VIDEO: Sixty Black Opera Singers Perform 'Lift Every Voice and Sing'

By: Stephi Wild Jun. 20, 2020

Sixty Black opera singers joined forces yesterday for a virtual rendition of "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

The video was created in honor of Juneteenth.

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When I read that the Met, in the program notes for James Robinson’s production of PORGY AND BESS, called it “a supremely American operatic masterpiece” I couldn’t help but think of Stephen Sondheim’s answer (perhaps apocryphal) when he was asked whether SWEENEY TODD was an opera or a musical: “If it’s done in a theatre, it’s a musical; if it’s in an opera house, it’s an opera.”

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