{"id":14109,"date":"2024-07-22T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=14109"},"modified":"2024-07-22T23:52:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T23:52:00","slug":"lincoln-center-opera-eric-garner-casts-spotlight-police-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/07\/22\/lincoln-center-opera-eric-garner-casts-spotlight-police-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Center Opera About Eric Garner Casts Spotlight On Police Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14110\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14110\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/07\/The-Ritual-of-Breath-Is-the-Rite-to-Resist.jpg\" alt=\"The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/07\/The-Ritual-of-Breath-Is-the-Rite-to-Resist.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/07\/The-Ritual-of-Breath-Is-the-Rite-to-Resist-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/07\/The-Ritual-of-Breath-Is-the-Rite-to-Resist-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/07\/The-Ritual-of-Breath-Is-the-Rite-to-Resist-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neema Bickersteth and members of the recorded chorus in Movement 1 of The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist, produced by the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth (Photo by Ben DiFlorio)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jonathan Berger\u2019s new chamber opera, The Ritual of Breath is the Rite to Resist, will premiere at Lincoln Center\u2019s Summer for the City festival. The opera commemorates the ten-year anniversary of Eric Garner\u2019s killing at the hands of police.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The scoop:<\/strong> This summer, the Jonathan Berger chamber opera about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killing_of_Eric_Garner\">Eric Garner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ritualofbreath.org\/the-project\">The Ritual of Breath is the Rite to Resist<\/a>, will be performed at Lincoln Center\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincolncenter.org\/series\/summer-for-the-city\">Summer for the City<\/a> festival. With a libretto by the poet Vivee Francis, the opera highlights social injustices as well as the horrors of police violence. The libretto focuses around the daughter of Eric Garner, Erica, while sharing other stories of Black peoples\u2019 deaths at the hands of police. The scor contains homages to jazz and Marvin Gaye, and is accompanied by drawings and paintings by the artist, Enrico Riley. A 90-person choir will be spread across the stage during the performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A bit more:<\/strong> After premieres at Dartmouth College and Stanford University in 2022, the Lincoln Center production will take place in Damrosch Park.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ritualofbreath.org\/artisticteam\">creators of the piece<\/a>, who connected as fellow Prix de Rome recipients, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ritualofbreath.org\/the-project\">hope to spur activism<\/a> as well as to commemorate the lives of Black people killed at the hands of authorities. Those wishing to engage further are invited to visit the opera\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ritualofbreath.org\/partners-1\">community rituals website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Berger\u2019s new chamber opera, The Ritual of Breath is the Rite to Resist, will premiere at Lincoln Center\u2019s Summer for the City festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":14110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,3,80],"tags":[447],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/07\/The-Ritual-of-Breath-Is-the-Rite-to-Resist.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14111,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109\/revisions\/14111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14109"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}