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Free to Sing Performance Guide
An educational packet designed to help prepare patrons to see, hear and enjoy the performance of Free to Sing. (PDF 1.4 MB)
Commemorative Program
Includes Performance Program, Program Notes, Synopses of Free to Sing and The Doctor of Alcantara, Historical Timeline, World Premiere Production Cast and Crew Credits and Bios, and World Premiere Production Donor Information. ( PDF
2 MB)
ALL MATERIALS Copyright 2008, Strathmore
Commissioned by Strathmore, Free to Sing charts the advancement of the Colored American Opera Company, both the first opera company in the District of Columbia and the first African-American company in the United States, as they use their musical talent to raise money for their church community and build schools for their children in the 1870s. Free to Sing focuses on the musical accomplishments of the Opera Company with an introductory narrative written by Strathmore’s artistic director Shelley Brown and Michael Rosenberg. The performance concludes with a presentation of the rarely performed landmark operetta, Julius Eichberg’s The Doctor of Alcantara.
WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE
Saturday, February 16, 2008 at 8 p.m.
The Music Center at Strathmore
WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION SPONSOR
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