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“Fred and I decided to dedicate a season to Black artists because all of our senior management team are technically ‘racial’ outsiders,” Marchment explains in the company’s season brochure.

The company has rebuilt itself after the departure of its executive artistic director, Kate Sain, in October, as well as the February cancellation of the remainder of the 2021-22 season by her replacement, who cited “a change in artistic vision.” All of the performances will take place there. Owens and new artistic director Ella Marchment revealed the schedule at The Hall on Little Rock's West Ninth Street, which was the center of Little Rock’s Black business district in the first half of the 20th century.

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The season will offer one fully staged opera one concert version of a full opera a “Masked Gala” with internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves as its headliner a recital by soprano Takesha Meshe Kizart-Thomas honoring Black opera stars and jazz luminaries and a “Divas in the Rock” fundraiser paying tribute to the late singer Whitney Houston.Įverything this season will feature either a Black composer, a Black cast or a Black featured act, or all of the above. Opera in the Rock, Little Rock’s reconstituted professional opera company, will be “the only opera company in the United States dedicating its entire season to build the Black experience,' said Fred Owens, the company's president and chief executive officer, during Wednesday's announcement of the 2022-23 season.

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