Of all the courageous figures in the Great Migration, the Pullman Porters of Chicago surely stand alone. Millions of Black Americans made the one-way journey from South to North between 1910 and 1968, ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting the world premiere of safronia, a landmark musical composition commissioned from Chicago’s first Poet Laureate, the interdisciplinary artist avery r. young.

Rooted in blues, gospel, funk, and the call-and-response traditions of the Black church, safronia tells the story of the Booker family’s return to Mississippi to bury their patriarch and reclaim land ...

Chicago’s inaugural poet laureate makes his Lyric mainstage debut with, “safronia,” loosely based on his family’s own Great Migration story. Inside Chicago’s grand Lyric Opera House, world-class ...

One of the operas in the Lyric's spring lineup isn't your typical opera. It's a new musical work by Chicago's first poet laureate Avery R. Young. "Safronia" is described as a "genre-defying" work ...

The new opera "safronia" premieres at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Courtesy of VAM Studio Lyric world premiere The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s season concludes with its premiere of “safronia,” a new opera ...

There are artists who make work, and then there are artists who make history. Avery R. Young sits firmly in the second category. Born and raised on the west side of Chicago, Young has spent 30 years ...

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