Concert Series ~ Sanctuaries

Apr 23-25, 2020 at 7:30pmNorth Warehouse | 723 N Tillamook St, Portland

Gentrification in Portland and the city’s redlining past go under the microscope in Darrell Grant’s jazz opera, Sanctuaries, a new work commissioned and produced by Third Angle New Music. This world premiere, site-specific opera is composed by critically acclaimed jazz pianist Darrell Grant (who ‘Gramophone’ has called “a composer of substance”), with libretto by two-time National Poetry Slam Individual Champion Anis Mojgani and stage direction by LA-based opera director Alexander Gedeon. Blending elements of jazz, spoken word, and devised theater, Sanctuaries speaks to the experience of displaced residents of color in Portland's historically black Albina district. 

Work DARRELL GRANT | Sanctuaries 

Creative TeamDARRELL GRANT | composer and co-creatorANIS MOJGANI | librettist and co-creatorALEXANDER GEDEON | director and co-creatorSARAH TIEDEMANN | music director EZRA WEISS | conductor YUKI IZUMIHARA | set designer CARL FABER | lighting designer BRANIC HOWARD | sound engineerALISON…