Tenor Lawrence Brownlee discusses diversity in opera

Lawrence Brownlee is busy preparing for the November 13 release of this new album, “Amici e Rivali”, where his soaring tenor, alongside Michael Spyres’, will pay homage to Rossini’s male arias and duets that are featured in seven of the composer’s 1800s operas. But in a year that also sparked conversations around racial justice—in America, in the arts, and, by proxy, in the world of opera—and Brownlee, as one of the nation’s most famed Black tenors, has been an outspoken advocate for this cause.
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