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Staging Baldwin and Buckley: Why Opera? Why Now?

Name: Staging Baldwin and Buckley: Why Opera? Why Now?
Start: 2026-03-19T19:00:00
Location: Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis Department of Music

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WashU Music, Center for the Study of Race, and Ethnicity & Equity (CRE²), and Opera Theatre of St. Louis present a performance and roundtable discussion of The Tongue & The Lash by composer Damien Sneed and librettist Karen Chilton, commissioned by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 2021. The Tongue and The Lash imagines the conversation between James Baldwin and William Buckley immediately following the 1965 debate. In the opera, the two men contin...

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Jonathan Heaney

Piano

Washington University in St. Louis Department of Music

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