Voodoo review – a lost Harlem Renaissance opera soars

Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York
Unheard for almost 90 years, an opera by Harry Lawrence Freeman, an African American composer compared to Wagner, was audacious and blazingly powerfulThe attention-grabbing potential of an “undiscovered masterpiece” is easy to understand. Given history’s penchant for doing certain artists dirty, the public can easily entertain the idea that our grasp of aesthetic history might be lacking. Still, after reading the advance hype around the latest