KINDRED
Opera Workshop
Commissioned by Apollo New Works In Process Series, Grammy Award-winning composer, jazz pianist, arranger and conductor Billy Childs, with writer and librettist Sarah LaBrie, adapt Octavia Butler’s best-selling novel Kindred into an opera.
Set against the backdrop of slavery and racial oppression, Kindred explores themes of power, identity, and the enduring impact of history on the present. The musical score is rooted in the historical traditions of opera, while at the same time be representative of Black American Music.
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Directed by Kimille Howard, Musical Direction by Felix Jarrar and featuring Krysty Swann, Alex Richardson, Rodolfo Girón, Margaret Lattimore, and David Adam Moore.