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Opera Singer Sumayya Ali Discusses ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors’
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December 10, 2021
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11:10Now PlayingSumayya Ali is a creative powerhouse who is getting ready to reimagine a classic opera play about a teenage disabled boy and baby Jesus and is making sure to put much more melanin in this version.
She worked on Broadway for the last decade in famous musicals such as “Porgy and the Bess.” Now, she is gearing up to direct her first opera play, the 1951 classic “Amahl and the Night Visitors.”
Her version centers its gaze through a Black one and thus has an all-star Black cast and it opens on Dec. 10 in Atlanta.
Ali joins Marc Lamont Hill on “Black News Tonight” to discuss the play and more.
All this and more on “Black News Tonight.”
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