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Carolivia Herron
Librettist
Biography
Carolivia Herron is a retired professor, children's book author, novelist, and librettist. Her work traces classical epic traditions throughout contemporary African American literature and locates convergences and points of contact between Blackness and Jewishness. Her writing is characterized by formal innovation and experimentation and she tells deeply autobiographical narratives that stretch back centuries. Much of her work traces patterns of shared trauma and convergence between Blackness and Jewishness, from the late fifteenth-century Jewish expulsions from Spain and Portugal, to the Atlantic slave trade, to the Holocaust and contemporary racism and antisemitism. Herron wrote the libretto for the opera, "Let Freedom Sing: The Story of Marian Anderson", composed by Bruce Adolphe, which was commissioned and premiered by the Washington National Opera and the Washington Performing Arts Society in 2009.

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Opera for a New America 1994


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Mobile OperaLet Freedom Sing: The Story of Marian Anderson2/4/2023 - 2/4/2023
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