Opera initially conceived in collaboration with Julia Bullock. Music by Joel Thompson, libretto by Andrea Davis Pinkney, based on the children’s picture book by Ezra Jack Keats. HGO Artistic and Music Director Patrick Summers conducts. HGO Studio artist and soprano Raven McMillon takes on the role of Peter, and director Omer Ben Seadia brings the wonder and magic of the boy’s wintry world to life. Join Peter, a young boy out exploring the city alone for the first time, as he experiences the delights of crunching, sliding, and playing in a fresh snowfall and, along the way, learns some truths about life. Opening weekend of blackmaninoffs The Snowy Day was a great success Our run goes. The story comes to life for the holidays in this anticipated world premiere opera from the brilliant creative duo of composer Joel Thompson and librettist Andrea Davis Pinkney. Ezra Jack Keats’s award-winning, ever-popular work from 1962, The Snowy Day, was the first mainstream children’s book to feature a Black boy as its protagonist. Relive the joy and wonder of childhood with a story as fresh and lovely as a new coat of snow.

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