"Terence Blanchard knows from experience that an opera that sounds and looks different from the classic repertory can bring new audiences to an old art form. 'An elderly African American man came up to me' after a performance of Blanchard's jazz-infused opera Champion in 2013, the trumpeter/bandleader recalled, 'and he said: Man, if this is […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM on June 23, 2019