What is a favorite memory from this season?

My favorite memory of the season was when my husband Ivan and I went to see Antoinette Nwandu’s wonderful Pass Over, the first play to open on Broadway after the long pandemic closure. When the voice of God on the intercom said, “Welcome back to the August Wilson Theatre,” the audience erupted in a sustained ovation, the explosive release of 500 dark nights of anxiety and hurt as we reaffirmed ourselves as a community.

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Michael Korie

co-chairs the DG Opera Committee with Deborah Brevoort. His opera libretti include the upcoming Harvey Milk Reimagined, composer Stewart Wallace, at Opera Parallele in San Francisco this spring, and The Grapes of Wrath, composer Ricky Ian Gordon, presented in concert recently at Carnegie Hall. Korie’s lyrics to musicals include the Broadway productions of War Paint and Grey Gardens, composer Scott Frankel. He received the Marc Blitzstein Award from the American Academy of Arts for his work in both musical theatre and opera.

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