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This uplifting Digital Short sees a dynamic assembly of artists—mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis, composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson, filmmaker Jérémy Adonis, fashion designer Allan Virgo, and dancer Lateef Williams—unite in a joyous celebration of Black art, Black bodies, and Black consciousness.

Gabriela Lena Frank’s Las cinco lunas de Lorca commemorates the assassination of poet Federico García Lorca by Nationalist forces in the early days of the Spanish Civil War. Frank delivers a haunting tapestry of music, poetry, and dance.
 

Composer Tamar-kali presents a musical and cinematic triptych of three iconic poems from the turn of the 20th century through the Harlem Renaissance: Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask," Langston Hughes's "I, Too" and Claude McKay's "If We Must Die."

A long overdue conversation on racial disparity and inequality in the opera world, led by mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges