The Snowy Day is Now an Opera
Oh, I love this! The Snowy Day — that ubiquitous 1962 picture book by Ezra Jack Keats — has been transformed into an opera, now at the Houston Grand Opera. The Snowy Day is the most-checked-out book in the history of the New York Public Library, btw.
According to Andrea Davis Pinkney, a children's book author who wrote the libretto: “We are waking up to the idea that opera is for everyone...We are waking up to the fact that, yes, this is your story, and your story, and my story, and our story.”
Further in this NYT article: “It’s about a loving family who happens to be a family of color. That is the universal nature of ‘The Snowy Day.’”
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