Singer

This performance is free with no tickets required. Free parking is available in the Fatima Family Center parking lots.

EPSG:4326

Faith

Fatima Family Center

Sanctuary Road is based on the remarkable writings of William Still – an abolitionist, historian, and conductor of the Underground Railroad who helped nearly 800 enslaved African Americans escape to freedom. This moving piece tells the stories of Clarissa Davis, who fled Portsmouth, VA, Henry “Box” Brown, who fled Richmond, VA, along with the account of several other men and women who risked it all in pursuit of freedom.

Sanctuary Road

George Mason University

Dominion Energy Center

Harrison Opera House

The Marriage of Figaro

Louis Armstrong Park

Laquita Mitchell is the soprano soloist in Barber's poignant evocation of American life as seen by a young child. Ethel Smyth takes the listener on a journey from nostalgia to mirth to triumph. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson employs an eclectic mix of musical styles; his Sinfonietta No. 1 is by turns searching and pensive, then rushes to a dramatic finale. A brooding piece for strings by Julia Perry begins the concert.

Conductor James Blachly serves as Associate Editor and Orchestral Liaison for the Metro Detroit-based African Diaspora Music Project (ADMP), directed by University of Michigan professor Dr. Louise Toppin. The ADMP database has thus far compiled more than 1,300 published works for orchestra by African diaspora composers, including those by Perkinson and Perry. The DSO is proud to highlight the work of the ADMP with these performances.

Summer Serenade

Kirk in the Hills

Our Lady Star of the Sea

North Ridge Church

The Berman Center for the Performing Arts

Combining operatic drama, emotional solo moments, and the prowess of your BPO with vocals from the combined Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and SUNY Fredonia Chorus, Verdi’s Requiem is a thrilling masterwork that will leave you pinned to your seat!

Verdi's Requiem

Kleinhans Music Hall

Celebrated maestra Marin Alsop makes her May Festival debut with a showcase of composers who crafted the American musical identity. Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is a lyrical dream of the Tennessee summer, while Aaron Copland's "The Promise of Living" rings with the hope of prosperity. The "uncanny radiance" (The New Yorker) of Robert Nathaniel Dett's The Ordering of Moses— a work the Festival premiered in 1937—returns to Music Hall.

Laquita Mitchell

Soprano

Events

Apr 24, 2024

Faith · The Cleveland Orchestra

Jan 26 - Feb 11, 2024

Sanctuary Road · Virginia Opera

Sep 29 - Oct 1, 2023

The Marriage of Figaro · New Orleans Opera

13 - 16 Jul, 2023

Summer Serenade · Detroit Symphony Orchestra

10 - 11 Jun, 2023

Verdi's Requiem · Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Countess Rosina Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro (The marriage of Figaro) by Mozart

New Orleans Opera

Soprano in Requiem by Verdi

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

Soprano in Sanctuary Road by Moravec

Virginia Opera

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