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Portland Opera Presents Anthony Davis's The Central Park Five

Mar. 10, 2022

Portland Opera presents Anthony Davis's The Central Park Five on March 18, 20, 24, and 26 at the Newmark Theatre in Portland, Oregon. The production is directed by Nataki Garrett and conducted by Kazem Abdullah.

Portland Opera describes the work:

The Central Park Five, set to a libretto by Richard Wesley, chronicles the stories of five Black and Latino teenagers who were falsely accused of rape and assault, and coerced into confession. After serving prison sentences for crimes they did not commit, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise were exonerated through DNA evidence. Anthony Davis won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Music for this opera. Musician Jon Batiste, who served as a Pulizer adjudicator that year, noted that the work “skillfully transforms a notorious example of contemporary injustice into something empathetic and hopeful.”


(Long Beach Opera - The Central Park Five -Trailer)


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Anthony Davis
The Central Park Five (2019)
opera in three acts
Libretto (Eng.) by Richard Wesley
1.1(bsax).1.1-1.1.10-2perc(I: vib, mar, timp; II: drum set, mar)-pno.kurzweil-str(min 1.1.1.1.1)
120'

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