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I Dream
Cast Visits Our Brothers Place
Sojourners Truth Staff
Mere days before the world
premiere of I Dream, an opera recounting the last 36
hours in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, the cast of
the opera stopped by Our Brothers Place on Wednesday, March
28 to dine and mingle with a few of the city’s music lovers.
Derrick Davis, who sings
the part of MLK; Laquita Mitchell (Coretta Scott King);
Victor Ryan Robertson (Hosea Williams); Ken Overton (Ralph
Abernathy) and Krysty Swann (Grandma) along with the Opera’s
leadership – Suzanne Rorick, executive director and Loviah
Aldinger, associate director – came for the meet and greet,
sponsored by the Toledo Opera, Paul Hubbard and Fletcher
Word, and featuring entertainment by Karen “Lady K” Harris
and a greeting by Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz.
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I Dream,
a rhythm and blues opera, by composer/librettist Douglas
Tappin, will open on April 6 at the Valentine Theatre, with
additional performances on April 7 at 7:30 p.m. and April 8
at 2 p.m. The opera is part of the North Star Festival
produced by the Toledo Symphony and the Toledo Opera. The
festival began on March 11with a spiritual concert performed
by instrumental quartets – “Romance and Spirituals” – at the
Toledo Lucas County Main Library. On March 16, the famed
soprano Kathleen Battle brought her “Underground Railroad –
A Spiritual Journey” – to the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle.
The final act in the North
Star Festival will be “Classical Ellington” also at the
Peristyle on April 20 and 21 – an orchestral tribute to the
jazz icon.
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