June 8, 2025 – June 14, 2025
Director of Opera and Assistant Professor of Vocal Music at Jackson State, Dr. Phyllis Lewis-Hale will host an NEA-funded Summer Opera South Bootcamp at Jackson State for twelve students from HBCUs. The group will begin rehearsals for the concert production of Jubilee: A Folk Opera. Four vocal students from Yale will also join the group along with pianist and composer Randy Klein; libretto writer Joan Ross Sorkin; and Dr. Albert Lee, an Associate Professor and Director of Equity, Belonging, and Student Life in the Yale School of Music.