The Boston Landmarks Orchestra has announced its 2024 Summer Concerts. The season will open with a Juneteenth concert and will feature works from Eubie Blake, Florence Price, William Grant Still, Jessie Montgomery, and more. The concert will feature the Castle of our Skins String Quartet, violinist Maxwell Fairman, and soprano Brianna J. Robinson. Performance Date: June 15, 2024 Christopher Wilkins conducts {…}
Detroit Opera has announced the five singers who will train in Detroit Opera’s Resident Artist Program during the 2024–25 season. The company’s new Resident Artists are Soprano Brianna J. Robinson, mezzo-soprano Kendra Faith Beasley, tenor River Guard for a second year, and baritones Cole Bellamy and Cameron J. Rolling. The five were chosen from more than 830 artists who applied {…}
Boston Lyric Opera is set to present a new production of “The Anonymous Lover” by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The premiere includes a new adaptation by Obie Award-winning Boston playwright Kirsten Greenidge that mixes English dialogue with the original French singing. Told in two acts over 90 minutes with no intermission, the opera will star Nardus Williams as Léontine, Omar {…}
Castle of Our Skins will present Tania León’s “Oh Yemanja” on Nov. 27, 2022, at Tanglewood’s Learning Institute. The showcase will feature soprano Brianna J. Robinson, flutist DeShaun Gordon-King, cellist Francesca McNeely, and pianist David Coleman. The program will also feature Andre Myers’ “Falling Skyward,” Powell Perry’s “The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’llah,” Perkinson’s Calvary Ostinato from “Black Folksongs and Lamentations,” {…}
Boston Lyric Opera continues its new podcast “At Its (s)Core,” with this week’s episode featuring African-American soprano Brianna J. Robinson, and Cuban-American mezzo Zaray Rodriguez, as they discuss their experience as artists of color in the opera world. The bi-weekly podcast series is available for listening on the company’s website, as well as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. {…}