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Free Thinking: Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite

Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite

Exploring the flow of cultural influences in both directions across the Atlantic.

Peter Brathwaite's show of lockdown photographs recreating the poses of black people portrayed in paintings, plus singers and art travelling between Europe, USA and Latin America.

The singers Enrico Caruso and Elsie Houston, a new opera at ENO and links between musical and artistic  traditions in Latin America, Europe and New York are explored by the academics Ditlev Rindom and New Generation Thinker Adjoa Osei. Plus the baritone Peter Brathwaite has an exhibition of lockdown photographs in which he recreates the poses of black people portrayed in paintings from the last 800 years opening in Bristol (the photographs have also been published in a book) and has a musical work in progress, shown at the ROH, which explores his family's Barbadian history. Shahidha Bari hosts.

Blue runs at English National Opera from April 20th - May 4th 

Adjoa Osei is organising a conference at Trinity College, the University of Cambridge on April 28th called Performing Black Womanhood 

Dr Ditlev Rindom is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at King's College, London currently finishing his first book, Singing in the City: Opera, Italianità, and Transatlantic Exchange, 1887-1914

Peter Brathwaite's Insurrection: A Work in Progress was performed at the Royal Opera House and you can hear more about his research in this Sunday feature for BBC Radio 3 Rebel Sounds: Musical Resistance in Barbados https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hg3t 

An exhibition of his photographs Rediscovering Black Portraiture is at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery from April 14th to July 16th. A book accompanies the show. 

You can find his Essay series about the portraits on BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nbrl 

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