Explore the connection between music and visual arts at your art museum on January 6 at Super Saturday.
Join Opera Memphis Singers to celebrate the arts and hear the sounds that inspired the art in our special exhibit Black American Portraits. Bring the whole crew to go on a tour in the galleries with talented opera singers, make art in the studio and discover how artists are inspired by music, music is inspired by art and MORE!
The singers will be Handorf Company Artists, Kayla Oderah and Marquita Richardson, joined by Opera Memphis favorite-- baritone Marcus King. Opera Memphis will present excerpts from Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess’, Terrance Blanchard’s ‘Fire Shut up in my Bones’, plus musical settings of Langston Hughes poems by Margaret Bonds, Florence Price, and Ricky Ian Gordon. Tours with them begin at 10:30a.