My Wings Burned Off Opera Workshop

From the librettist June Carryl: “Oluwatoyin Salau was a kid: 19. She studied cosmetology, started a business in hairdressing, modeled, was homeless, wanted to be a lawyer. A near-regular on the local news in Tallahassee the summer of George Floyd’s murder, she was growing into a significant voice in the Black Lives Matter movement—and she died at the hands of a Black man. She said once, ‘I will die being Black.’ She understood how very much Blac...