Compelling baritone Blake Denson (2020 George London Award winner) recently performed Yamadori in Madama Butterfly and Pastor/Kaboom in Fire Shut Up in My Bones at the Metropolitan Opera. His program includes the nine-song Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams written c. 1904 to texts by Robert Louis Stevenson; the four-song cycle I canti della sera (The Songs of the Evening) by Francesco Santoliquido written c. 1910; and Shawn E. Okpebholo's arrangement of the spiritual "Steal Away," among others.
Held Sunday, April 28, 2024.