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Toledo Opera Announces Black Lives-Inspired “Blue”

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Toledo Opera is proud to announce that it will be producing “Blue” in February of 2022.  “Blue” follows the story of a Black couple in contemporary Harlem. The father, a police officer, worries about his teenage activist son while questioning his own identity as a "Black man in blue.”  When the son is killed by a fellow officer, the family turns to the church and community for answers and the father struggles with his desire for revenge on the cop who shot his son.


“Blue” just received the Award for Best New Opera from the Music Critics Association of North America. “Blue” is a collaboration between playwright/director Tazewell Thompson and Tony Award - winning composer Jeanine Tesori. The world premiere was at Glimmerglass Festival in 2019. The opera examines racial injustice from both a personal and institutional perspective. Thompson explains, "I wrote it from an obsessive need and sense of responsibility to tell an intimate story behind the numbing numbers of boys and men who are killed.”
 

Executive Director of Toledo Opera, Suzanne Rorick says "Opera is about telling powerful stories, and *Blue *continues this tradition with a moving and personal story that is relevant to today." Toledo Opera also plans to develop a series of community programming that centers around the experiences of Toledoans of color, and those directly impacted by police violence.   “Blue” will be performed at the Valentine Theatre on February 11 & 13, 2022. Tickets are not yet on sale.

 

 

   
   


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