Opera Conservatory: American Apollo

American Apollo is a story forged at the crossroad of celebrity; class; race and power in America. Teasing at the impossibly closed page of the personal relationship between two intensely private people with good reasons to be silent: John Singer Sargent, the closeted celebrity image crafter, and public artist and the African – American Artist’s Model; Soldier & Muse Thomas McKeller. This opera tells the tale of individual courage and breathtakin...