DC Emancipation and the Right to Vote
April 6 - April 16
Join us for this workshop recital of a new opera composed by Ronald Trey Walton III. Presented by the Alliance for New Music-Theatre.
No story is more important, but still relatively unknown to the greater Washington community and the nation, than the story of DC Emancipation (nine months earlier than Lincoln’s Proclamation of 1863) to make DC the first in the nation to establish city-wide emancipation, including the first votes cast by African American men in Georgetown’s Rose Park, in the then richly populated Black Georgetown neighborhood. ANMT will share musical numbers from this work-in-progress. Experience first-hand the development process of a new work.
Performances on Sunday, April 6, at 3pm and Wednesday, April 16 at 7pm. Tickets available here.