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Cincinnati Opera postpones Afrofuturist-themed `Lalovavi' by a year to the summer of 2026

CINCINNATI (AP) 鈥 The Cincinnati Opera has postponed the premiere of the Afrofuturist-themed 鈥淟alovavi鈥 by one year to the summer of 2026.

CINCINNATI (AP) 鈥 The Cincinnati Opera has postponed the premiere of the Afrofuturist-themed 鈥淟alovavi鈥 by one year to the summer of 2026.

The company said Monday the libretto by Tifara Brown is still being worked on, delaying the music composition by Kevin Day.

with a premiere date of June 19, 2025, in conjunction with the Juneteenth holiday. 鈥淟alovavi鈥 means 鈥渓ove鈥 in the , and the three-act work is set in the year 2119.

The second of the three works in the company's Black Opera Project, 鈥淕ood Trouble: The Boy from Troy,鈥 was postponed by a year to the summer of 2027. Inspired by the life of , it has music by Maria Thompson Corley and a libretto by Diana Solomon-Glover.

A third work is to debut in the summer of 2028.

鈥淲e鈥檙e committed to providing each of these important new stories the creative space and resources to achieve their creators鈥 respective visions,鈥 Cincinnati Opera artistic director Evans Mirageas said in a statement. "This adjustment will allow additional time for each opera鈥檚 development and refinement.鈥

The Associated Press

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