Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Black experience, culture finds its way to The Met stage as opera vows more diversity
PBS NewsHour: History is being made Monday night at The Metropolitan Opera — one of the country’s most important cultural organizations — and for several of the artists involved. Jeffrey Brown has a preview for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
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What is opera but not the musical cry of societal expression, and to see it open up to new voice! Opera within the last 100 years has become a fantastic storytelling element for communities besides Western European aristocrats, and while having an opera written by a Black composer is a long time coming for the Met, I’m ecstatic that it is finally happening. While opera is usually seen as a very snooty and pretentious art form, telling the Black Southern story through it is such a rich and insightful medium. With this being such a historic milestone for the Met, there’s hope that opera is coming back, both from Covid and the fading of the public conscience. The Met is finally giving a stage to voices which it has excluded for over 100 years, and to be living during this transformative and rebirthing period of opera is quite amazing. I hope the Met continues to give stage to underrepresented voices in its art forms, because new voices are exactly what opera needs to survive.
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