FULL BEATRICE (Ragland) Portland 2022 Naomi Steele, Ty Chiko, Hannah Goodman, Brendan Tuohy
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Beatrice
- Composer: Ragland Dave
- Libretto: Mary McCallum Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: The Hampton Opera Center, Portland, Oregon, Portland Opera
- Recorded: September 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Naomi Steele, Ty Chiko, Hannah Goodman, Brendan Tuohy
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Astrid Morales, PIANO
- Stage Director: Lava Alapai
- Stage Designer: Lex Marcos
- Costume Designer: Wanda Walden
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Dave Ragland
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The year is 1912, and young Beatrice Morrow is a multi-talented scholar and opera singer, who has always longed to perform. Then she meets and falls in love with Edward Cannady, a community leader and young man who urges Beatrice to take on a new role with The Advocate—the first African American newspaper in Oregon. Beatrice shares her expertise and her voice as a civil rights leader, community organizer, and editor—as she builds bridges and blazes trails in our Portland, Oregon history.
Commissioned for our Portland Opera to Go Program (POGO), Beatrice is a 50-minute youth opera inspired by the life and story of Beatrice Morrow Cannady, a prominent leader in Oregon’s cultural community and civil rights movement of the early 1900s. The piece has been written for middle school audiences, focused on fourth through ninth grades.