WHEN:
FEBRUARY 3-4, 2025
WHERE:
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall
Shops at Columbus Circle/Broadway
60th Street, NYC
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...Artistic Director Ted Sperling leads the 120–member MasterVoices Chorus and 12 cast members in the New York premiere of the acclaimed opera, Blind Injustice, with music by Scott Davenport Richards and libretto by David Cote. Blind Injustice tells the true story of the Ohio Innocence Project’s work to overturn the convictions of six men, women, and teens who were wrongly imprisoned for violent crimes they didn’t commit. The opera is based on the book of the same name by Mark Godsey and the casework by the Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati College of Law..."
CAST:
Christian Pursell, baritone, PROSECUTOR
Joshua Dennis, tenor, DEFENSE ATTORNEY
Victoria Okafor, soprano, ALESHA
Reilly Nelson, soprano, NANCY SMITH
Orson Van Gay II, tenor, LAURESE GLOVER
Phillip Bullock, baritone, DERRICK WHEATT
Miles Wilson-Toliver, baritone, EUGENE JOHNSON
Thomas Capobianco, tenor, CLARENCE ELKINS
Eric Shane Heatley, baritone, RICKEY JACKSON
Briana Hunter, mezzo-soprano, DERRICK’S MOTHER/ENSEMBLE
Marc Kudisch, baritone, EARL MANN/ENSEMBLE
Joseph Parrish, baritone, EARL MANN’S CELLMATE/EDWARD VERNON/ENSEMBLE
CREATIVE TEAM:
Composer | Scott Davenport Richards
Librettist | David Cote
Based on the book Blind Injustice by Mark Godsey and casework by the Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati College of Law
Director and Dramaturg | Robin Guarino
Conductor | Ted Sperling
