BREATHING FREE Trailer

On Juneteenth 2022 we will release the full film of Breathing Free here on YouTube. Join us to watch it then!
Learn more at https://www.heartbeatopera.org/breathing-free

BREATHING FREE: a visual album
featuring excerpts from Beethoven’s Fidelio, Negro Spirituals, and songs by Harry T. Burleigh, Florence Price, Langston Hughes, Anthony Davis, and Thulani Davis

In 2018, Heartbeat collaborated with 100 incarcerated singers in six prison choirs to create a contemporary American Fidelio told through the lens of Black Lives Matter. In 2020 — the year of George Floyd’s murder, a pandemic which ravages our prison population, and the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth — we curate a song cycle, brought to life in vivid music videos, mingling excerpts from Fidelio with Negro Spirituals and songs by Black composers and lyricists, which together manifest a dream of justice, equity... and breathing free.

Видео BREATHING FREE Trailer канала Heartbeat Opera