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Amarillo Opera returns to stage with focus on community enrichment
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AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - The Amarillo Opera returns to the stage this weekend with their performance of âR. S. B. E Remove Shoes Before Entering,â but their entrance back into the Amarillo art scene goes beyond on-stage performances.
âThe core of Amarillo Opera really is the community enrichment. Thatâs what weâre here to do,â Chancelor Barbaree, director of education and outreach for Amarillo Opera. âEducation and outreach really is the heart of this, and we werenât able to do anything this year.â
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the original production of Amarillo Opera’s “Remove Shoes Before Entering” had to be postponed back in November, with the group not knowing at the time when members of the community would be able to see it performed.
However, the opera is making it a priority for this story to be told and for this music to be heard by the Texas Panhandle community, helping opera be reached by members of the community it may not always be accessible to.
The opera will host three performances of Remove Shoes Before Entering at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the concert hall on the Washington Street campus of Amarillo College.
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Posted by Fred Steiner on December 18, 2020 - 6:06am
Bluffton University’s music department will give the 125th performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20, via livestream at www.bluffton.edu/mus.
Soloists are Erin Keesy, soprano; Lauren McAllister, mezzo-soprano; Jason Vest, tenor; and Robert Kerr, baritone.
Erin Keesy, soprano
Keesy has made solo appearances with the Cincinnati POPS orchestra, the Louisville Orchestra, Butler Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra.
She also performed as a young artist with Cincinnati Opera. Keesy made her international solo debut last year in Seoul, South Korea, singing the soprano solos in Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” with the Seoul Oratorio Festival.