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When most people think of opera, they imagine a red-faced, sweating man or woman on stage, belting out unintelligible lyrics. Think Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in “What’s Opera, Doc?” or maybe even Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep in the eponymous biopic).
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I actually can’t believe the Boston Symphony is putting on this opera in concert. It’s so massive. The cast, everything about it.
Woven throughout the beautiful juxtaposition of Southern spirituals and rich opera, Breath & Imagination tells the story of an artist of color in a world that built on racial stereotypes and oppression.
