is speaking about, but in a much more serious nature,вЂќ she says.ДЇor Hometown To The World, Carmen brought together twelve singers ranging in age from 13 to 17 years of age. Sweet PotatoвЂ¦, the themes in that were about beauty and inclusion and love, and it carries over to what Hometown.

вЂњThis was such an honor for me to be asked to be a part of this really important project.

Carmen is an artist in her own right, a musician, singer, mother, and community activistвЂ“вЂ“identities that coalesce in her work with Hometown To The World.ДЄs the production prepares for its world premiere at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in December 2021, Andrea and Carmen discuss the joys of working with the talented young adults of the chorus and reflect on their deeply personal responses to Composer Laura KaminskyвЂ™s and Librettist Kimberly ReedвЂ™s urgent, ultimately uplifting contemporary opera.Д¬armen is no stranger to OFAVвЂ™s commitment to developing new operatic works, having held the baton, or magic wand as we like to say, for 2019вЂ™s premiere of Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun, the initiativeвЂ™s first-ever commission. MichaelвЂ™s High School in Santa Fe, sheвЂ™s also music director for the Cathedral Basilica where OFAV usually holds its summer concerts, pandemics not withstanding. In addition to her roles as founder and director of the Choral Arts Society at St. ItвЂ™s fitting, then, that host Andrea Fellows-Fineberg and her guest Chorus Master Carmen FlГіrez-Mansi close out this season of Key Change charting a buoyant, optimistic course towards the future.

At its heart, Hometown To The World is a simple story of hope set amongst the emotionally complicated aftermath of a 2008 Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Postville, IAвЂ“вЂ“the largest ever in US history.

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