Name: Niloufar Nourbahksh and Corrine Byrne | We Are Also What We Have Lost
Start: 2024-02-28T20:00:00
Location: Longy School of Music of Bard College

Corrine Byrne

Niloufar Nourbahksh

Longy School of Music of Bard College

When duty clashes with the heart, what do we choose? Mozart’s Idomeneo is a gripping tale of leadership, sacrifice, and staying true to one’s values in the face of impossible choices. Performed with Longy’s signature vitality, this opera holds a mirror to our own struggles and triumphs in navigating power and compassion.

W.A. Mozart’s Idomeneo | Vocal Studies Department

Tracing journeys from swamps and maroon societies to northern and midwestern cities like Detroit, this program explores the Great Migration and the enduring resilience of Black communities seeking freedom, life, and humanity. Works include Undine Smith Moore’s Before I’d Be a Slave, Carlos Simon’s Warmth of Other Suns, and Shawn Okpebholo’s Great Day.

And, Perhaps, To Bloom | Castle of our Skins | Artistic Partner

Freedom is our oldest and noblest pursuit, an ideal that stretches back to humanity’s first days. But our relationship with freedom—how we define it, value it, pursue it—is unique to each of us. Especially freedom.