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The Cultural Frontline: Opera singer Joshua Hopkins: Remembering my sister in song

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Opera singer Joshua Hopkins: Remembering my sister in song

08/05/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - The Cultural Frontline, Opera singer Joshua Hopkins: Remembering my sister in song

We speak to Joshua Hopkins, a singer using his voice to call out violence against women.

We speak to Joshua Hopkins, the Canadian baritone who is using his voice to call out violence against women, after the loss of his sister in 2015

Joshua Hopkins is an award-winning Canadian baritone who is using his voice to call out violence against women, after the loss of his sister in 2015. Joshua tells Sophia Smith Galer how collaborating with Booker Prize winning author Margaret Atwood on Songs for Murdered Sisters offers consolation, while opening up conversation about gender-based violence across the world.

Sun and Sea is a Lithuanian production that takes its international audiences on a playful trip to the beach. For The Cultural Frontline, the director Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė and writer Vaiva Grainytė share how they use humour to highlight the climate crisis.

Opera is an enduring, evolving art form, but is everyone invited? Rising stars J’Nai Bridges from the US, Angélica Negrón from Puerto Rico and Adrian Angelico from Norway tell Sophia how they’re opening up the genre to make it more inclusive, on and off stage.

Plus, has a song, a poem or a book ever changed the course of your life? South African soprano Vuvu Mpofu shares the work that set her on a different path.

Presenter: Sophia Smith Galer




(Photo: Joshua Hopkins. Credit: Songs for Murdered Sisters, directed by James Niebuhr)

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