The Glimmerglass Festival's video: Blue in Memoriam

With the support of The Glimmerglass Festival, the “Blue” casts of The Glimmerglass Festival and Washington National Opera joined for a poignant musical offering from the Music Critics Association of North America’s Best New Opera of 2020. Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s opera celebrates and uplifts Black love, families, and communities, and reveals the devastating effects when the worst comes to pass. This living memorial, led by mezzo-soprano Briana Hunter and bass Kenneth Kellogg, honors the pain of a long list of victims and calls for a just, safer world for Black Lives. The casts and Festival invite you to join us in supporting the following organizations: 100 Black Men of America, Inc 100blackmen.org Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) www.antipoliceterrorproject.org Black Alliance for Just Immigration baji.org Black Organizing Project blackorganizingproject.org Black Trans Advocacy Coalition blacktrans.org Black Visions Collective www.blackvisionsmn.org Color of Change colorofchange.org Communities Against Police Brutality www.cuapb.org Fair Fight fairfight.com NAACP www.naacp.org NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund www.naacpldf.org Newark Boys Chorus School www.nbcs.us Reclaim the Block www.reclaimtheblock.org Tamir Rice Foundation www.tamirericefoundation.org The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) www.aclu.org The Bail Project bailproject.org The Innocence Project www.innocenceproject.org The Loveland Foundation thelovelandfoundation.org The Okra Project www.theokraproject.com Trayvon Martin Foundation www.trayvonmartinfoundation.org Until Freedom untilfreedom.com When We All Vote www.whenweallvote.org “The Talk” and “Lay My Burden Down” from Blue Written by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson Published by G. Schirmer, Inc. (ASCAP) o/b/o itself and Domenico Music Notes (ASCAP) Produced by: Briana Hunter, Kenneth Kellogg, and The Glimmerglass Festival Performers: Mia Athey Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser Joshua Blue Martin Luther Clark Joshua Conyers Aaron Crouch Nicholas Davis Edward Graves Camron Gray Gordon Hawkins Briana Hunter Allen Michael Jones Kenneth Kellogg Brea Renetta Marshall Simone Z. Paulwell Rehanna Thelwell Ariana Wehr Conductor/Music Director: Kevin Miller Editor: Lucas Godlewski Sound Engineer: Joel Morain Cast Photo: Karli Cadel This offering is made possible by a generous donation from Denise R. Sobel. The development of Blue and its 2019 Glimmerglass Festival world premiere production was made possible by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, OPERA America’s Opera Fund, New Music USA, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Amphion Foundation, and with major production support from Betsy and Ed Cohen, Eugene and Jean Stark, and Jacqueline B. Mar.