Angela Brown: "Opera...from a Sistah's Point of View"

The program showcases the soprano’s formidable singing while making the material accessible to audiences with little or no exposure to opera or classical music. Through wry, candid explanations of opera plots that provide a context to the performances that is contemporary and colloquial, Brown invites young and untrained audiences to engage with an artistic medium to which they may never have felt connected.

Thank you for your interest in this event! Due to popular demand, the seats of this event are sold out. You are invited to add your name to our waiting list below. Should a seat become available, we can reach out to you and confirm your attendance. If you'd like to join us Thursday night, we will be opening up available seats to our waiting list at 7:25 p.m. There will also be a second room set up to view the concert remotely. All guests are invited to join Ms. Brown at a reception following the performance.

About Angela Brown

Brown has performed in operatic roles on stages around the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, the National Opera of Paris, Venice’s Teatro de Fenice, and many more. Her 2004 Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida was spectacularly well received, leading to a New York Times review that proclaimed “At last an Aida,” and a front-page Timesprofile a week later that called her emergence from an understudy role “perhaps the opera season’s most appealing story.” Brown has earned international acclaim not only for her classical turns in operas by Verdi, Strauss, Wagner, and Puccini, but for her performances of gospel and sacred music as well as for roles in modern works such as Bess in George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Cilla in Richard Danielpour and Toni Morrison’s Margaret Garner.