Opera Memphis preview: ‘The Falling and the Rising’
Stephanie Doche performs in the foreground with the late Chelsea Miller in the background during the 2019 production of "The Falling and the Rising" at Opera Memphis. This year’s production is dedicated to the memory of the Opera Memphis soprano who died of cancer in 2021. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
Žak Ozmo
Žak Ozmo is a cultural connoisseur, music director, scholar, and specialist in the clinical application of music. He feels privileged to write about the culture of our remarkable city. He is on the faculty at Rhodes College and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
“This opera is about empathy. It is about understanding other people’s sacrifice. It is about understanding our responsibility to them, and to each other. It is about things that we forget at our own peril, be it in war, pandemic, our family, our city, our country or the world.”
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