"Black musical creators from my musical lineage are shot through a score that is nevertheless firmly situated at a crossroads of the folk and western classical traditions."
@rhiannongiddens
"The world of the opera is a world where the spirits of ancestors communicate with the living. Throughout the opera, you see glimpses of a vividly dressed dancer, Jermaine McGhee, swirling gracefully in the background as the Ancestral Figure."
@sfclassicalvoice
In this scene from Act II, the enslaved people of the Own plantation find time to dance and have a moment of pure joy.