| BLM | Black Opera Productions Announces BLACK OPERA LIVE | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 05:02 pm EDT 06/24/20 | |
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| BLACK OPERA PRODUCTIONS ANNOUNCES BLACK OPERA LIVE A WEEKLY LIVE SHOW FEATURING AMERICA’S BLACK OPERA STARS OFTODAY HOSTED BY KENNETHOVERTON New York, NY – Black Opera Productions is proud to present Black Opera Live, a weekly live broadcast featuring candid conversations and career chats with Black American opera stars of today. Join host Kenneth Overton on Instagram Live @blackoperafilm on Mondays at 7pm EDT from June 1 through August31. The most recent episode is available here. The global pandemic may have closed the world’s opera stages for now, but America’s Black opera stars are eager to share their voices in conversation, in support of Black Opera, a feature documentary seeking investments and now in development that celebrates the extraordinary careers of six African American singers who broke through the classical color line to become operatic legends. On Black Opera Live, guests discuss their career path, being a Black artist in America today, how they were inspired by the artists in Black Opera, and what they are doing now amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. Overton, a New York-based baritone, founder of Opera Noir, and Associate Producer of the Black Opera documentary film, gets up close and personal with his guests in an entertaining and informative style guaranteed to make you smile. Guests include J’Nai Bridges (June 22), Laquita Mitchell (June 29), Errin Brooks (July 6), Chauncey Packer (July 13), John Holiday (July 20), Sidney Outlaw (July 27), Jasmine Habersham (August 3), Reginald Smith Jr. (August 10), Adrienne Danrich (August 17), Kevin Short (August 24) and Marsha Thompson (August 31). For more information and for updates on the lineup of guests throughout the summer, follow @blackoperafilm on Instagram and Facebook. @blackoperafilm # # # ABOUT BLACK OPERA FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY Black Opera Productions LLC is pleased to confirm the start of principal photography on their feature length documentary film, Black Opera. Featuring legendary Black American opera greats Leontyne Price, Grace Bumbry, Simon Estes, George Shirley, Martina Arroyo, and Jessye Norman, the film will combine interviews with the artists and archival performance and footage to document how these six Black artists overcame racial restrictions amid the tumult of the Civil Rights movement in 1960s America to become international superstars on the world’s leading operatic stages. Individually, each singer has enriched the American cultural landscape and inspired new generations of artists to pursue careers in opera. The power of their collective achievement, as the first generation of Black American artists to triumph in classical opera, surpasses the luster of their individual careers, and is of immense importance to opera, and to the arts in America. Black Opera is helmed by Jonathan Estabrooks (Director), who is himself a Juilliard-trained operatic baritone, and Miranda Plant (Producer)a New York-based filmmaker and producer (When We Grow Up, Greater Good). Crystal Whaley (Emmy-Winning Producer, ”Sesame Street”; Drive By: A Love Story), Kenneth Overton (Associate Producer, opera baritone and founder of Opera Noir), and Katherin Castro (Director of Photography, When We Grow Up; American Dharma). Black Opera began principal photography in January 2020, interviewing Martina Arroyo on set in New York. In early June, an interview with George Shirley was completed via Zoom, the global pandemic having temporarily suspended on set and location filming. Dates for interviews with Simon Estes and Grace Bumbry are still to be confirmed. Black Opera is actively seeking investors to complete production. |
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