The 2020 Best New Opera winner by the Music Critics Association of America, Blue, is coming to Seattle Opera.
Created by Tazewell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori, Blue tells the story of love, loss, church, and sisterhood. Blue depicts a young couple celebrating the joy of family with the birth of their son. Later, they lean on close-knit community in the wake of their son’s death at the hands of a police officer, according to a Seattle Opera press release.
“I did not want to write about a family that was struggling,” Thompson said in the release. “There has been enough of Black struggle and dysfunction on the screen and stage: absent fathers and desperate single mothers barely surviving. I wanted to show a positive household moving forward. In Blue, the mother is educated and talented with equally talented and educated girlfriends. Surrounding the father, a police officer, are his best friends, fellow police officers, men who are responsible, wonderful, aspiring fathers to their children.”
Blue will be at the Seattle Opera until March 12.
