FULL BREATHING FREE: A Visual Album USA 2020 Derrell Acon, Curtis Bannister, Kelly Griffin

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: BREATHING FREE: A Visual Album  
• Composer: various  
• Libretto: various  
• Venue & Opera Company: various across USA  
• Recorded: 2020
• Type: Movie
• Singers: Derrell Acon, Curtis Bannister, Kelly Griffin
• Conductor: Dan Schlosberg  
• Orchestra:
• Ballet: Dancers: Randy Castillo, Tamrin Goldberg, Brian HallowDreamz Henry  
• Stage Director: Ethan Heard  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Heartbeat Opera  
• Date Published: 2020  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  DIGITAL PROGRAM

  BREATHING FREE: a visual album featuring excerpts from Beethoven’s Fidelio, Negro Spirituals, and songs by Harry T. Burleigh, Florence Price, Langston Hughes, Anthony Davis, and Thulani Davis

  In 2018, Heartbeat collaborated with 100 incarcerated singers in six prison choirs to create a contemporary American Fidelio told through the lens of Black Lives Matter. In 2020 — the year of George Floyd’s murder, a pandemic which ravages our prison population, and the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth — we curate a song cycle, brought to life in vivid music videos, mingling excerpts from Fidelio with Negro Spirituals and songs by Black composers and lyricists, which together manifest a dream of justice, equity… and breathing free.

  PROGRAMME:

  “Euch werde Lohn” (Act II Trio from FIDELIO)
  Music by Ludwig van Beethoven
  Libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner & Georg Friedrich Sonnleithner
  arr. Daniel Schlosberg
  Performed by Curtis Bannister, Kelly Griffin, Derrell Acon, and the
  BREATHING FREE Band
  Lovely Dark and Lonely One
  Music by Harry T. Burleigh
  Words by Langston Hughes
  Performed by Curtis Bannister and Jason Thomas
  “Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin?” (Leonore’s aria from FIDELIO)
  Music by Ludwig van Beethoven
  Libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner & Georg Friedrich Sonnleithner
  arr. Daniel Schlosberg
  Performed by Kelly Griffin and the BREATHING FREE Band
  “Gott! Welch Dunkel hier!” (Florestan’s aria from FIDELIO)
  Music by Ludwig van Beethoven
  Libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner & Georg Friedrich Sonnleithner
  arr. Daniel Schlosberg
  Performed by Curtis Bannister and the BREATHING FREE Band
  I would not tell you what I know
  from X (THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X)
  Music by Anthony Davis
  Libretto by Thulani Davis
  Story by Christopher Davis
  arr. Sean Mayes
  Performed by Derrell Acon and the BREATHING FREE Band
  Copyright © 1987 by G. Schirmer, Inc. (ASCAP)
  This arrangement © 2020 by G. Schirmer, Inc. (ASCAP) International Copyright Secured.
  All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
  Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
  Traditional
  Performed by Kelly Griffin
  “O welche Lust” (Prisoners’ Chorus from FIDELIO)
  Music by Ludwig van Beethoven
  Libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner & Georg Friedrich Sonnleithner
  arr. Daniel Schlosberg
  Performed by Heartbeat Opera’s FIDELIO Chorus & Band (2018)
  Song to the Dark Virgin
  Music by Florence Price
  Words by Langston Hughes
  Performed by Derrell Acon and Jason Thomas
  Balm in Gilead
  Traditional
  arr. Sean Mayes
  Performed by Kelly Griffin, Derrell Acon, and Curtis Bannister
  Pre- and Post-Show Music:
  “Gut, Kindchen, gut” (Act I Trio from FIDELIO)
  “Mir ist so wunderbar” (Act I Quartet from FIDELIO)
  Music by Ludwig van Beethoven Libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner &
  Georg Friedrich Sonnleithner
  arr. Daniel Schlosberg
  Performed by Kelly Griffin, Derrell Acon, Malorie Casimir, and
  Heartbeat Opera’s FIDELIO Band (2018)

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