An ensemble of 11 Black performers are lined up onstage (kneeling and standing). The set captures a south-side barbershop, with Black Lives Matter posters, photos of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Jordan, and other icons on the walls.

It’s been said that the soul of opera is its music, so in the case of The Factotum—Will Liverman and DJ King Rico’s original piece that is a loose take on Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville—hip-hop is at its beautiful core.  The MTV generation, or hip-hop fans of a certain age, can recall the […]

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