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Opera on the James closes its 19th Season at Historic Point of Honor on June 9th at 5:00 with an outdoor family concert sure to delight audiences of all ages. Jobson and Reed return to Lynchburg after February performances at Randolph College and Lynchburg City Schools as part of Randolph’s celebration of Black History Month. Their delightful concert will cover music from The Merry Widow to Annie Get Your Gun, from Die Fledermaus to Spamalot. They will come straight from a Metropolitan Opera performance in Manhattan on Saturday afternoon to sing at Lynchburg's Historic Point of Honor on Sunday. We hope you will bring a picnic and a lawn chair and enjoy a delightful hour of music outdoors! Jamaican-American soprano Dr. Christine Jobson has performed around the world and throughout the United States. She was a featured soloist for two seasons at the Metropolitan Opera in two Grammy-winning productions–Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Terence Blanchard’s acclaimed Fire Shut Up in My Bones, in which she covered the role of Evenlyn. In May 2019, Christine won first place in the pre-professional category of the prestigious George Shirley Vocal Competition. An advocate for the preservation and dissemination of vocal music by African American composers, she was inspired to record By Faith and Nearly Lost: Art Songs by Florence Price; the latter was named one of Opera’ Wire’s “10 Essential & Historic Opera Recordings of Music by Black Composers.” She recently released her first children’s book, Lily’s First Trip to the Opera. Manhattan baritone Markel Reed, a native of Charlotte, NC, has interpreted classic and contemporary works throughout North America and Europe. He originated the role of Chester in the St. Louis premiere of Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones and went on to cover Adult James in the Metropolitan Opera’s production last season. He, too, sang in the Met’s production of Porgy and Bess, in which he covered the role of Lawyer Frazier, and in The Tongue & The Lash, a piece created in the wake of George Floyd’s death, with Opera Theatre of St. Louis in 2021. Other favorite roles include the hard-hitting preacher Parson Alltalk in the updated St. Louis production of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, and the title role in Rossini’s Barber of Seville, which he played just last fall with Virginia Opera. Dr. Emily Yap Chua is chair of Randolph College’s Department of Performing Arts. Described as “remarkably passionate” and “vividly enchanting” by The Daily Tribune and “spirited and movingly expressive” by The Philippine STAR, Chua is sought-after as a speaker, academic, and performer in venues and institutions across the nation. General admission is $35. VIP tickets (reserved prime view area) are $75. Student tickets are $15; Children aged 12 and under who are accompanied by an adult attend at no cost. Limited tickets are available; advance ticket purchase is highly recommended. Please call 434.528.3397 or visit www.operaonthejames.org for more information.
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