Mann center-A summer collection

Mann Center

We recently attended the MANN's "A summer collection" concert, which celebrates African American opera singers of our time. On the stage, there were large flayers of photos of African American opera pioneers like Marian Anderson and Lyontine Price, off the stage were hundreds of exciting audiences from all background, waiting to witness a spectacular night of opera arias and orchestration. The starts of the night including:

Angela Brown, soprano Adrienne Danrich, soprano

Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano Vinson Cole, tenor Gordon Hawkins, baritone.

The concert began with Marietta Simpson singing "Cabanera" of Bizet's Carmen, then went on to famous arias from "Samson et Dalila" to Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess". I love both Angela Brown's vocal performance and role playing, especially in "Porgy and Bess", the best I've seen yet. It was a great night!