Bringing opera to Memphis on a flatbead trailer: A pandemic pivot likely to roll on
Opera Memphis General Director Ned Canty attends an outdoor Collierville neighborhood performance on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Opera Memphis singer Tanisha Ward performs to a small crowd from a flatbed truck during an outdoor Collierville neighborhood performance on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Opera Memphis singer Dane Suarez performs to a small crowd from the flatbed truck during an outdoor Collierville neighborhood performance on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Opera Memphis singer Marcus King performs to a small crowd from a flatbed truck during an outdoor Collierville neighborhood performance on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Taking opera from the concert halls to the streets was not a new notion for Opera Memphis. Their annual “30 Days of Opera” features small pop-up performances in unlikely places, from playgrounds and dog parks to libraries and groceries.
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Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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