterpiece—a smash-hit in its 2019 company-premiere run—returns in Phelim McDermott’s unforgettable production, which brings ancient Egypt to vivid life with striking stage tableaux and a troupe of jugglers. Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo reprises his celebrated turn as the revolutionary pharaoh Akhnaten, with mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb as his wife and queen, Nefertiti. […]
Carlotta in Die Schweigsame Frau - Role and Company Debut - Bard Summerscape 2022
Husband & Wife Duo, Forrópera, share their genre bending musical ingenuity and joy with surrounding communities.
The Chrystal E. Williams Scholarship was founded in 2004 because it was realized that there was a need to help students wishing to pursue a career in the performing arts. It is my hope and dream that in the future young performers will not have to concern themselves with funding for school but will only […]
Husband & Wife Duo, Forrópera, share their genre bending musical ingenuity and joy with at the Community Together celebration held in Washington Square Park (Philadelphia, PA).
While the body of tormented bebop saxophonist Charlie “Yardbird” Parker lies unidentified in a New York City morgue, his ghost travels back to the famed NYC jazz club Birdland, where he struggles to complete his final masterpiece.