{"id":17007,"date":"2020-10-27T23:40:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=17007"},"modified":"2020-11-02T12:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T12:47:34","slug":"tenor-lawrence-brownlee-discuss-diversity-in-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/tenor-lawrence-brownlee-discuss-diversity-in-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenor Lawrence Brownlee discusses diversity in opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lawrence-Brownlee.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"\" data-large_image_width=\"670\" data-large_image_height=\"892\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17008\" src=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lawrence-Brownlee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lawrence-Brownlee.jpg 670w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lawrence-Brownlee-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLawrence Brownlee is busy preparing for the November 13 release of this new album, \u201cAmici e Rivali\u201d, where his soaring tenor, alongside Michael Spyres\u2019, will pay homage to Rossini\u2019s male arias and duets that are featured in seven of the composer\u2019s 1800s operas. But in a year that also sparked conversations around racial justice\u2014in America, in the arts, and, by proxy, in the world of opera\u2014and Brownlee, as one of the nation\u2019s most famed Black tenors, has been an outspoken advocate for this cause.<br \/>\nRead the full piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2020\/10\/lawrence-brownlee-amici-e-rivali-album-profile\/?fbclid=IwAR1Om3r3z9N4hYQqJw5bB_XTcraT6CPxcHOuF_kD39r6ChCi0936JA50p54\">Observer.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Brownlee is busy preparing for the November 13 release of this new album, \u201cAmici e Rivali\u201d, where his soaring tenor, alongside Michael Spyres\u2019, will pay homage to Rossini\u2019s male arias and duets that are featured in seven of the composer\u2019s 1800s operas. But in a year that also sparked conversations around racial justice\u2014in America,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[438],"class_list":["post-17007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","tag-lawrence-brownlee","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17037,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007\/revisions\/17037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}