Far more unique is to blend two distinct works into a cohesive whole.
“I just love ... how they’re interspersing ‘Old Maid and the Thief’ with selections of ‘Porgy.’ It has this way of bringing this cultural context of just how much brilliance and amazing composition and artistry was coming out of the ’30s, said Hazell, 54, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
“In this country, opera has been presented as an elitist art form,” Smith said. “I think that in itself limits or diminishes the potential for it to reach a broad audience. That is not the way opera was designed. In Italy, everybody sings.”
-Peter Tonguette

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