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MusicalAmerica - i Breathing Free: /i Heartbeat Opera s Most Relevant, Remarkable Moment

MusicalAmerica - i Breathing Free: /i Heartbeat Opera s Most Relevant, Remarkable Moment
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How Moonlight and Solange inspired an opera film centering Black artists

How Moonlight and Solange inspired an opera film centering Black artists Makeda Easter © (Heartbeat Opera) Bass-baritone Derrell Acon performs Songs to the Dark Virgin, part of Heartbeat Opera s visual album Breathing Free. (Heartbeat Opera) One striking image from French singer Yseult’s dark and moody “Noir” music video a shirtless dancer wearing a diamond choker, diamond earrings and a red do-rag became a source of inspiration for filmmaker Anaiis Cisco. In her music video “Songs to the Dark Virgin,” bass-baritone Derrell Acon transforms into a character inspired by “Noir.” Opening in soft focus, Acon adorns his body in a chunky diamond necklace, gray fabric and a red do-rag, moving gently as he sings the 1941 work composed by Florence Price, with text from Langston Hughes’ poem of the same name.

Moonlight and Solange inspire Black artists opera film

Heartbeat Opera’s “Breathing Free” weaves music from Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” spirituals and works by Florence Price, Harry T. Burleigh and Anthony Davis.

Heartbeat Opera s Breathing Free delivers passion, heartache, and hope behind each breath

BWW Review: BREATHING FREE at Home Computer Screens

On the evening of February 10, 2021, The Broad Stage presented Breathing Free, an auditory and visual online love letter to freedom produced by Heartbeat Opera to tell the stories of those who who have experienced various versions of imprisonment. Heartbeat Opera describes its mission as follows: From the drama at the core of each work, Heartbeat Opera grows vivid theatrical worlds through revelatory adaptations, radical rearrangements, and ingenious design. Through an inquisitive collaborative process with a diverse community of artists, Heartbeat breaks down traditional barriers to reimagine opera for artists and audiences of the twenty-first century. Heartbeat s program included: the traditional Spirituals There s a Balm in Gilead, and Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Harry T. Burleigh s Lovely Dark and Lonely One, Malcolm s aria from X,

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